On our first day at IBC Show 2023, we couldn’t resist from visiting Blackmagic Design’s booth to learn more about their newly-announced blackmagic cinema camera 6K, which is aimed at “high-end film productions”. Yesterday, Blackmagic Design launched tons of new products, including 3 new cameras, a smartphone filmmaking app as well as new hardware control panels and a video router for live production and broadcast. Although we already covered these announcements in great detail, on the show floor at IBC 2023 my colleague Ninowas eager to further investigate on the design choices behind the Cinema Camera 6K. So let’s see what he learnt when talking with Tim Siddons from BMD! blackmagic cinema camera 6K. Source: Blackmagic blackmagic cinema camera 6K – features The new blackmagic cinema camera 6K is definitely the highlight of the yesterday’s announcement, as it’s essentially a revamped, more modern version of the popular Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro. It’s the first Blackmagic Camera to ever feature a full-frame 6K image sensor – which comes with a tailor-made OLPF and supports 3:2 Open Gate recording – and to record on CFexpress Type B media (USB-C recording to an external SSD is still supported). blackmagic cinema camera 6K. Source: Blackmagic The camera can record BRAW in 6K full-frame 3:2 at up to 36fps or 6K 2.4:1 at up to 60fps. You can also shoot slow-motion videos in FullHD cropped at up to 120fps and even generate 1080p H.264 real-time proxy files next to the Blackmagic RAW originals....
Published By: CineD - Friday, 15 September, 2023