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this is the Blackmagic pocket cinema camera and if you're not familiar with
Blackmagic what they've basically done is they've taken the camera industry and
kind of giv it a wakeup call giv it a shake but the introduction of their 2
and 1/2k black magic cinema camera they
introduced like massive dynamic range which basically amounts to capturing
detail in low light and highlight at the same time giving you a lot more
flexibility in postprocessing to work with the footage so they introduced that
camera for just like Wicked crazy low pricing then they turned around and
introduced a 4K version for $4,000 and a
1080p version for $11,000 and dropped the pricing on the 2 1/2k to 2500 bucks
so essentially for every line of vertical resolution you're paying about
a dollar which is you know sounds great on paper and all that but what do you
actually get and the answer is you get a pretty wicked looking image we're
actually going to include some test footage that Brandon uh Boll took with
this particular camera cuz we've already actually opened it up before at the end
of the video so do check that out but let's start with what's inside instead
of including stupid discs they include yay an SD card that has the software and
manuals unlike the 2 1/2k and the 4k camera it doesn't come with a full
version of Da Vinci resolve which is black Magic's color correction software
so it just comes with the light version which it should be noted is actually
free for download um for anyone so it's
th000 software for the full version so it makes sense that with A1 th000 camera
they didn't necessarily include that next inside we find the power adapter
which you may actually find yourself needing because the integrated battery
is not really anything special there we
go as well as International plugs so there's our normal us plug that looks
like an EU one and wherever the heck all these things are from all right so they
include those as well as a carry strap
and what's neat about the fact that they include like a wrist carry strap for it
is that even though it produces some fantastic images it is small enough to
look like pretty much a normal point and shoot now when it comes to cameras
Hardware is a thing but it's not actually the only thing things like
codec licensing make a big difference to
what kind of an image a camera can produce so for example the camera we're
shooting this on the Sony fs700 records
in abchd which isn't a fantastic codec
in terms of retaining color information
so what that means is that the image might look great to you guys but if
we're shooting in the dark or if we're shooting in non-ideal conditions we
might not be able to play around as much with how the image looks in
postprocessing not so with this particular camera out of the box it
comes with Apple's prores codec which means uh basically well the opposite of
what I just said so there's more that you're going to be able to work with in post it's better than h264 which is
better than ABCD and coming in a couple of months
with a firmware upgrade you're actually going to be able to use lossless Cinema
dng which is basically almost like it's
raw but it's not uncompressed raw so
there will be a little bit less flexibility but you still should be able to do an absolute butt ton with it in
post give that you can shoot in raw and it has 13 stops of dynamic range so
we've only found a handful of cards that'll work with it without dropping
frames including this Sony UHS 1 card
which is their 94 megabyte pers second card so that's usually a read speed spec
which is sort of irrelevant when you think about it because rights are what people actually care about on these
devices so it comes only with a micro 43s Mount unlike the 22k which is also
has an EF Mount option but unlike the 2 and 1/2k Camera this one has an active
micro 43s Mount which means you can use lenses that control the aperture
electronically versus being stuck with manual lenses so I think for that reason
a lot of people were going with the EF mount on the 2 and 1/2k so now you don't
have to be quite as concerned about the lack of mounting options speaking of
lack of options there's not a whole lot in terms of stuff going on here so on
the back you find a large LCD that quite
frankly um I it's kind of poopy it's not
that great you're going to want to use an external viewfinder the good news about it is it's about as big as they
could have made it and it features a one to one zoom in so you can get your focus
right so at least it has that but color really doesn't look true to life on it
at all uh you've also got controls over here so you can navigate the menu this
way the power button is here and then on the bottom of the camera you find a
simple tripod screw you've also got the battery compartment down here which also
contains the SD card reader and the USB slot for pulling data off of it speaking
of batteries the battery is nothing special however already even though it
just launched you can get cheap batteries so don't worry too much about
it in fact it's recommended to just carry like a tuaca like uh you know
strap of batteries if you're going to shoot with this thing on on an ongoing
basis now this is cool on the top of the camera you've also got another tripod
mount so this is going to work with standard accessories like whether you
want to uh you know put like I don't know like a hot shoe adapter there or
whether you want to mount whatever it is you want to mount to it that's really handy and then you've also got dedicated
playback buttons as well as of course a record button since this does happen to
be a camera which brings us to the left
hand side of the camera where we really find the bulk of the the io so there's
the power in micro HDMI microphone in
more on that in a moment headphones out for monitoring as well as a lan C
connection which is used for remote control of the camera it's more of a prograde feature now that microphone
in uh right now because the preamp built
into the camera just isn't anything special levels are very very low so most
people are using external audio recorders in order to get reasonable
audio with the video that they're shooting with this camera it's possible
someone will release like you know a dedicated design for this camera preamp
so you'll actually be able to use the audio input on board otherwise it's
really recommended to use a zoom or some other kind of external audio recorder
now before we dive into the menus here I just want to talk a little bit about the
overall build quality of the camera it is absolutely beautiful the uh the soft
touch finish on the front of the camera has just the right amount of grip that
you never feel like you're going to drop it or lose it but without feeling like
it's just going to flake off and peel off the back has a slightly more subtle
slightly more plastic feel to it and then the middle piece right here so the
top piece that wraps all the way around the side and to the bottom is solid
aluminum and just feels absolutely fantastic the camera does get a little
bit warm in your hands so that should be noted however if you buy a ruggedized
case for it or something like this you will likely never notice those things so
let's dive into a couple of things in the menu here so number one is white
balance um so if you're evaluating the temperature so the color of your light
um the screen doesn't really help the profiles it shoots in don't really help
because they tend to be quite flat and the fact that there's not much
granularity to the white balance selections will make this a little bit
challenging for some people however if you're willing to work around it then
you can and particularly if you're willing to grade it in post you can
usually compensate for any inaccuracies uh in while while you were shooting
another thing of note so there's the there's all the microphone options
although you probably won't use them unless uh something sort of dramatic
happens over here we've got our recording options so prores right now is
the only option for recording format dynamic range you can select either film
or video and then you can go anywhere up to 30 FPS this is really cool so this is
a time-lapse interval you can set frames seconds or actually up to 10 minutes so
it has dedicated time lapse built into the camera and then finally we've got
more kind of similar settings including uh HDMI overlays or not overlays I think
that pretty much wraps it up other than to address the black dot issue so very
very strong light sources have been actually blacking out you can fix them
in post but Blackmagic has a firmware fix it'll be coming very very soon for
that and I think thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Blackmagic pocket
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thought we did a reasonably good job of something that really we don't talk
about that much also last thing guys if
you're looking at this going oh wow it's like a prograde camera for like a
thousand bucks and sounds like a great deal maybe I just won't buy like some
other camera um be in mind the way that
this works the footage you get out of it will have to be worked on there's no
such thing as you take a video with this camera of your kids birthday party and
it looks perfect out of the camera this is a prograde equipment they expect that
you know how to use software like uh Premiere or resolve or etc etc etc so
that's just something to bear in mind here guys