UK Sandisk Extreme Pro 64GB headsup: £65 Play->"Pixel Electronics" - can't vouch but have ordered, will report back

Just got the cards, seem fine, pass h2testw1.4 and bench near enough:

CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo

Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/

• MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

     Sequential Read :    92.877 MB/s
    Sequential Write :    87.294 MB/s
   Random Read 512KB :    78.512 MB/s
  Random Write 512KB :    65.992 MB/s
  

  Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 5.246 MB/s [ 1280.6 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 2.065 MB/s [ 504.2 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 4.853 MB/s [ 1184.7 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.932 MB/s [ 471.6 IOPS]

  Test : 1000 MB [Y: 0.0% (0.0/59.4 GB)] (x5) Date : 2014/09/30 12:08:34 OS : Windows 8.1 [6.3 Build 9600] (x64)

Any LANC controller is not doing anything but start/stop on the BM cameras - everything else is useless anyway.

Would be useful if someone had an electrical scheme, which I suppose it's very simple, of that lanc start-stop connection to the Black Magic.

I know that the preamp on the bmpcc is poor, but I was wondering if it would be okay recording audio with an external preamp. Here is a test of the internal audio of the bmpcc connected to a preamp and the rode videomic. It's not an ideal test, because I had some room noise, but I think the constant hiss from the bmpcc internal audio is obvious at every setting. When I switch to an external recorder, the hiss is gone.

@valdi99 v. useful, thanks.

@DocoDocoMan can you please give some more insight with your knowledge about the BMPCC and lanc control?

1) How fast is focus? 2) Can you move the focus by small increments or only to min./max. range?

3) How fast is iris? 4) How many steps between full iris stops?

And most important: How did you built your lanc control?

"City of God" production company O2 shooting a TV series with the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/pressdetails?releaseID=62016

Pocket was used in the long list of cameras of "Avengers- Age of Ultron" shooting ProRes: http://hybridcamerarevolution.blogspot.com.br/2014/10/blackmagic-pocket-cinema-camera-d-cam.html

Note, the above video by mikelinn is a partisan pro life anti abortion film. Be warned.

Kamerar QV-1 viewfinder that fits BMPCC.

Here is my discovery regarding BMPCC with QV-1 viewfinder. After mounting the QV-1, you realize that the frame is positioned too much toward left edge of the BMPCC LCD screen. So you can’t see part of the screen by the right edge, especially battery power expressed in %, the end of volume meters etc. Adjusting its position doesn't help, but here is the trick to make QV-1 work much better with BMPCC:

• all you need to do is to unscrew 2 of 3 screws at the bottom part of the viewfinder mount. But only those 2 on both edges (DON’T disassemble what holds the middle screw). Take out this part, turn it upside down, then screw it back where it was (see picture attached). After turning upside down this part (which holds a tiny, non-symetrical thing, that clips into the magnetic socket of a baseplate) it will allow you to adjust position of the QV-1 much more to the right, so it covers almost perfectly whole BMPCC screen (except 2-3mm on both sides). So the QV-1 can be positioned properly horizontally in relation to the LCD screen of BMPCC. Vertical adjustment also possible. So now you can see everything on the BMPCC screen. Not bad as for 70$ swivel viewfinder, well made ,with really good optic, diopter correction etc.