NAB 2013, Las Vegas, USA - ApBlackmagic Design today announced Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, a beautifully designed, pocket sized digital cinema camera that includes powerful features such as Super 16mm sized 1080HD sensor, super wide 13 stops of dynamic range, built in SD card recorder for Apple ProRes, lossless compressed CinemaDNG RAW capture and active Micro Four Thirds lens mount, all in an attractive compact design for only US$995.īlackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera will be demonstrated on the Blackmagic Design NAB 2013 booth at #SL218. Press Release: Blackmagic Design Announces Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera It also includes mic and headphone sockets, a 12V power input and standard tripod mounts top and bottom to allow flexible incorporation into a shooting rig. It also includes a LANC connector for controlling record, stop, focus and iris settings, remotely. It offers magnified focus and focus peaking, and can output an HDMI signal with or without overlays for external monitoring. The camera captures ProRes footage at 220 Mbps, allowing it to fit 50 minutes of footage on a 64Gb SDXC card.

The company has said this will cost just $995 and be available from July.

The camera can capture footage in Apple's 10-bit 4:2:2 ProRes format Blackmagic promising to add the open, lossless CinemaDNG Raw standard later.

The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera uses a Super 16 imaging area (around 12.5 x 7.4mm - essentially a 16:9 crop of a 1' sensor - a format for which high-speed sensors are available), and an 'active' Micro Four Thirds lens mount, giving full aperture control of native lenses. Blackmagic Design has announced a pocket-sized 1080p movie camera capable of 422 ProRes capture with promises of lossless CinemaDNG to be added via firmware.

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