This really came totally unexpected. Blackmagic announced a pocket sized MFT mount camera with Super 16 sensor. It is a sort of very compact cinema camera with “13 stops dynamic range, Super 16 sized 1080 HD sensor, SD card recorder, high resolution LCD, ProRes and lossless CinemaDNG RAW recording, active Micro Four Thirds Lens compatibility, and micro HDMi monitoring with overlays.”
Now filmmaker can have a super camcorder in their pocket! Amazing work done by Blackmagic!
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8 days late with this one? I suppose its still April. If this is real you have just blown my bollocks off!
Although they would have had to engineer an electronic mount otherwise that Lumix lens wouldn’t work.
They’re members of the m4/3 consortium and should have full access to the technical details needed to do an electronic mount.
Just seen the images of the banners this was taken from: https://twitter.com/danielogarcia1/status/321090242746654721/photo/1
Looks legit!
Very small video cameras handheld means very jerky and unpleasant video.
@Mike
Really? Have you actually tried this camera or are you talking out your backside?
There is a better shot of the banner here: http://i.imgur.com/oBQhpza.jpg
I’m at NAB this week and I’ll check out their booth and see for myself.
Any questions you guys want to have asked? Now is the chance. 😉
M4/3 system but Super 16 sensor… no wide-angle then? What’s the crop factor/focal length multiplier? Really like Blackmagic’s gusto, excited to see when this can be released, they’re making giant strides into hardware and making Canon’s R&D look foolish whilst they’re at it.
@Tobias W. native sensor ISO and total MP would be nice to know, I’m sure that they’ll come out soon enough though. Perhaps just a pat on the back and let us know if the LCD is articulating.
Cheers.
I think super 16 is about as wide as four thirds but a lot shorther. So you can get very good wide lenses for this, like the Olympus 7-14 mm f/4.0, but only use the central wide area of it.