Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera with Micro Four Thirds Lens Mount Takes Film Like Video

The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera is a true high dynamic range film look camera in an extremely portable size. You can shoot cinema quality in situations never before possible! Imagine shooting a documentary, episodic television production, television commercial or independent film in the true quality of digital film.  With its extremely compact size, you can covertly shoot important and historic events such as wars, protests and other conflict in cinema quality and get a more realistic record of the event. Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera is a true revolution in how you can shoot digital 
cinema.

Regular video cameras shoot limited dynamic range, which is why their pictures look like video. But the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera delivers film look because it captures a super wide dynamic range of 13 stops, so your images look truly cinematic. This means you retain all sensor data for DaVinci Resolve color grading.  This premium quality design features a solid magnesium alloy chassis, an MFT mount for interchangeable optics, Super 16 size sensor, 13 stops of dynamic range and high quality ProRes 422 (HQ) and lossless CinemaDNG RAW file formats! Every aspect of the image path has been totally optimized for quality.

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera lets you use the most incredible range of lenses. With the Super 16 size sensor you can use a wide range of adapters for film quality Super 16 lenses, or use commonly available low cost Micro Four Thirds lenses.

The extremely high resolution 3.5” LCD allows you to monitor while shooting and review recorded files on the SD card.

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

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Specifications:

Sensor Resolution	12.48mm x 7.02mm
Effective Resolution	1920 x 1080
Shooting Resolutions	Lossless CinemaDNG RAW and Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) at 1920 x 1080
Frame Rates	23.98p, 24p, 25p, 29.97p, 30p
Dynamic Range	13 stops
Focus	Focus button turns on peaking
Iris Control	Iris button automatically adjusts the lens iris settings so no pixel is clipped in film mode. Scene average auto exposure in video mode.
Lens Mount	Active Micro Four Thirds lens mount
Screen Dimensions	3.5" and 800 x 480 resolution.
Screen Type	Integrated LCD
Metadata Support	Automatic camera data and user data such as shot number, filenames and keywords.
Controls	4 way directional controller for navigating menus and entering metadata. Push buttons for recording and transport control.
Microphone	Integrated stereo microphone.
Speaker	Integrated mono speaker
Mounting Options	1 x 1/4"-20 UNC thread mounting point on top of camera. 1 x 1/4"-20 UNC thread tripod mount.
Storage Type	Removable SDXC, SDHC cards.
Storage Format	SD card can be formatted in either exFAT or HFS+
Storage Rates	220 Mbps using Apple ProRes 422 (HQ)
Compressed Recording Formats	Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) in QuickTime MOV, lossless CinemaDNG RAW. Recording in 1920 x 1080 with choice of Film or Video Dynamic Range.
HDMI Video Output	1 x Micro HDMI Type D output.
Analog Audio Input	1 x 3.5mm stereo audio.
Analog Audio Output	1 x 3.5mm stereo jack headphone output.
HDMI Audio Output	2 channels 48 kHz and 24 bit.
Remote Control	1 x 2.5mm LANC for Rec Start/Stop, Iris Control and Focus.
Software Included	DaVinci Resolve Lite grading software DVD for Mac OS X and Windows.
Supported Software Applications	Adobe Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, Nuke - The Foundry, Adobe Photoshop, DaVinci Resolve.
Operating Systems	Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion or later. Windows 7 or later.
External Power	1 x 0.7mm DC Jack for power and battery charging.
Power	Removable, rechargeable Lithium Ion battery for EN-EL20, 12V-20V DC port for external power and battery recharging.
Battery Life	Approximately 1 hour of continuous recording time.
Battery Charge Time	Appoximately 1 hour 15 minutes when camera is off, and approximately 2 hours when in use.
Dimensions	128mm Wide x 38mm Thick x 66mm Height / 5" x 1.5" x 2.60
Weight	12.5 oz /355g