Adding item to the basket... 09 August 2019
Fremont, CA, USA – Thursday, 8 August 2019 – Blackmagic Design today announced the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K, a new handheld digital film camera with a full Super 35 size 6K HDR image sensor, 13 stops of dynamic range, an EF lens mount and dual native ISO up to 25,600 for incredible low light performance. This new model builds on the popularity of the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K but has a larger Super 35 sensor with 6K resolution, allowing higher image quality. The EF lens mount works with a wide range of lenses from companies such as Canon, Zeiss, Sigma and Schneider.
• For independent films, documentaries, blogs and more
• Manufactured from carbon fibre polycarbonate composite
• Multifunction grip allows single hand operation
• Compatible with MFT or EF lens mounts
• Wide 13 stops of dynamic range for filmic look
• Up to 25,600 ISO for incredible low light performance
• Records full resolution up to 60 fps or 120 fps windowed
• Standard open file formats compatible with popular software
• Built in UHS-II SD and CFast card recorders
• Incredible quality Blackmagic RAW recording
• Built in 5" touchscreen allows accurate focus when shooting 6K
• Blackmagic OS as used in URSA Mini and URSA broadcast cameras
• Includes Blackmagic Generation 4 Colour Science
• Features full size HDMI for monitoring with status overlay
• Professional mini XLR input with 48-volt phantom power
• 3D LUTs can be applied for both monitoring and recording
• USB-C port allows recording directly to external disk
• Built-in timecode generator for sync multi-camera shoots
• Supports still frame capture at up to 21.2 megapixels
• Localized for 11 popular languages
• Supports remote camera control via Bluetooth
• Powers via 12V DC input and can recharge via USB-C
• Includes full DaVinci Resolve Studio for post-production.
The elegant design of the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera packs an incredible number of high-end digital film features into a miniaturised, handheld design. Made from lightweight carbon fibre polycarbonate composite, the camera features a multifunction handgrip with controls for ISO, WB and shutter angle – right at your fingertips. Because it's an advanced digital film camera, the sensor is designed to reduce thermal noise allowing cleaner shadows and higher ISO valules. Plus, the large 5-inch LCD makes it possible to get perfect focus at 4K and 6K resolutions.
Featuring a larger 6144 x 3456 Super 35 sensor and EF lens mount, the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K lets customers use larger EF photographic lenses to create cinematic images with shallower depth of field, allowing creative de-focussed backgrounds and gorgeous bokeh effects. This means that customers can shoot in 6K and then zoom and re-frame in post-production to allow wide shots and close ups to be created, all from a single camera, whilst retaining image quality.
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K and 6K both have an incredible 13 stops of dynamic range which means they preserve more detail in the lightest and darkest areas of an image than simple video cameras can. This allows filmmakers to set exposure for an indoor scene – such as a cafe and still retain the details of bright outdoor light coming through a window. Customers get even more colours than the standard DCI-P3 colourspace used for feature films.
The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera features dual gain ISO up to 25,600, which means both the 4K and 6K models are optimized to minimize grain or noise in images, while maintaining the full dynamic range of the sensor. The native ISO of 400 is ideal for scenes with on-set lighting. The gain is set automatically, so it's easy to capture great images when you don’t have time to set up lights.
The new 6K model will shoot up to 50 fps at 6144 x 3456 16:9 or 60 fps at 6144 x 2560 2.4:1 and 60 fps at 5744 x 3024 17:9. For higher frame rates you can window the sensor and shoot up to 120 fps at 2.8K 2868 x 1512 17:9. Plus, you can work in true anamorphic 6:5 using anamorphic lenses in 3.7K 60 fps at 3728 x 3104.
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera records using standard open file formats, so you don’t have to waste time transcoding media. Recording works in industry standard 10-bit Apple ProRes in all formats – up to 4K or 12-bit Blackmagic RAW in all formats up to 6K. Best of all, media files work on all operating systems plus you can format media cards and disks in HFS+ for Mac and ExFAT for Windows.
The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera features built-in CFast and SD UHS-II card recorders, and a USB-C expansion port for recording direct to an external media disk. Use regular SD cards for HD or higher performance UHS-II and CFast cards for native 4K or 6K when using Blackmagic RAW. Imagine capturing over an hour of full resolution 6K images on a single 256GB SD UHS-II card.
