New firmware

New update adds support for SDI start/stop record trigger which allows external video recorders, such as Blackmagic Video Assist, to start and stop recording in tandem with the camera automatically. It also adds SDI RP-188 timecode output support that enables users to record files with identical timecodes on both their camera and an external recorder. It is now possible to use the ProRes or DNxHD files for editing, and automatically re-link the camera original wide dynamic range RAW files with matching timecode for grading and finishing.

where did you see the price drop? it's still officially 2995$

Just a heads up that the thread title could be changed to reflect new price of $2495

Looks like camera update 1.9 is just for BMPC..

Blackmagic Design today announced the immediate availability of Camera 1.9 software which includes new “heads up display” on screen metering that provides customers with histogram, peak audio meters and recording time remaining for the Blackmagic Production Camera 4K.

Camera 1.9 update is available now free of charge from the Blackmagic Design website.

Using these additional displays for the Blackmagic Production Camera 4K means that customers can easily and quickly check important camera settings such as exposure, audio level and the remaining space on their recording disk.

Using the histogram scope, customers can now easily and rapidly set exposure in a shot as the histogram shows the the distribution of luminance in their images and if highlights or shadows are being clipped. Images with clipped highlights or shadows make it much harder to color grade the shots in post production, so having the histogram feature helps DOP’s shoot with confidence. The histogram scope is real time so highlights and shadows can be adjusted interactively with the lens setting, ensuring images are not clipped and maximum detail in tonal ranges is preserved, critically important for allowing colorists to create amazing grading effects in post production using the full contrast range of the camera.

Camera 1.9 software update also includes a new audio metering with peak hold feature to allow setting audio levels for Channels 1 and 2 when using the built in microphone as well as externally connected audio sources. The audio meters make it fast to view audio levels and adjust camera audio gain so that audio is not clipped or distorted.

The new heads up display also includes a recording time remaining indicator that shows remaining space on the recording disk. The time remaining indicator is automatically re-calibrated to ensure an accurate time remaining value if the either the frame rate or codec are changed, and displays red when the disk is getting full.

http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support

"This will be coming for all other cameras as well" - BM

Blackmagic Production Camera 4K

• Updated user interface
• Losslessly compressed RAW DNG recording support
• Addresses an issue where pixel artefacts are seen in edges with strong highlights while shooting in 1080 mode
• Adds autofocus support for compatible EF lenses

Go to BM site to download Blackmagic Camera Utility 1.8

@Vitaliy_Kiselev Remarkable hack and enhancement of BM4K by Kinefinity!

The "gray gauze" is gone in a matter of seconds, after basic levels adjustments, as anyone who's worked on BMD footage can tell you.

There may be other compelling reasons to use the ACES workflow, yet to be supplied, but instant high saturation and avoidance of gray gauze will not be among them.

The main attraction of the BMD FILM LUT is that it prepares the footage for grading in Rec.709, but doesn't impose a heavily stylized "look". Users who want a particular look from the outset, or certain features, and won't be fighting those operations in the course of the grade (if any), can use other workflows.

I would urge them to read the readily available information detailing the design and intent, view the readily available examples and the case studies of productions that have switched.

I oversimplified perhaps, in response to a worse over-simplification. I just really should have asked for the clips and not even bothered, truthfully.

You can, if you know what you're doing, avoid the grey gauze and get to the same place without ACES...

Of course, but which method is going to ultimately be more productive, all things being equal? Continuing one in light of the other presumes there's some nobility in the labor itself that somehow transcends value for the client as well as value of one's own time. Who is giving out the cookies for being one of the few at the dials that can correct for methodology-based defects?

But, that's neither here nor there. I was simply curious about that BMCC + BMPC example posted on the other page.