if you're looking for an affordable video camera well then you've probably heard of
blackmagic and today they might have one
of the best value cameras they've ever released
and i'm about to unbox it the blackmagic 6k pro
so let's see whoa the pocket is also still in the name but
i have a feeling that this camera isn't actually going to be very small okay
so in the top of the box we get a nicely arranged bunch of international
adapters we get a
little quick start guide with the manual which is online you can get on the qr
code here
a wall adapter for the camera so if you ever need to plug it in for like live
streaming or just a long shoot or an interview or something like that you
have this included and this camera which is awesome uses the sony
np550 battery so if you've ever used like one of those onboard led lights or
honestly a lot of just camera accessories in general most
of them will use a battery like this like monitors that kind of thing so it's
nice that you could probably just reuse your small versions of these batteries
in this camera and a camera strap okay
oh this is thick wow you know what i will hand it to you
block magic your packing material is always
very good okay
holy crap this thing is huge
okay notice on the box it says
black magic pocket cinema camera 6k pro
i understand the naming i understand that the
this version this tier of the camera has always been called the pocket no this
could be a backpack but
for some context i have here the original blackmagic
pocket cinema camera notice that if i
took this lens adapter off and i have a jacket pocket right here it
actually fits in my pocket
this is the blackmagic pocket 4k now again
not a small camera like it's packable it still sort of deserves the pocket name
it doesn't it's not pocketable but this is another level
like this is the original black magic i swear
this camera's bigger yeah it is blackmagic what are you doing you could
have named it slightly differently okay let's look at the rest of this camera
and see what actually makes it different from the pocket 4k that i just showed
um first thing right off the bat you can see that the display
is now tiltable which honestly
even though the motion range doesn't seem to be
that significant it's going to be very useful for a lot of you out there
especially if you're shooting from the hip and you just need to see downward
instead of like having to have any sort of external monitor the display itself
can actually just flip down for you and now you can shoot from the hip quite
comfortably but on top of that this display is actually 1500 nits so you get
HDR daylight viewability on the camera
itself which is something that blackmagic cameras haven't done before
because all the displays on all the other cameras kind of suck to use outside and you sort
of have to use an external monitor this one though
you're not forced to on the top of the camera it feels fairly familiar it's the
three mappable function buttons an on
off switch a little tab where you can actually unlock it and put in evf and i'll show
that you that in a second the iso button a shutter button white balance a stills
button and then the record button on the right of the camera pretty
straightforward we have the memory slots which are cfast
and an sd card and then of course you can also use like samsung t5 drives on
this camera it has on the front
the amazing blackmagic 6k sensor that i've actually
yet to try because i've never used the pocket 6k the standard pocket 6k and
this is the pro so i'm excited to give that a shot in a second
you clearly have much larger intakes of air on the right
and left here of the camera sensor the front of the top of the camera has a quarter 20 which
is fairly standard and on the left of the camera we've got microphone
headphone a full-size HDMI type-c for
charging as well as the samsung t5 drives and two mini xlr ports now the
pocket actually only had one and the 6k
that was also the case but on this camera you get two mini xlr ports which
is a big deal because often if you need audio built into your
camera and you need to feed it through you will probably find yourself in
situations where you need more than one xlr port and this camera has two and you
also have the 12v power in when you want to power the camera off the wall finishing off the back of the camera
we've got two new buttons the plus and minus nd filter which this camera has a
2 4 and 6 stop nd which is very nice to
have we've got the iris button the focus button high frame rate punch in to check
your focus menu and play and lastly and i'm very glad blackmagic
added this because there are other cameras the other pocket cameras do not
have this but on the bottom of the camera there are two quarter 20s with
two points on the bottom built in the body you are not required to have a cage
in order to prevent the annoying twist that can happen when the camera loosens
off on the tripod and that just makes every operator happier
so thank you blackmagic for adding that before i turn the camera on i actually
want to unbox a couple of the accessories that blackmagic sent over they sent over their battery pro grip
which is basically just like a battery grip and then this is their pro evf
which i'm very interested to try
i mean first impressions the grip feels
a little bit cheap um but i guess functionally it doesn't
necessarily matter it doesn't feel like it's going to break or anything it's just not the nicest kind of plastic
it still also has the two quarter 20 points on the bottom which i appreciate
let's put it on the camera and see how it feels
um so we put the grip on this camera was
already not that light for the size and it is now very not light for the size
in theory you can have three full charged batteries in this camera and the
pockets have always been fairly power efficient but i don't know if it's worth the wait
trade-off because the fact that you also have to have the camera about an inch
taller could be hugely impractical for a lot of
camera accessories and i really have no and like because
it's not a stills camera holding it like this which is what you would usually do
with a battery grip on a camera it feels sort of dumb let's see if the