Blackmagic RAW is a revolutionary new format designed to capture and preserve the quality of the sensor data from their camera. Video formats such as H.264 are highly compressed and add noise and weird artefacts, causing original sensor detail to be lost forever. Blackmagic RAW eliminates this problem and produces stunning images with incredible detail and colour throughout the production pipeline from camera to edit, colour and mastering. It also saves camera settings as metadata so you can set ISO, white balance and exposure in-camera, or override them later while editing, all without any loss of quality. Blackmagic RAW files are also small and fast to use, making them so easy to work with.
The rear of the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera features a large, bright 5-inch touchscreen that makes it easy to frame shots and accurately focus. It’s like getting a built-in Blackmagic Video Assist with the camera. The touchscreen display provides critical information while shooting, as well as menus for setting up the camera and intuitive touch to focus controls. On-screen overlays show status, a histogram, focus and peaking indicators, levels, frame guides, playback controls and more.
With the advanced Blackmagic OS, you get an intuitive and user-friendly camera operating system based on the latest technology. The interface uses simple tap and swipe gestures to adjust settings, add metadata and view recording status. You also get full control over advanced camera features such as on-screen focus and exposure tools, 3D LUTs, HDR, metadata entry, timecode, Blackmagic RAW settings and more.
Featuring the same Generation 4 Colour Science as the high-end URSA Mini Pro G2, the Pocket Cinema Camera delivers stunning, accurate skin tones and faithful colour in every shot. Blackmagic Generation 4 Colour Science uses a complex dynamic 12-bit gamma curve designed to capture more colour data in the highlights and shadows, giving you better looking images. The colour science also handles some of the complex Blackmagic RAW image processing, so colour and dynamic range data from the sensor is preserved via metadata which can be used in post-production.
The camera includes a full-size HDMI port for monitoring, with support for HDR and clean 10-bit output. There’s also a mini XLR connection with 48-volt phantom power for attaching professional microphones, a 3.5 mm video camera style microphone input, headphone connection and a locking DC power connector.
Digital film cameras shoot logarithmic colourspace to preserve the dynamic range, which is great for later post production, however when these files are viewed on a monitor they can look flat and washed out. 3D LUTs solve this problem because they allow you to apply a "look" to the monitor to give you an idea of how the finished images will look when editing. The Pocket Cinema Camera works with industry standard 17- and 33-point 3D LUT files, or you can work with the built-in LUTs such as Extended Video, Film to Video, Film to Rec.2020 and more.
These professional cameras include professional features including a built-in timecode generator, allowing shooting with more than one camera while staying in perfect sync. Simply plug an external timecode generator such as Tentacle Sync into the 3.5 mm audio jack and the camera will automatically detect timecode and lock the internal generator. Now each camera can start and stop recording and all the shots from all cameras will have the same matched timecode. Imagine shooting a music festival with multiple roving cameras. Best of all, new DaVinci Resolve 16.1 will automatically find and sync the shots from all cameras so you don't need to waste time sorting through thousands of shots.
The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera uses standard removable LP-E6 type batteries and also features a locking DC power connector, so you never have to worry about losing power in the middle of a shoot. The USB-C expansion port can also be used to charge the battery from portable battery packs, mobile phone chargers or a laptop computer. You can even add an optional Blackmagic Pocket Battery Grip – allowing you to use 2 batteries to dramatically extend the power of the camera.
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K and 6K models include a full version of DaVinci Resolve Studio, which is the same software used in Hollywood for creating high end feature films, episodic television shows, commercials and more. DaVinci Resolve features a revolutionary new cut page with intelligent editing tools and innovative new features designed to help filmmakers quickly find the footage customers want, edit it together and output it fast. In addition to the new cut page, you also get DaVinci’s legendary professional editing, advanced colour correction, audio post and visual effects tools – all in a single software application.
"The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K features incredible new 6K imaging and EF lens support that customers have asked for," said Grant Petty, Blackmagic Design CEO. "It has all of the great features customers love from the 4K model, but now adds an EF lens, increased 6K resolution for even higher quality images and more. Plus, with the built-in Video Assist features, customers don't have to purchase and carry around extra equipment. DaVinci Resolve Studio is also included, making it an incredible all-in-one solution that enables anyone to be creative and tell a story."
The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K is coming soon and will be available for hire, HERE.
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