So most of you will have seen that we lost J.K. Growling, our little 4 year old Shar Pei last week. Well I made this video as a little memoriam of her life. It is in the format of a second line starting off sad, and then a celebration of her life.I do not have the rights to the music, the songs are Just A Closer Walk With Thee and You Are My Sunshine by The Treme Brass Brand, all rights reserved.
Blackmagic has replaced it’s Ultrastudio 4K with the Ultrastudio 4K mini, for the same price of $995 with an upgrade from Thunderbolt 2 to 3, and a headphone jack with volume, an sd slot and a usb port as well moving from 6GB SDI to 12GB and a much smaler form factor!Damn! I want one! I have an Ultrastudio 4K, and while a powerful machine, I mean it plays back anything I send to it, but it is thunderbolt 2 (so requires a thunderbolt 2 to 3 adapter) and it gets hot, I mean real hot, and it’s fans are so loud! It is painfully loud!Too bad their isn’t an upgrade path!
So Blackmagic surprised everyone and announced the new Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 6K camera, which has a Super 35mm Sensor and an EOS lens mount. The sensor is an impressive 6144x3456 sensor, and the Super 35mm means aps-c size which means a 1.6x crop factor vs the 2x crop of the 4K mft version. And it is $2495 vs $1295, but doesn’t need a Speed Booster, which would have fixed the crop factor, and increased the lens speed, but also added more glass between the sensor and lens.Now the camera will eat more battery than the already battery eating 4k (That it turns out is why they made the battery grip). And the new camera only shoots ProRes in 4k and UHD, saving BRAW for 6k. And the current manual only lists 4k speeds for drives and Cfast cards.For someone with EF lenses this is a dream camera, if only I could afford it right now!