The new Blackmagic PYXIS 12K camera has arrived at our CineD headquarters. After the Blackmagic URSA Cine 12K LF camera, we now have the same 12K sensor in the smaller, box type sibling. Will it perform in a similar way? Curious to hear the results? Then read on … About a year ago we ran the Blackmagic URSA Cine 12K LF camera through our standardized CineD lab test (results here). It set a new benchmark in terms of performance to price, and scored superb values for dynamic range. Now, the very same sensor but a different signal processing pipeline is implemented in the much smaller footprint of the PYXIS body, which already hosted the 6K sensor of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K. The Blackmagic PYXIS 12K camera in our CineD lab. Image credit: CineD The PYXIS 12K was announced at NAB 2025 in April – please head over here for our detailed coverage on this camera. Again, let me say a big “thank you” to my dear colleague Florian Milz who helped me to shoot and analyze this lab test. Rolling Shutter of the PYXIS 12K As usual we use our strobe light at 300Hz to reveal the pairs of black / white bars in order to measure rolling shutter. Blackmagic had already posted a table of the rolling shutter values in all the different sensor modes on their forum, so we just crosschecked and found them to be very accurate. For example, in 12K 3:2 open gate mode we...
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