for nostalgic reasons, I want to produce a video with my beloved original BMPCC. Therefore I want to pair the camera with a JuicedLink BMC388 preamp. However, the manufacturer doesn't exist anymore and neither do the instructional videos on youtube. There are some tweaks that need to be done in order to make the BMPCC and BMC388 work flawlessly together. Audio meter calibration, input volume...

As all the manuals and instructional videos have vanished from the internet, maybe there's someone on this forum who is familiar with the procedure and can provide me with a short instruction?

I appreciate it! Thank you.

More info about the making of the film here: https://www.dominicjacksonfilms.com/polar

It is a drama comedy about substance abuse, mental health and not fitting in. If you enjoy it please share the link and please leave a review on IMDB and AMAZON we really need it as we hardly have any!

Thanks so much for your time if your get to watch it I hope you like it, it is available at higher resolution and without the stamp in the corner for a low cost, the money will be used to keep the film production moving forward and possibly making another feature!

It is on Reelhouse.org and Amazon UK and USA.

Thank so much hope you enjoy and please subscribe to us on youtube I will be making more videos about the making of Polar and other similar stuff.

Regards, Dom.

The Pocket 4k and the Zcam attract me for similar reasons.

4k Video up to 60p (160 for the zcam) Much higher dynamic range than my Em5 Mark II Options for recording to an external ssd Much better lowlight capabilities than my Em5 Lots of rigging options

I plan to rig either one with a handheld rig. So cage, monitor, handle and battery and get them up to a size that would be suitable for handheld shooting and could be quickly throw onto a tripod, or be reworked into a shoulder rig. I currently use 2 of the voigtlanders and will be focusing manually for everything so their AF abilities don't matter at all.

As far as I can tell the bmpcc 4k advantages are 12 bit raw up to 40k 60p bRAW 12:1 compression is small enough to go on standard sd cards and the quality is good enough for my uses. An SD card slot. Comes with the full version of Davinci 10,050 Chinese RMB

Bmpcc 4k cons battery life is terrible and needs an external to work for any period of time strange form factor 1080p raw and 1080p prores 61-120 fps is windowed at a 3.8x crop factor

and the Zcam 4k up to 120 with no crop and 160 with a slight crop Takes sony batteries which are cheap and easy to find No fans and block shape for easy modularity Can use phone or tablet as monitor with a usb C cable Supposedly more dynamic range than the bmpcc 4k but I haven't seen this demonstrated anywhere.

Cons- 15,000 Chinese rmb video is all 10 bit and no raw available yet (I know a firmware is in the works to introduce raw) No Sd card recording option No built in screen, so any setup needs either a monitor or a phone/tablet monitor.

I'm about to make about 22,000 rmb working on a documentary next week. Combined with my normal pay It would be enough for me to buy and rig out a BMPCC 4K with a monitor, cage, and battery. But the zcam is also really tempting with its 120p 4k mode. I think the black magic files would be more flexible and easier to edit and it also comes with davinci too!

For the same price as the Zcam body only I could probably buy the Bmpcc 4k, build a handheld rig with external power and a monitor and have enough left over to pick up a gimbal (second hand at least if not new). Is that the way to go? Or is the Zcam the way most people would lean?

Mefoto/Benro: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/926473-REG/benro_a2350q2k_2_series_travel_tripod_kit.html

Not to be confused with a ‘Stylized Look LUT’ – I created the BozBMDFilm_to_Rec709 Utility LUT out of a need to make my own color grading life easier when dealing with the Blackmagic BMCC / BMPCC Cinema Camera Film LOG and RAW files. And now I'm making it available to you.

Download Page: https://bulentozdemirfilms.wordpress.com/downloads/bmcc-bmpcc-bozbmdfilm-to-rec709-lut/

The LUT brings out the contrast and color values captured by the BMCC / BMPCC in Film or RAW mode and strives to preserve highlight and shadow detail [more examples can be found on the download page]

Though it's not free, I think the small asking price of £3.00GBP (approx $3.80USD) is enough to take a leap of faith on. Made a difference to my work flow as I’m sure it will with yours :)

Download Page: https://bulentozdemirfilms.wordpress.com/downloads/bmcc-bmpcc-bozbmdfilm-to-rec709-lut/

Thank you.

I'm selling my BMPCC Kit. It's in used but perfect working condition, the BMPCC was inside the Cage since day one. Everything comes with the original boxes.

