@Vitaliy_Kiselev

I just got an email from Grant Petty stating that the BMCC (EF and MFT) price has changed to $1995 from today.

Maybe the topic title could be changed!!

Snippet from Email:

Blackmagic Cinema Camera Price Reduction

We have worked very hard over the last year to be able to build the Blackmagic Cinema Camera at a lower cost so we can reduce the price and allow access to digital filming to a wide range of cinematographers and photographers.

We have done it and from today the Blackmagic Cinema Camera EF and MFT models will be reduced in price to US$1,995. This is very exciting and is one of the proudest moments of my life to be able to do this!

I think people will be able to use the savings to invest in some exciting lenses and rigs to really boost the creative possibilities. The Blackmagic Cinema Camera is a fantastic design that's now well proven. The advantage of the 2.5K sensor is it has enough resolution to eliminate the bayer resolution loss of a HD sensor, but when shooting RAW it produces files that are too not to big to store and work with easily. It's a fantastic solution.

All orders placed that have not yet been filled, can be reduced to the new lower price.

Having fun with my BMCC MFT camera. Using the Voigtlander f0.95 25mm lens.

There is some BMCC MFT Nikon Speed Booster footage in the Nikon G Speed Booster thread.

@CFreak mine is arriving tomorrow morning here in LA. Very exciting! Anyone have a MetaBones Speed Booster they have tried out on the BMCC yet?

@MRfanny Yep, it does indeed. One of my more expensive lens caps at $49 -- although it's only $39 at B&H for the next week.

OK, it will probably make most of you BMCC lovers cringe, but this morning I tried out my brand new BMCC MFT with probably the worst MFT lens I have -- the Olympus 15mm f8 lens cap.

Here's the result. Definitely some issues with this lens. :-)

Well damn, the BMCC looks pretty damn good to me for $3000! I mean come on now. 99.9% of the people out there would never know the difference. With the cost of SSD's and storage dropping faster than Tara Reids career did, this is just getting better all the time. I'd like to really know the difference in work flow time Raw really takes. I've been in a few national commercials now that film with REDS and hearing about more here in LA. I'm wondering how much PITA it really is for post. Not that I have any knowledge at all. Seems like the BMPCC and it's ProRes might be great for commercial work when you don't have low light concerns. That is as long as you can get the same pleasing image from the sensor.

BMDCC beside Alexa.

I was very suprised at the first sight, at a second look Alex looks more crisp an clear

see also making of:

Look what was at my house waiting for me when I got home.

I'm tiddly as always after an 18 hour day of heavily funded "real OBdoc TV" Believe me after the camera man (DOP ahem) and F55 choice heralded a massive 5 hour argument we had with the "DOP" but nothing matters - trust me just get a story? - shoot the fooker in the budget. Even faced with the 50k overhead of polishing the turd of no sound and teens shooting it (which it will be!) the "camera (boy) sorry DOP " still got his way shooting home video stylee lol - hell I don't care (I do!) I charge by the hour, but I was genuinely asking WTF in a pre prod meeting - something I've never even joked about before - it seems we are entering an age of breakthrough directors (lovely) insisting on their (slightly less than) breakthrough mates DOPing lol- hey if you love post and having coffee with us and spunking money - many thanks! It's great we can capture rapidly and at great resolution, but the basic principles of shooting with separate capture devices (a la fim!) hasn't changed - however seems now no-one can be arsed to roll, call,clap, mark and make - it takes 10 bloody seconds! Feel free to pump money into post and many thanks! x I still expect the production managers email asking why it cost so much in a few months after all this - welcome to making stuff!

@Brian202020 Woohoo! Can't wait to start shooting with the BMCC MFT.

@kholi if you have time, can you shoot a quick vid to compare the Voigtlander (17.5 or 25mm) look to the Zeiss (ZE or ZF) look on close-up skin tones with the BMCC MFT? I think you said you were planning to compare SLR Magic with Voigt at some point. Maybe you can throw your Zeiss in the mix too. Thanks

I'm trying to decide if I should budget for a Zeiss lens.