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Black Magic is showing its Black Magic Pocket Cinema 4K camera to an audience of broadcasting professionals at Inter Bee 2018, and we took this opportunity to take a closer look.
The “Pocket” name might make you think that it is a small camera, but as you can see in the pictures, it’s not pocketable or even small. Black Magic probably wanted to keep using the name as a follow-up for their previous Pocket Cam, which is about half the volume of this DSLR-sized new one.
The 5” full HD display is the second most obvious feature, and it’s nice to have a high-resolution display when filming. When used indoors, it’s absolutely beautiful, but if you want to use it on a sunny day, you might want to come up with some way of having a little bit of shade.
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The display is fixed and cannot be tilted up or down, and this might make things a little uncomfortable if you’re not filming at eye-level. This is something that should probably be improved in the next version.
There is no viewfinder as a backup, and the primary reason for this is the tactile user interface which would not be usable through a viewfinder anyway.
That user interface (UI) seems very intuitive and clear, which is better in my opinion than those you find in competing cameras from legacy DSLR vendors. Even my Sony NEX has a relatively clumsy UI, although it’s a consumer product. Black Magic has just done a wonderful job, and we hope that it will inspire the competition to up their game.
The storage options are interesting, with support for two types of memory cards, or even an external USB-C drive. As you can expect from a camera, there are good audio input options, even if the stereo microphone array is built-in on either side of the lens.
The trade show environment isn’t the best to test HDR recording etc. but there was a small studio, and the demo footage looked good. It will be interesting to see if expert reviews backup our initial impression of the video quality. It is possible to record in 4K/60FPS or 1080p/120FPS, but this latter mode only works in sensor crop mode, probably because there isn’t enough computational power to bin pixels or minify the 4K reading down to 1080p at that speed. Cropping the sensor is similar to zooming, so it reduces the field of view considerably.
Before considering purchasing one, we recommend checking the autofocus performance and the battery life as they were not strong points in the previous generation. This camera is very innovative and different, so it’s nice to have one more option for recording high-quality 4K video.
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Barstool Sports’ Tom Scibelli, aka Tommy Smokes, aggressively vaped his Juul on “The Ingraham Angle.”
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The Oscar-winning screenwriter wrote the scripts for “All The President’s Men” and “Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid.”
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The comedian later deleted his tweet.
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The “Call Me By Your Name” star vowed to work on his “Twitter impulse control.”
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I am so glad that no one has remade, rebooted, or changed the gender in Back to the Future. These movies should be left alone. If they did reboot it they would likely feel the need to give us some new versions of the time-traveling DeLorean. Like this hovercraft version for example.
It’s not really a DeLorean though. It just looks like one. What you’re looking at is a custom-built hovercraft that looks like the time-traveling DeLorean from Back to the Future II. It will cost you $45,000 or best offer, and you can buy it on eBay.
Here are some of the details:
“This is a hand-made hovercraft that was built between 2008 and 2012 and continuously improved upon since then. I have recently remodeled and upgraded much of it and it is now in the best shape of its life. The thrust engine is about 5 years old and has about 40 hours on it. The lift engine is new and has about 10 hours on it. I spent the last 4 months working full-time to get it in great condition for you! New paint job, new rudders, new wiring, new switches, new led lights, etc.”
What you get:
- Hand-built hovercraft sculpted to look exactly like a DeLorean. This is a functional work of art, it is not an actual DeLorean bolted onto a hovercraft.
- Custom flatbed tilting trailer built specifically for this hovercraft
- Miscellaneous spare parts and supplies including spare engine parts, fans and propellers, nuts and bolts.
- The hovercraft is based on the blueprints for the Universal Hovercraft UH-13PT
- Free phone consultations for any technical questions you might have
Sadly, I don’t think it will ever hit 88 mph. Any takers?
[via Boing Boing via Geekologie]
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