Posts Tagged ‘BMPC’

We like asking Kickstarter entrepreneurs what kind of market research they do when planning new products, and that got us thinking about the process used by the big boys – and our own recent survey on DSLR top features. [adrotate group="6"] Back in September we…

There are a lot of camera tests available online and it is hard to always find the cameras you want compared to the cameras you are interested in seeing.  If you are like me you are a little skeptical as to how much you can…

A very cool company with an unorthodox approach chats with planet5D about customer-centricity, workflow, 4K -- and that wild but short-lived Pocket Cinema Camera promotion. We recently had a chance to spend an hour with Bob Caniglia, Senior Regional Manager, Eastern North America for Blackmagic…

Blackmagic Design has upped the ante once again with the latest version of its Blackmagic firmware, this time for the Blackmagic Pocket Camera (BMPC) and Blackmagic Cinema Camera (BMCC). [adrotate group="6"] We now have three of the most asked-for features in both cameras – audio…

Ever get annoyed and anxious as the mini-HDMI or mini-USB port on your camera becomes looser and looser – and you just KNOW the connection is going to become unreliable sometime very soon?[adrotate group="6"] Me too. Good to know, then, that the team over at…

Blackmagic Camera Update 1.8 is now available for download free of charge and updates all Blackmagic Design cameras including the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera (BMPCC), the 2.5K Blackmagic Cinema Camera (BCC) and the Blackmagic Production Camera 4K (BPC). [adrotate group="6"]This update is based on a…

My friend Michael Artsis (you've read about him before on planet5D and he was my co-host at NAB in the Teradek booth doing the planet5D daily wrapup show) has used the BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera to shoot a commercial with RAW video and has sent…

How good are you at spotting the looks of the three Blackmagic cameras? Hint: all three (Blackmagic Design Production Camera 4K, Blackmagic Cinema Camera, and the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera) were used in the making of this music video.[adrotate group="6"] Dave Murray (Director/Editor) and DP…

The "Best DSLR Lens in the World" is, according to DxOMark, the Zeiss 55mm f/1.4 Otus Distagon T*. Filmmaker James Miller mounts the Otus 1.4/55 [adrotate group="6"]on two heavyweight cameras, to see which is the better - the Canon EOS 1D C and the Blackmagic…

If put into a death match cage, does the BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera or the Blackmagic 4k Production Camera come out the winner?[adrotate group="6"] That’s the question Emmanuel Sapolsky posed and then answered when he took his brand new Blackmagic 4k Production Camera out and…