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This is still smaller than the Super35 standard used in the Ursa Mini Pro, Canon’s Cinema EOS line, and most other high-end cinema cameras, but it punches above its weight. It can shoot UltraHD (3,840 x 2,160) and DCI (4,096 x 2,160) resolutions at 24, 30, and 60 frames per second. Aware of these drawbacks, Blackmagic Design developed its own RAW format. While not yet available for the Pocket Cinema Camera 4K, Ursa Mini Pro users have had access to it for a few months now, and the reports we’ve seen are incredibly positive. Blackmagic RAW’s goal is to deliver the quality and flexibility of a RAW file with the smaller storage requirements of ProRes, all while making it much less taxing on your computer compared to CinemaDNG. Basil Kronfli is a freelance technology journalist, consultant, and content creator.
Video quality
A director can just as easily view footage from the side as the rear. And there will often be a larger display on the camera or on set anyway. It’s not a run-and-gun kind of camera but a tool for carefully prepared shots from a tripod, gimbal, or drone.
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Ports
The EF model lets customers use high quality photographic lenses customers already own from DSLRs or even Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Cameras. Or the PL model lets customers work with professional cinema lenses from Zeiss, ARRI, Cooke and more without needing an adapter. The Pyxis captures to CFexpress cards or outputs over USB-C to an external SSD or over Ethernet.
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Once again, Black Magic has delivered what their customers have asked for, and at a price we can afford. That’s true, but I guess almost everyone will add a bigger monitor and/or viewfinder anyway. I know I would not be confident focusing and framing something important (that other people depend on) on a 4-inch screen. Due to 3, above, the camera operator and director will often be different people.
Storage media
We did run into some shadow noise in some situations, particularly after brightening the image in post, but this is to be expected and certainly wasn’t worse than what we’ve seen from other cameras. Still, Blackmagic Design has blended together excellent hardware, high quality filetypes, and a beautiful user interface that make this an attractive camera for a variety of video shooters, from students to working pros. On the subject of storage, the Pocket Cinema Camera 4K features one SDXC card slot and a CFast 2.0 slot, with the latter being the only current card type that can support RAW 4K filming. Shipping with a license for DaVinci Resolve Studio, a $299 (£239) piece of software that gives you 4K editing makes the Pocket Cinema Camera incredibly appealing to amateur enthusiasts and first time film camera buyers. Another consideration, especially for anyone coming from systems with more aggressive compression like Canon’s photography line is storage. We tried shooting RAW and the range of detail we could pull out was even better than ProRes, but the file sizes and additions to processing time meant for our needs, it wasn’t worth it despite the tangible benefits.
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This price point gives you access to some of the most all-round capable cameras available. Excellent image quality, powerful autofocus and great looking video are the least you can expect. Blackmagic PYXIS supports the optional Blackmagic URSA Cine EVF to make outdoors and handheld shooting accurate and easy. Customers get an integrated high quality 1920 x 1080 color OLED display with built in proximity sensor, 4 element glass diopter for incredible accuracy with a wide focus adjustment.
Autofocus and battery woes
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Based on Adobe’s DNG (digital negative) format for still photography, CinemaDNG is kind of a hack job — essentially, it stores every video frame as an individual image file and doesn’t support video-specific metadata. That said, it always comes back to bang for buck with the Pocket Cinema Camera 4K. Alternatively, you can charge the camera using its USB-C port. While it won’t power the camera live when out shooting, if you have a reasonably new Android phone, you could at least leave the house with just one charger. What's more, the USB port also enables external recording in compressed formats, so you can connect a USB portable SSD for additional storage capacity.
In addition, and probably the most unforgivable thing about the Pocket Cinema Camera 4K - it can die without warning. You can be on a shoot, happily filming with what looks like a quarter of the battery meter full, only to have the camera power down and take the footage you were capturing with it. This should be addressable in a software update, and we really hope Blackmagic is able to do something about it.
We’ve seldom reviewed a product that has so many positives, from value for money right through to features. In turn, while the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K is definitely not perfect, with stunning 4K capture and a comprehensive array of connections, its pros heavily outweigh its cons. With similar goals to its standalone Ninja monitors/recorders, the Phone Ninja connects a camera's HDMI out to a compatible iPhone for live view, recording, live streaming and file transfer.
So it doesn’t matter much that it can’t be controlled from the shoulder. Even for reviewing captured material, it would be awkward to hold the camera like that, especially if it's rigged for shoulder mount. The Pyxis includes a series of mounting points and comes in a choice of three lens mounts, now including the Leica L mount. In use, a 40-minute battery life means that, on top of needing to swap out the media often, you’ll also need to replace the battery quite frequently. This is a very well-built machine and there is little to worry about mechanically as there are so few moving parts. Blackmagic Design has already demonstrated a willingness to keep the camera fresh with firmware updates, as well, as we have seen with the announcement of the upcoming Blackmagic RAW format.
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