Here is the package:

• 1x Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera incl. box & cables

• 1x Metabones Nikon G Speedbooster 0.58x incl. box

• 1x Viewfactor Contineo BMPCC Cage inkl. wooden grip

• 1x Quenox Nikon G to MFT adaptor

• 3x Batteries (1x original Blackmagic, 2x Patona)

• 1x Battery charger

Item is located in Germany. Asking price is 1200€ OBO. Willing to ship worldwide at buyers cost.

Three names come to mind to bring this lens production ready: Bernie O'Doherty in New York Edward Koehler in Germany Les Bosher in Wales.

Does anyone have other recommendations for engineers who can do this work?

TIA

SLR Magic Anamorphot 1,33 50
- 3 Diopters +1 +2 +3 Tiffen Series 9
- Adapter Ring for Series 9 tiffen filters 77mm
Price: 880 UK Pounds + Shipping

Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 ART - Nikon mount
Price:525 UK Pounds +Shipping

GoPro Hero 3 Black Edtion + Touch LCD
- Touch LCD
- 3 Extra Batteries
- 1 External Charger
- Chest and Head Strap
Price:370 UK Pounds + Shipping

-Will Ship internationally
-PayPal Payment

Thanks!

Additional accessories I'm interested in -- battery solution, viewfinder, and speedbooster/lens turbo. I deal primarily with Nikon lenses, but I can buy a cheap adapter if you have a different mount.

Today I get a video for the review with BMPCC and 3.5 inch EVF, new version to support BMPCC, HDMI input & output, with very

nice price.

The video is as below.

Is there anyone have this EVF? How about it working with BMPCC? Or someone have other monitors from this brand?? Thanks.

Here is a short we made a year & half ago and we just released. I hope you will like it. Please feel free to comment and share. Thank you in advance

Has anybody still that .dmg or .zip and can upload it for me to some file sharing platform please?

Cheers

Prices include shipping to EU (shipping from Croatia).

The Pocket is only $500 USD / £390 UKP this summer (very limited availability, buy now!) .

Frame Sync is the big problem:

Syncing two cams for 3D cannot be done in post - they need to be synced at the pixel level, ie. each camera should begin each frame at exactly the same time. In other words, this is a fractional-frame problem; but you can only correct whole frames in post (not counting pixel interpolators like Twixtor which can cause unacceptable artifacts in 3D).

Pro cameras are synced with 'Genlock' - basically a connection between the two cameras that tightly synchronises frame capture. Without this, the cameras have a random gap between frame starts, anywhere up to 1/2 frame. So if you shoot 24p, the cameras will be randomly out up to 1/48th of a second, and you have no way to predict what that error will be at any given time. In 3D this is catastrophic, at least if there is any significant motion in the frame. The delay pushes moving objects forwards or backwards in 3D, and can also cause a weird shimmering effect. And forget high motion which looks awful.

Solutions:

1) hardware mod: do true genlocking by linking the cameras' capture timers or master clocks somehow at the circuit board level). This is perfect, but tricky/risky and requires skill and experience.

2) Simul-power workaround (this is what we use on the Panny GHs, and works on many others): you power-up both cameras at exactly the same time (usually with external power and a dual-switch or a custom circuit). Many cameras synchronize their frame capture from a global running clock, which is initialised at boot and never changes. So it doesn't actually matter when you trigger record - the first frame capture is always locked to that clock (ie. it waits for the next frame 'slot' before starting recording). By simul-powering the bodies, those clocks start in sync on both bodies and frames are synced.

we don't know if this works on the Pocket yet.

Downside: as no two digital clocks run at exactly the same speed, the bodies slowly drift out of sync. How fast depends on how closely matched the bodies are - people usually try to get consecutive serial nos., hoping that the eletronics components are likely from the same batch and so a close match. My badly matched (2 month apart) GH2's are good for about 4-5 mins before the drift becomes bad. Apparently some drift far less. So you have to keep power-cycling.

Problem: The Pocket only powers up when a button is pressed ('soft' power). It needs to power instantly as soon as external juice is on (one idea, permanently tape the power button down - does it work?).

3) LANC. The Pocket apparently responds to the LANC 'record' command (but not power cmds). If we're really lucky and this resets the frame capture timers (unlikely), it might be enough.

4) Firmware:

If the capture timers are NOT reset by capture start, BMD could add this to a firmware update. Then LANC-initiated record would always start in sync (subject to gradual drift) - much nicer than having to power-cycle all the time. This might be super-easy for BMD to do.

