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Alongside a bevy of camera updates last week at NAB 2015, Blackmagic Design also announced its new Video Assist, which is a HDMI and SDI recorder with a 5″ 1920 x 1080 monitor for just $495. And, it records ProRes or DNxHD 10-bit 4:2:2 footage to cheap SD cards. [Read more…]
Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera
Alongside the new URSA 4.6K and URSA Mini cameras, Blackmagic Design also announced the new Micro Cinema Camera and Micro Studio Camera 4K at NAB 2015, priced at $995 and $1,295, respectively. [Read more…]
Alongside the updated URSA 4.6K camera unveiled this week at NAB 2015, Blackmagic also introduced the URSA Mini in 4K and 4.6K options with an EF or PL mounts. [Read more…]
Today at NAB 2015, Blackmagic Design unveiled its 4.6K update to the URSA cinema camera. The new sensor is a Super35 format with 4608 x 2592 lines of resolution and is capable of an impressive 120fps. Blackmagic claims an astounding 15 stops of dynamic range. [Read more…]
Blackmagic has announced the Blackmagic Camera 2.3 software update for its 4K URSA cinema camera, which adds higher frame rates, video codecs and more. [Read more…]
Late last year, Blackmagic Design unveiled Fusion 7 for Windows and made it free with a Studio version available for $995 with additional features. That was a big deal because it was previously a $5,000 application for high-end VFX work on Hollywood films like Maleficent, Edge of Tomorrow, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, The Amazing Spider-man 2 and The Hunger Games, as well as hit TV shows like Battlestar Galactica and Orphan Black.
Of course, we wondered at the time when Mac OS X support would be available. Well, it’s not quite on the market for Mac yet, but Blackmagic is already showing off support for OS X and will have more details available at NAB 2015 in just over a week.
[via Blackmagic Design]
Following the release of the firmware upgrade for the Blackmagic Production Camera 4K, Blackmagic Design recently announced the availability of Camera 1.9.7 software, which includes dashboard on screen menus and high performance disk formatting for the Blackmagic Cinema Camera and Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera. The update is available for download from the Blackmagic Design website free of charge for all Blackmagic Cinema Camera and Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera customers.
See the complete details on the Camera 1.97 firmware update in the press release below. [Read more…]
Blackmagic has added yet another firmware update for the Production Camera 4K. The new Camera v. 1.9.5 update adds the ability to directly format an SSD to HFS+ or exFAT within the camera.
The firmware is currently being worked on for the other Blackmagic cameras. You can download the update for the Production Camera 4K here on Blackmagic Design’s website.
B&H has the Metabones Canon EF Lens to Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera Speed Booster in stock with free expedited shipping. This speed booster reduces the crop factor of Canon lenses from 3.02x to 1.75x on the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera. Additionally, the speed booster effectively increases the brightness of a lens by 1 2/3 stops, which means a f/1.2 lens becomes a f/0.74 lens. Check it out here at B&H Photo.
Blackmagic has announced a firmware update for the Production Camera 4K to version 1.9. It includes new “heads up display” on screen metering that provides histogram, peak audio meters and recording time remaining.
These features will be added to the Blackmagic Cinema Camera and Pocket Cinema Camera in a future update. You can download the update here on Blackmagic’s website.