Blackmagic Design Pushes Cinema Camera Release, New Footage Available

  • Engadget reports that the release of the 12-bit RAW Blackmagic Cinema Camera has been delayed.
  • “The camera is ‘in the final stages of Thunderbolt certification and internal testing’ and manufacturing will follow as soon as that’s done — probably in the second week of August,” according to the post. “It will still hit the market with the $2,995 price tag, Canon lens mount, 15.6 x 8 mm sensor and built-in SSD recorder intact.”
  • The company also claims to have identified the cause of aliasing previously reported and has posted new videos to back up the claim.
  • As noted during NAB, the new Cinema Camera touts a 2.5K sensor with the ability to capture film quality video.
  • According to Blackmagic Design’s April press release: “One of the most important features of the camera is its super wide dynamic range of 13 stops, allowing feature film quality images. Commonly people focus on more pixels, however often this just creates a higher resolution, but still ‘video’ looking images that suffer from highlight and black clipping that limits details. Blackmagic Cinema Camera’s wide dynamic range eliminates this problem and provides film quality with dramatically more detail retained in black and whites in the image.”
  • For those interested in the camera’s capabilities, check out the videos recently shot by DP John Brawley.

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