At NAB 2024, we sat down with Craig Heffernan – Technical Sales Director at Blackmagic Design – to dive deeper into the long list of specs of their newly-announced URSA Cine 12K full-frame cinema camera. Let’s take a look! At first glance, the new URSA Cine 12K may look almost identical to the existing URSA Mini models. However, upon closer inspection, it immediately becomes clear that Blackmagic Design has followed a “no compromise” approach when redesigning the URSA lineup. By the way, in case you missed it, make sure to check out our previous interview with them on the upcoming 17K 65mm version here. The list of new features packed in the new URSA Cine 12K is truly extensive and, according to Craig, the company has tried to leverage their 10+ years of expertise in producing cinema cameras – combined with their know-how in post-production workflows – to offer an Hollywood-grade filmmaking tool at a relatively affordable price. Blackmagic URSA Cine – 12K full-frame sensor To start off, the new Blackmagic URSA Cine 12K features a new large-format (35.64×23.32mm) RGBW sensor with 12K resolution (12,888×8,040 pixels) with larger photo-sites compared to its Super35 12K predecessor. This should also lead to increased dynamic range, so we’re very curious to put the camera through its paces in our Lab Test for dynamic range and rolling shutter. Talking about rolling shutter, Craig claims that it should be around 12ms when shooting in 12K Open Gate at 24fps, 6ms in 8K or 4K Open...
Published By: CineD - Monday, 15 April