What you see here on top is a frame from a video shot with the [shoplink 49834 ebay]Micro Four Thirds BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera[/shoplink] sent with a ballon on the space frontier! The lens Keisuke Iwaya used to shoot this is the [shoplink 49835 ebay]Panasonic Lumix G Vario 7-14mm f/4.0[/shoplink]. The video can be seen here:
Fusen Ucyu – BMPCC GOES TO SPACE from Raitank on Vimeo.
Keisuke writes:
“Fusen Ucyu (Baloon Space) Project” is a young ambitious amateur astrophysicist, Keisuke Iwaya’s private mission to send various cameras up to space beyond the earth’s atmosphere with Meteorological balloons to shoot beautiful images of our blue planet.
On 20th of July, 2014, Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera was sent up for the first time with Atomos NinjaStar, with 128GB CFast card, to capture the whole two-hour-long journey from the ground to 28.5km (17.7mile) peak at stratosphere, and free-fall back to the Mother Earth.
Newshooter writes:
Going into space was going to push the camera to its absolute limits. The BMPCC is only rated to work in temperatures between 0-40c. The camera also had to free fall for 30 minutes and then survive the impact once it came back to earth. The team designed several features that enabled all the equipment to return intact and operational.
The amazing pictures of the tools they used can be seen at raitank.jp/archives/18184. What a great project!
34 Responses
Yet again, seeing the work being done with this equipment trumps all other things.
Superb (if a little dizzying during the descent).
awesome
Interesting how they used a Ninja Star and choose ProRes 422, I suppose because of how long they were recording for.
Fascinating video!
“What you see here on top is a frame from a video shot with the Micro Four Thirds BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera” – The BMPPC is not MFT! Have MTF mount, but the sensor is smaller. It’s about 1″, like the Sony RX100. In fact it have a 3x crop factor compared to 135 format (like RX100). And not 2x.
if it has a native mft mount i would classify as as a mft camera.
Not at all. APS-C Canon and Nikon cameras have the same FF mount. But they aren’t FF cameras. MFT is referred to the size of the sensor.
no i prefer to use the mount as reference as you will mostly use the native lenses made for that mount on it . I prefer to mention the sensor if its matched with the mount. Not using it as the only factor.
So the BMC with EF mount is a Full Frame camera!!! It has Full frame mount.
i give up…i give UP!
No m43 system is a reference to the mount. The sensor is a 43 sensor!
A mistake many people make.
Meant to say the sensor in a m43 camera is 43rds!
In this case (BMPCC) the sensor used is not a real 43sensor it’s a super 16 sensor but it does have an active m43 mount!!!
So The BMC is a Full Frame camera? It uses EF mount!!!! Wow! And what about the BMPC with PL mount?
You make it more complex because now you start talking about other mounts. why make things more complex then it is? lol
Because neither in their own site, Blackmagic call a BMPCC as MTF film camera. But s16mm camera with active MTF mount. BMC has two type of mount. MTF an EF. So.. Is BMC a MTF camera.. or a FF camera? Well.. Super35mm. No MTF nor FF. It’s a s35mm camera. Like the BMPCC camera is a super 16mm camera and not a MTF.. Micro four third.. m 4/3. Four and three. But it record at 16/9. Its sensor have 16:9 aspect ratio, not 4:3. There is no sense to call MTF this camera.
you know what? you win! lol
What kind of drugs are you on and may I have some? 😀
Because there are plenty of EF cameras which are not FF.
But you call it FF camera? A D7000 is a FF camera? No!!! Like the BMPCC that is a Super 16mm film camera, with use MTF mount. But it is not a MTF camera. It’s a s16mm camera.
Nikon shows how you can have a mount and more than one sensor size with it: DX & FX.
Same with m4/3 mount, you’ve got more than one sensor size that goes wth it.
Mount mount mount!!! But when you talk about a camera you say the size. I don’t say.. hey guy, i bought the new Full Frame 7DmkII!!! It can MOUNT Full frame lens right? But i0mg going to say: i bought the new APS-C canon camera!!! Do you?
Just admit it, with the growth of the m4/3 system (yay! That is a *good* thing), then “m4/3″ means more than just the sensor size of 4/3″ (oh, did you see that there? m4/3 isn’t the sensor size…. 4/3” is! Game, set, match).
Good, someone got it right!
I’m using drugs, but tell me where Blackmagic design ever called their own product MTF camera and not Super 16mm film camera!!!!
Who cares how you’d like to call it…
Well. not to me but if we want to use the right terms… we should use the right words. And a BMCPP is a super 16mm camera. Not a MTF, not a FF, not a super 35mm. Let’s call everything with random names!!! And check out the Blackmagic site! They call it “super 16mm camera”… Black magic! And not MTF Camera. Like a GH4 (with MTF sensor). Try to use a Metabones adaptor for BMCPP to a MTF camera.. have a good luck. Metabones also created different products for BMPCC and MTF cameras. So better give them the right name.
Oh what kind of BS are you on…. I use a normal Nikon G to m4/3 focal reducer on my BMPCC just fine.
And Blackmagic Design do indeed call it a m4/3 camera.
No… they call it Super 16mm film camera! Check the site! The mount is a MTF. But by sayng: Micro four third blackmagic pocket cinema camera… seems to have a GH4 like. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products and telll me how they call it.
A camera can be m4/3 *AND* S16.
A camera could be S16mm with m4/3 mount!! That it’s different. As an APS-C that is a APS-C with the possibility to use also FF lens. But when you talk about a APS-C camera are you going to talk about FF camera? If i’m going to tell you about a new MFT camera… are you going to imagine a camera with about 1.5″ sensor? Or about a camera with 1″ sensor (that is not 4/3 format?). So a camera can be APS-C *AND* FX? Let’s tell me how Blackmagic design call their own product!!! I have linked the page.
Once more, the GH4 does not have a M43 sensor, it has a “four thirds” sensor. M43 is just the lens mount.
The GH4 like the other Panny and Ollie cameras has a “four thirds” sensor and uses a “micro four thirds” lens mount system. M43 is the name of the lens mount, not the sensor. Any camera that uses a M43 lens mount can be described as M43 whatever sensor it uses.
It is confusing because the Olympus and Panasonic cameras have a “`four-thirds” sensor but “micro four thirds” is the name of the lens mount system which Black Magic also use with their smaller sensor.
In fact BMD corp. never calls this camera “MTF camera” but Super16mm camera. And now it’s the FIRST time i read that! You don’t say.. I got the new EF-S Canon camera.. but APS-C Camera. Reading MTF camera, everyone imagines a camera with FT sensor. Not a smaller sensor that have its own name (s16mm). And this is wrong. I always heard 35mm camera, 6×6 camera, medium format camera, super 8mm film camera. NEVER heard calling a camera by their mounting system! This is weird, but seem normal reading many comments here… and just here!!! And due to MFT is generally used to indicate the FT sensor, but in a mirrorless system, someone reading micro four third BMPCC can image that this camera have a sensor like a GH4 or the Blackmagic Camera. Be honest!! If you never heard about a BMPCC before, and you read “Micro Four Thirds BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera”, what are you going to thinking? About the sensor or about JUST the mounting system with the sensor of another size (random?)? And if you read.. Super 16mm film camera (maybe with MFT mount) as BMD call it in their site? I hope to be clear. So it’s correct call it MFT camera?
awesome indeed, did they expect it to drop back within Japan? Would kinda waisted if it got lost somewhere in one of the oceans. Good advertisement for BlackMagic too I guess 🙂