Posts Tagged ‘BMPCC’

Ryan Avery of movie industry supplier Veydra announced the addition of an 85mm T/2.2 MFT (aka M43) purpose-built cinema prime lens to its formerly 5-strong mini ciné lens line-up this week. He also revealed that a 10mm wide-angle is in development and will appear late…

Ryan Avery of movie product distributor Convergence Products and now Veydra has launched a KickStarter project to make the Veydra Mini Primes, a set of dedicated prime optics for movie cameras like the Panasonic Lumix GH4 and Blackmagic Design’s Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera according to…

Thanks to planet5D reader Leon Benzakein for alerting us to Paris Through Pentax. And kudos to Petapixel for getting more details directly from the filmmakers. [adrotate group="6"] The Pentax 6x7 is a legendary camera. Paris is a legendary city. The two are brought together lovingly –…

Recently, Blackmagic has been getting some heat from customers because they continue to release new products, but in the eyes of existing customers, they are feeling a bit left out as there are still issues with the current firmware versions on existing products.[adrotate group="6"] Blackmagic…

planet5D is partnering with nextwaveDV.com to bring you coverage from the NAB 2014 show floor. We’ve worked with Tony and Sean for years and they do an excellent job of providing quality interviews from NAB and we’re thrilled to be sharing their show floor interviews…

I get a lot of questions about HDMI and locking the cables to the camera - so it is good to see lockCircle creating a solution for the BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera[adrotate group="6"] LockPort Pocket by LockCircle From LockCircle Press: The LockPort Pocket is a…

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…

Like shooting with a smart phone, the size of the Blackmagic Pocket Camera is a good news/bad news scenario. Small, light and super-portable means you can fit it into cars, narrow spaces, and get the shots. Tight spaces also increase the risk of knocking against…

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…

The most challenging part of making videos, in my opinion, is capturing high quality audio. Shooting with many cameras is made more challenging when there are no XLR inputs (balanced audio with reliable connections) like on many DSLRs, which have lousy preamps. Recording to an…