Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k Lut Download
Dulcie Yauck
All of this meant that a fully rigged up BMPCC was no longer pocket sized, and could be quite unwieldy to use. And yet people still used it, including myself, and loved it for the simple reason that no other camera in its price range, or indeed many times above it, could come close to the type of organic film like picture that it produced. I do not think I ever got back once from a shoot and be disappointed with the footage taken with the BMPCC. In fact even on some of the duller corporate videos I shot using it I actually looked forward to seeing what I had filmed!
I know, I know it's a cinema camera it inherently needs to be rigged up. I am quite happy with rigging my camera system. The thing that makes this frustrating however is that every accessory feels like a solution to an underlying problem with the camera to make it usable rather than something that improves my workflow and allows me to focus on filming.
We imagine the majority of people reading this article could be split into two camps: aspiring filmmakers looking for their first cinema camera and seasoned veterans looking for a reason to feel smug about their cinematic superiority. We promise this review has something for both of you and everyone in between.
The gimbal that probably works with the least amount of tweaking is the Moza Air 2. This gimbal was created after the Pocket 4K was announced, and has a wider profile to account for the shape of the pocket. Another benefit of the Moza Air is that you can power the camera from the gimbal (using the Blackmagic Cable Pack). The gimbal has battery power to spare, and extra batteries are pretty cheap.
Although Blackmagic is known for its cinematic colors, getting the footage to look right can be quite a challenge. The dreadful magenta shift, oversaturated reds and inaccurate white balance readings are all known issues that plague Blackmagic's cameras and can make it difficult to even reach a natural-looking base-grade. To help with this issue, I've created a natural Rec709 LUT Pack that makes it a lot easier to get your Blackmagic footage to look right. To get the best results, set your white balance a little to the cool side.
Im looking into the blackmagic cinema camera, and I have a few ideas for a short film, but honestly don't know what lenses to get! I need a kit, what lenses would you recommend for a beginner to start filming and if you could direct me somewhere that would be awesome!
It is so nice to see a small family owned shop instead of these big box stores. I generally felt cared about when getting my blackmagic cinema camera. Love the quality of the images and how easy it is to use.
Blackmagic made waves at last year's NAB with the announcement of the company's first camera: the $3,000 function ga4_link113() window.dataLayer.push(JSON.parse('"event":"default_event"')) Cinema Camera, which was equipped with a 2.5K image sensor. That camera was hailed as a revolutionary device for the filmmaking industry, giving users a relatively affordable way to record high-res images on an interchangeable-lens system. In fact, as I write this article in the press room at NAB, I see two Blackmagic Cinema Cameras sitting on the table across from me. In less than a year, Blackmagic morphed itself from a valuable post-production and video engineering company into one of the leaders of the digital cinema camera movement.
Blackmagic's attitude toward design is simple: keep things cheap by giving the user a basic camera body that is designed solely for capturing video. It's similar to the idea behind RED's "brain" design with its body-only cinema cameras, although RED positions itself much higher up on the food chain (the cheapest RED camera, the Scarlet-X is close to $8,000). The difference with the Blackmagic Pocket Camera is that it comes with a standard Micro Four Thirds lens mount (and an LCD), which means it's compatible with plenty of M43 lenses right out of the box. And with the right lens adapter, you can mount lenses of virtually any other mount to the front of this tiny camera.
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