BLACKMAGIC POCKET CINEMA CAMERA

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I'm still shooting some video with mine, here are more of my thoughts.

If you only bought it to use for green screen it would be worth the price.
That 10 bit 422 Prores is the best to key video.
The keying is easier and looks better than my C300 which is very troubling when a camera that cost 15 times less does a better job at anything.

The peaking is great to help focus, very bright green lines makes focusing easy.

It's still a LCD so seeing what you are shooting in daylight is a chore, I'm exploring some type of shield for it.

I set my zebras to 100 and expose so nothing in the video has zebras or at least very minimal.
The camera's dynamic range does the rest and looks great, 13 stops of DR is like nothing you've seen.

The small size is very stealthy, used handheld with a stabilized lens gets you noticed like any other tourist on the street.
My panasonic lens if very sharp and works great.

As far as lens, from what I'm hearing on the BMC forums some MFT lens works great, some don't. Before buying a lens I would check those forums for a run down on what people are saying works.
If you're going the manual lens route such as an older Nikon lens and using a Nikon to MFT lens. those work fine.
Some people are using the Red Rock Micro active mount for EF lens. It gives you iris control on your EF lens. Kind of expensive but does work well.

All in all, if you are on the fence about this camera, there isn't a reason to be. For $1K its a no brainer.

Oh yeah. Keep plenty of batteries handy in the field. It goes through batteries like a kid on a chocolate bar.
One of the problems is using a lens with stabilizer since that also sucks battery life but even with that turned off it goes though a battery pretty fast.

The camera doesn't have the ability to either delete or format the card so again in the field take a laptop to download what you have shot and format the card.
Or have a shit load of cards with you, which is pretty expensive as the only cards that do work with this camera are the pro line of cards.
The 64 gig card I have will take about 30 minutes of video and cost about $120
This formatting issue may be fixed at some point via a firmware update.

Ahhh... to live in the USA where prices are real. In Canada I was able to get a 64Gb Sandisc Extreme Pro for $130 (plus tax). If you go to either of the two pro camera stores here they will run you $170 to $200 but if you go to a place like http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/sandisk-sandisk-extreme-pro-64gb-sdxc-memory-card-sdsdxpa-064g-x46s/10182274.aspx?path=88541fcafe1b6775907983918b063d66en02 they are $300 or about $337 including taxes.

If there are any Canadians looking for cards - http://www.canadacomputers.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=sandisk+extreme+pro&sid=g2f0t6pu8alci0pgcf0qag9vf3&x=0&y=0 is by far the cheapest source for these that I've found.

Or you can buy from B&H in NY for much less plus shipping.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=64Gb+Sandisc+Extreme+Pro&N=0&InitialSearch=yes&sts=ma&Top+Nav-Search=

My Balckmagic Pocket Camera Cinema Camera just arrived today, great first impressions build quality very nice, ships with a fully charged battery! The instruction book is on a SD card with a pinup photo of John Brawley and a fully tricked out BMPCC.

This is a pretty good review of the pocket camera.

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/camcorders/black_magic_pocket_camera.shtml

Thanks Jake, I had read his initial thoughts on the camera but not this review. I bought three extra batteries with the camera and I managed to get a free SanDisk 64GB Extreme thrown in. I'm hoping to pick up a used Panasonic 20mm f1.7 and the 12-35 f2.8

Cool, let me know how the 20mm works.

I got the 20mm f1.7 today a used one for a very good price, field of view is like a 50mm on full frame, close focusing is around 8 inches. The camera with the Panasonic 20mm looks just like a point and shoot, very stealthy (touristy). Focus works well but slowly.

Jake I have found out this, as soon as I power up the camera it automatically starts off at fully wide open aperture, if I press the iris button while shooting something dark inside it sets the aperture, if then I point it outside and press the iris button it wont stop down, I have to find something in the middle of the two brightness to get it to change f-stop. Have you experienced this?