After part 1 and part 2 of our coverage of the new Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K we finally can bring the cinema5D Lab results to you. Interested to see how it fares? Will the lab reveal differences to the Pocket 4K? Well – let’s get started … Being a long time owner & user of the original Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera for 6 years now, and having tested the BMPCC 4K already in our lab a while ago, I was now really curious to get my hands on the new BMPCC 6K. The spec’s on Blackmagic Design’s website would list no difference to the Pocket 4K in terms of dynamic range – both cameras are listed with 13 stops dynamic range. So we decided to do our new latitude test in addition to the standard dynamic range and rolling shutter test with the BMPCC 6K and BMPCC 4K in order to see if we can find differences. And yes, as you will see below there are differences. But let’s start first with the rolling shutter measurements. BMPCC 6K Rolling Shutter Test We are using a new test method based on a high frequency, quartz & micro controller based strobe light at 300Hz. As the sensor readout happens from the top to the bottom, we are getting a sequence of black and white bars from the strobe. The strobe test reveals a rolling shutter of 19.8 [ms] – now we know why it cannot do full sensor readout in 6K...
Published By: CineD - Monday, 2 September, 2019