Blackmagic Pocket Camera Review Part 2: The real world from Philip Bloom Reviews & Tutorials on Vimeo.
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Phillip Bloom posted Part 1 and Part 2 of the Blackmagic Pocket Camera review (Click here). Final Conclusion will be posted by Philip soon! By the way Philip, if you read this next time call me when you are in Venice. I am very close to you now 🙂
And what about the Blooming Issue? At Blackmagic Forum there is an official BM statement:
Hi guys,
As promised, here’s an update on the ‘blooming’ sensor topic.
All sensors, be it CCD or CMOS, will have a ‘blooming’ effect when during severe overexposure, the pixel is over saturated and excessive charges overflow to neighbouring pixels. It just looks different depending on the sensor type.
We are not seeing this on some of our test cameras so it might be something that is calibration related. Please contact your nearest support office and we’ll run another calibration on the camera.
regards
Kristian Lam
Blackmagic Design
That’s great news! P.S.: Link found via Slashcam.de (Thanks!).
P.S.: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema preorders in USA at Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and in Germany at Technikdirekt, in France at pbs-video. In Sweden at macoteket, scandinavianphoto, protel.jetshop, webhallen.
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Admin, I’m in Venice for the Film Festival, are you still around? 🙂
Disaster.
Why disaster?
Guessing he’s talking about the sensor issues.
I love the rendering of BM cameras…..
I know! It is absolutely gorgeous!
It is likely a sensor hardware issue. Fuji’s X10 had the same issue and the official fix required a sensor replacement.
Not a good news about blooming..
” it might be something that is calibration related… ”
They still have no idea..
And there’s no answer which say they will fix it. They think it’s “something” caused by a general “setting”, just to modify and that’s it. I don’t think the same.
They are in denial and don’t want to go to the expense of replacing the sensor.
Probably true.
I also don’t believe this calibration thing. Calibrate what? Should a firmware update be good enough to re-calibrate? Why sending back to a service centre? Where are these service centres by the way? I’ve just cancelled my order. Very disappointed after months of wait.
I agree, no good news at all.
The Pocket customers are going crazy! BM statement is nothing, nobody seems to believe a recalibration will solve the bloom effect. People are cancelling pre-orders and returning their cameras. Time will tell but I see hard times for Blackmagic Design if they keep this approach… http://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12250
I’d Imagine they don’t enjoy being called “BM”?
Not even Blackmagic users would know what BM means. Come on it’s not like they’re FB. 😉
Read Philip’s review and looked at the nicely shot videos.
In my view, this camera is a not-ready-for-market product, rushed with great promise. And delivery subpar results.
Not for me.
At last μ43! at last decent imaging company to choose from instead of a TV maker or a over the hill company owned and run by a bunch of dishonest corporate crooks!!!
Wow, that auto-focus with the 14-140………I was under the assumption that auto-focus would work just as well as an Olympus or Panasonic camera. As it stands it would be 10 times faster to just focus manually. Right now the GH2 or GH3 still seems like a better option. The footage dose look damn nice though. So much potential, just not quite there as a complete product. Bummer 🙁
The camera is designed for pro filmmaker use so they will not be interested in AF anyway.
True. I never use auto focus for video. I guess really the active mount is just for image stabilization.
Which again, I would use a tripod or a stabilizing rig instead. So no point in active mount at all really.
Oh aperture.
Quality issues?
http://cheesycam.com/whats-going-on-with-this-blackmagic-pocket-cinema-camera/
Thanks for the link.
does the name “black magic” refer to the black highlights? :+ 😛
Philip Bloom have Blooming issues, it’s quite funny 🙂 🙂
I posted last week on the blooming issue. Check out my web site the article is called Bad blooming. http://aronjanderson.com/
@14:36 did he say “complete utter guest work?” Term guest work? Is this a common term for cr*p or did I hear it wrong?
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