Of course some kind of true hardware sync option (maybe via the USB or LANC ports) would be best! BMD could probably do it if they wanted to - contact them if you want this: http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/uk/support (without demand it's unlikely to happen):

Exposure / Zoom sync:

Frame sync is the most important, but it would also be much nicer if exposure (iris, ISO, shutter-speed), focus etc settings could also be synchronised, ideally in real-time (one body acts as master, one as slave). Firmware or LANC command additions could do this.

With the pocket's small size, ultra-light and compact SBS (side-by-side) 3D rigs are possible. With 'body stacking', you can even get the lenses as close as around 70mm! With Speedboosters and fast lenses you can do lowlight and shoot wide (my target), and you have 10bit ProRes and 12bit RAW. Let's make it happen!

Operators can attach different accessories required to make video production to the cage with a variety of accessory mounting threads.

Check it out here to know more about MOZA camera cage

Great for M4/3 cameras.

It's basically a box with a medium format mount on the front and some ground glass and a Black Magic Pocket Cinema Camera inside. This is a gross oversimplification of the design, but those are the broad strokes. It also has 6 stops of internal ND. Although the camera is not capturing as many pixels as some of the higher budget large sensor offerings, I find the larger format visually pleasing.

Another link to some colored footage:

I'm moving overseas so I'm selling off a load of my gear.

BMPCC including dual charger and 4 batteries - £450

Viewfactor cage with DIY cable grip - £35

External battery solution with 2x batteries and charger - £30

Hoodman loupe with magnifier and DIY bracket - £40

Metabones speedbooster Nikon to bmpcc - £260

Tamron adaptall 24mm f2.5 Nikon mount - £40

Tamron 35-70mm f3.5 Nikon mount - £30

Tokina 17mm f3.5 Nikon mount - £100

Vivitar 17mm f3.5 (Tokina made) Pentax mount but comes with m43 adapter - £30

Nikon 50mm f1.8 AFD - £40

Canon 50D + grip, 6 batteries, charger, 64gb Komputerbay card - £250

Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 Canon EFS - £85

Moller Anamorphot 32/2x - £100

UK buyers only please, all prices include UK mainland P&P

Many thanks

1) What cameras can do both, fast fps and high DR?

2) Is there someone with such a camera in the Weilheim/Munich (Germany) area willing to help me out with his camera, lenses and technical knowledge (1-2 afternoons, arround sunset)?

I think one possible camera would be the Sony FS-700, but its expensive and even renting it is not cheap (as I have no experience with it, I will need additional time to learn its setups). Any thoughts on that one?

The GH4 can do 96fps, which is just enough (and I could use my m4/3 lenses) - but what about its DR?

I have for sale the following:

BMPCC ---- 650.00 comes with 5 batteries

Metabones BMPCC Speedbooster Nikon mount( Only 3 weeks old ) ----- 430.00

Metabones MFT to NIKON adapter ( Only 3 weeks old ) ---- 120.00

Kinotehnik LCDVF BM for BMPCC ------ 120.00

Ohrwurm 3 BMPCC microphone ( IMO the best minimalist pocket audio tool ) --- 125.00

Wooden Camera BMPCC cage w/ speedbooster foot support ( Only 3 weeks old ) -------- 85.00

RedRock Micro RetroFlex Handle with lanc ( Only 3 weeks old ) -------- 160.00

If someone was interested in the complete setup, 1600.00 for everything. ( Great Deal )

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Blackmagic-Pocket-Cinema-Camera-BMPCC-2-Sandisk-95-Cards-2-Extra-Batteries-/131447277255

"Bought this camera new from B&H last year, and only used on one music video project. Everything originally included with the camera is included in this auction.

This auction includes the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera in pristine condition and all accessories from when purchased, plus (2) Sandisk 95MB/s memory cards needed to shoot RAW Video, plus (2) EXTRA batteries purchased for the camera. Finally Camera extended Warranty SquareTrade included still has 1 year left, receipt included.

INCLUDED:

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera Body 12V AC Adapter Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery (EN-EL20) SD Card w/ User Manual and Camera Utility Software Dust Cap Wrist Strap

EXTRAS INCLUDED: 2X Sandisk 95MB/s Memory Cards 2x Watson Rechargeable Lithium Ion Batteries (EN-EL20) 1 Year Extended Warranty Left

Everything functions perfectly and is in like new condition.

Recording media is included.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask"