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Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera
If you like taking footage of your travels, you'll love this...
Check it out Video only, but amazing video for a travel-size pocket camera./ Here's a couple demos (not mine) Paris Shanghai Auckland Can't beat it for $995 |
Old news my friend... The main problem is the use of micro 4/3 lens mount
with an even higher crop factor (3x). That makes it completely unusable unfortunately. There is no wide lens out there to put on this camera, even the Olympus 12mm will be seeing the 35mm crop. Sorry, but no, thanks... |
Originally Posted by Big_Foot
(Post 21142841)
Old news my friend... The main problem is the use of micro 4/3 lens mount
with an even higher crop factor (3x). That makes it completely unusable unfortunately. There is no wide lens out there to put on this camera, even the Olympus 12mm will be seeing the 35mm crop. Sorry, but no, thanks... |
I was as impressed as you are when the announced it, I even
pre-ordered it the first day. Then I started to research the lenses and it's not up to the quality I'm looking for. Old C-mount lenses are not really what I would like to shoot with. Panasonic 7-14 zoom is huge, so the whole pocket idea - out the window. Plus using a 7mm lens to see a 21mm field of view is really strange to me and not something I would consider practical. A 50mm lens sees a 150mm crop. Too far from a "normal" view. |
Originally Posted by Big_Foot
(Post 21153953)
I was as impressed as you are when the announced it, I even
pre-ordered it the first day. Then I started to research the lenses and it's not up to the quality I'm looking for. Old C-mount lenses are not really what I would like to shoot with. Panasonic 7-14 zoom is huge, so the whole pocket idea - out the window. Plus using a 7mm lens to see a 21mm field of view is really strange to me and not something I would consider practical. A 50mm lens sees a 150mm crop. Too far from a "normal" view. If you compare it to say, a Tokina 11-16mm or 12-24mm APS-C lens, the Panasonic is about an inch shorter snd weighs about half as much. And BTW, it covers a quite useful range from very wide 21mm equivalent FOV, to near normal 42mm FOV. BTW, Olympus' 9-18mm lens is even smaller and lighter than the not at all huge Panasonic 7-14mm. |
Gotta love this bit of marketing fluff on their site: "With its extremely compact size, you can covertly shoot important and historic events such as wars, protests and other conflict..."
Cheers, T. |
IME, the support provided by Blackmagic Design is poor. Browse through their support forums and see the reports of various devices not working or their drivers causing crashes.
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