evf is any better
it's actually bigger than i expected you got a couple eye cups
different styles i guess it's for like if you want to use it with your left eye
or your right eye i don't okay i'm just gonna use it with my right eye
this is a cinema camera so let's put a cinema lens on it
this my friends is why when you add vertical height to your camera
it's not ideal you don't really want it to like lean the weight of the camera on
the lens i just hope this illustrates the point that this
feels very stupid i just took off that little cover this
thing is just like a screw and a very quite large piece of plastic if you look
here so there's quite a bit of depth the entire front of my fingernail fits
within this space which is actually a lot bigger than i expected
all right let's put this guy on oh and there's also
a hand tightened screw and it's a plastic
like top handle for the screw which i am not a fan of
how much is this evf
five hundred dollars
black magic let's see how good it is
well it works quite instantaneously that's nice
it's not the worst evf i've ever used 500 seems a little bit steep to charge
for it it also doesn't fully go vertical which
isn't i guess a huge deal the last thing though is the color doesn't actually
match the back of the lcd on the camera
so without looking out on a computer i'm actually not sure which one of them is
accurate more accurate than the other i would guess that the lcd on the actual
body is better and more accurate than this because the evf seems a little bit
on the shallow side andy is back there shaking his head because he has no faith
in the black magic displays because the orisa mini 12ks have proved to be
quite horrible on the onboard camera display now that
we've looked at the grip in the evf only a couple things left to test the
new nds in this new display let's go outside
so now we're outside and you guys will probably start to see what i meant by
when you add vertical height to a camera it's less than ideal this is the battery
grip with it mounted properly with the two screws
in the bottom on the tripod and it's tall
also because the camera doesn't have a cold shoe or hot shoe mount on the body
itself we've had to actually add this cold shoe mount
in order to add our lav receiver and if you didn't have a cage
this might be what you have to do in order to get like a place to mount your
lav receiver and audio and then this is what it might look like to use
an xlr adapter cable to this port so cable management
is a little annoying i mean and that's kind of one of the things that these
pocket cameras have never been amazing at despite all their features is
there's not really a great way to route all this stuff with
the camera by itself you will have to add a cage or some sort of cable
management to just tidy up the rig so that these things kind of don't get into
your way when you're shooting but if you were just on a tripod doing a
long interview with a shot like this you'd probably be totally fine it's not
a big deal i will admit though that the back of the camera when i actually have
the brightness 100 it's kind of a cloudy day today but the sun
is coming in and out and i can see everything
on the camera there is no issues i don't have to
squint and look like i don't have to cover the like
1500 nits it's impressive this is definitely
daylight viewable and that's pretty awesome so just to give you guys an idea
of what it's like to use the nds outside here's the camera with zero nd
and this is the two stop this is the four stop
and the six stop and in this case in the shooting condition i think the six stop
makes the most sense since we're at iso 200 and f 2.8 this camera does have a 6k
sensor and it's the same sensor that was in the pocket 6k and so it can shoot up
to 50 FPS at 6k or up to 120 FPS at
k now at 2.8k at 120fps you do have to
crop in on the sensors you will lose some field of view on your image
but other than that those specs are still today fairly respectable so while
we actually test the image on the pocket 6k pro and we're actually feeding audio
from this lab that i'm wearing directly into the camera forgive the wind noise
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description so this is what the image looks like when we're outside with the
nd filters on this is about as bare bones as the setup would actually get
it's just the camera a lens the built-in nds on a tripod
so let me know what you guys think in the comments down below and let's show
you a couple other shots while we're out here so i hope those examples give you
guys an idea of what this camera is like to use at the end of the day it's still the
same 6k sensor that they used in the pocket 6k the model previous
and it just adds the built-in nds the 1 500
net display the extra xlr port and a couple of the other body changes that
just make it a more pro experience
and they deliver all of that at twenty five hundred dollars to give you guys
context canon c70 is fifty or five hundred dollars the a7s iii is thirty
five hundred dollars the sony fx6 is six
thousand dollars the canon c200 which is a couple years old at this point fifty
five hundred dollars a used fs5 mark ii
is thirty five hundred dollars now just i told you all that to put in
perspective that this camera is twenty five 2500
cheaper than all of those and it has very similar functionality there are
features that it doesn't have compared to those cameras but considering
blackmagic always has been at the bottom
of good value now you pay for
qc and form factors like this
when it comes to those features but if you're the type of person looking for those things all in one camera at a
price point that is under 3 500
well then this is your only option
so good job blackmagic sort of
i'm sure there's going to be many people out there who use this camera
and if you are the type of person who would buy this camera let me know if you think the battery grip or the evf would
be useful to you because the evf i can see being useful in
certain situations though sort of an expensive addition
the battery grip i think that's just kind of stupid there
are better ways to invest 150 us dollars
but let me know thank you guys for watching please subscribe