The 4K at up to 30 FPS uses the entire 7K Width of the Sensor, which 4K 60 FPS uses a 1.5x crop, which uses 4.6K and can use SD UHS II cards except one setting which needs a CFExpress Type A card. And it can record for more than hour without overheating!
The one big video issue is that unlike the III you can’t do 16 Bit RAW Video to an external recorder, in fact their is now RAW video, which is very unfortunate.
Still I would love this camera, but the video capabilities of the BlackMagic 6K Pro are superior, but it doesn’t have the still capabilities of this camera. My current still camera is non full frame DSLR the Canon 60 D, so I have lenses that would work for the Blackmagic, but this would be an amazing replacement.
The camera includes built in LiDAR focusing, which can be used with all the compatible lenses, autofocus and manual that work with the camera, and built in Wireless Transmission to multiple receivers at 20,000 ft, including a full wheel system. Both cameras have dual native iso, the 8K is 800/4000 and the 6K is 800/5000 and both have 113+ stops or more of Dynamic Range. And built in 9 stop ND filters! The lens work with interchangeable lens mounts, from DJI’s propriety DL mount, to Leica M mount.
With the built in LiDAR it can do ActiveTrack Pro for autofocus subject tracking and shows a LiDAR waveform for enhanced manual focus. The remote receives can also have full control of the camera for an operator. It can also shoot to CFexpress type b, external USB 3 or an internal DJI ProSSD. And it has built in microphones, plug 3.5mm and XLR microphone inputs. Also impressive are sensors on the bottom that help with balancing, though someone will have to make plates that have holes fro the sensors. And it can record in H.264 or ProRES or ProRES RAW.
Now the lenses are where I think this will be more of a purposeful camera vs a camera you shoot full features on, because it has limited lenses it is compatible with (and impressively you don’t have to do much to balance the cameras with these lenses). Here is the list of lenses in pdf form, there are currently 3 DJI DL lenses, 8 M Mount Leica lenses, 38 E mount with lenses from Sony, Tamron, Zeiss, Sigma, Voigtlander and Sirui. These are all pretty small lenses and not the lenses that pro cinematographers are going to want to use, but for certain situations this will be an impressive camera.
It is a beastly looking camera and a strange body. I am guessing you mostly use it with handles on both sides, but it can also work shoulder mounted.
It does seem expensive, but wait until we see how well this thing shoots. Actually I would like to see something much more in between this and the awesome DJI Pocket.
And that could mean a sub $1000 with lens, and with a $100 lens adapter you can use your EF and EF-S lenses. Wow, that would be really amazing.
Of course canon has really given up on amazing video in their cameras when they really started it in DSLR, so it likely wouldn’t be a video power house, but would really push full frame EOS-R as the standard. Maybe someday BlackMagic will update the EOS-R, letting you use R and EF and EF-S lenses.
I so want a BlackMagic 6K Pro. My Canon 60D just shoots such crappy video that my Osmo Pocket looks so much better even without things like lenses. And the fact that I have some canon lenses (though of course not the best glass) means I could have some glass to shoot with it.
And the tilting back screen and view finder really sell it for me if only I was making enough money.
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While I was working on an idea for a short film, I realized the footage I had wasn;t good enough, so I decided to do a test between my DJI OSmo+ and my DJI Osmo Pocket to see the difference in quality.
It turned out to be a huge difference. The Osmo+ with Z-Axis is much more stable, but the DJI Osmo Pocket is so much sharper. The image quality on the pocket is just so much better.
An interesting comparison, and I wish that the Pocket had a Z-Axis stabilizer, though it would be much harder because of all of the phone connected to it.
Not a video camera (though it will shoot 4K video), but a new type of camera, that offers features like the Lytro (being able to refocus an image after you take it) using new technology has been announced, the L16 from Light. I first red about it at RedShark News.
This is basically a flat camera body with 16 tiny lenses with different focal lengths and light sensitivity mounted sidways with 45 degree mirrors, and in any one photo 10 of the lenses fire and advanced computational power combines them to create an over 50 mega pixel image. And if you zoom with the touch screen, it fires more long lenses to create a zoomed image, and while everything will be in focus to begin with you can then refocus using their software.
Sounds like some very cool tech, thought a bit pricy at $1699 ($1299 if you pre-order with a $200 downpayment), and it does seem pretty large in all the videos. Not like a smart phone, but certainly smaller than a DSLR.
I will be very interested in seeing how this actually performs when it comes out!
