🎥 Unleash Your Creativity with the Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 4K Review

Pros: I liked everything, from delivery, to test shots, and what color in BRAW. I recommend immediately purchasing an SSD, a cage, cage accessories, and batteries. Has cons: The native battery in the box is very quickly discharged, literally 30 minutes and this does not include recordings.

I wanted something to record 4k 60fps for my YouTube channel and this camera exceeded my expectations. Shooting in Blackmagic RAW was great and the in-camera resolution sweetened the deal.

. However, the NP-F970 battery supports a recording time of over 1.5 hours. I put the battery plate on the cage and used the 12V input power, after that the recording time was good.

Combined with Metabone's 0.64x XL Speed Booster you get a crop factor of 1.21 and you get an extra stage and a stage light. Add Rokinon Cine DS full-frame prime lenses and you have a 4k/60 fps RAW/Prores workstation with 13 stops of dynamic range in a very compact body that allows shooting with a 17:9 aspect ratio. This is a lower crop factor than Alexa, giving you more background compression and more light for better low-light performance and more depth and blurry backgrounds. THAT'S CRAZY!

I just love how people troll these products even before they're released. To be honest, this camera can be amazing or it can fail, which we won't know until it comes out. Unfortunately, camera snobs turn their noses up at Black Magician products because the price is cheaper and the quality is a bit lower than other cameras that cost as much as a new car. To be honest, I've seen editors work with "bad" cameras and put out products that are better than the stuff shot with Alexas and Reds. Yes…