The Blackmagic Pocket Camera Battery Pro Grip held two batteries which greatly extended the shooting time – roughly an extra hour per battery. As mentioned earlier, if you have several different shooters the multiple eyepiece rubber cups will make everyone happy. The optional viewfinder is worth every penny-especially when shooting outdoors. When using the eyepiece, a sensor automatically shuts off the LCD screen saving battery drain. I installed the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera Pro EVF with the largest rubber eyepiece because seeing the LCD touchscreen would be difficult outdoors.

The first exterior shoot would be the longest in the scorching and humid Pennsylvania August weather. Bonde” a six-minute short about an aging secret agent not quite ready to throw in the towel. Using two different Canon EF mount lenses (16mm – 35mm f/2.8 and 24mm – 70mm f/2.8), I set out to shoot “Goodbye, Mr. As a big advocate of 6K RAW shooting, I set the camera to 6144 x 2560, 5:1, at 24 fps. Having the perfect film project lined up for the Pocket Cinema Camera 6K G2, I wanted to make sure I had indoor, outdoor, and shots that needed to be stabilized. The gyro senses the data and stabilizes the footage in post. The software utilizes this data and AI to greatly smooth out your shots. Using the latest software update, the built-in gyro sensor allows moving images to be stabilized when shooting in Blackmagic RAW. The storage media of choice will appear on the bottom right of the LCD screen. The unit can record onto SD media (UHS-11), a CFast card, or and external SSD if the brand is on Blackmagic’s recommended media list. ProRes allows 4096 x 21 x 2160 up to 59.94fps and up to 119.88fps if using 1920 x 1080 at HQ, 422, LT or PXY compression. Within this, you must select your compression level in either Constant Bitrate’s 3:1, 5:1 8:1 or 12:1 or Constant Quality’s Q0, Q1, Q3, or Q5. The Super 35 23.1 x 12.99mm HDR Gen 5 CMOS sensor sits behind a Canon EF mount that will accept a multitude of lenses. My review unit featured the five-inch tilting LCD touchscreen, three F570 batteries, the Blackmagic Pocket Camera Battery Pro Grip, and the optional electronic viewfinder The Pocket Cinema Camera 6K G2 is a very solidly built camera-much like a DSLR on steroids.

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