When watching イオンシネマ割引 at the cinema, or in HD on your own TV at home, there’s a notable difference between the quality of the footage on the screen, and anything you would be able to capture yourself, utilizing an everyday HD video camera. That is mainly due to the truth that professional filmmakers typically use cameras worth in excess of £100,000, and a complete host of additional professional kit, such as lighting rigs, lenses, filters etc.
Taking this under consideration, its highly unlikely that the average hobbyist, cash-strapped student or up-and-coming filmmaker can afford this type of equipment. However, there is an alternative solution.
At only over £2000, the Blackmagic Cinema Camera is really a fraction of the cost of most ‘cinema quality’ cameras, and is defined to be a real game changer with regard to putting professional-standard video capture in the hands of the ‘domestic/pro-sumer’. The Blackmagic is with the capacity of recording 2.5k Raw footage, which is more than enough for the common home user. At almost twice the size of HD, most people’s home computers will struggle to actually display video on that scale.
The Blackmagic helps considerably with post production workflow: The editing and colour grading process occurs after shooting, gives a much wider range of colour to work with compared to the average camera. Depending what codec the video was recorded in, it can be digitized directly into editing software, such as for example Final Cut Pro without the need for transcoding.
Included with the camera is a new version of Davinci Resolve 9 Colour Correction software. Offering you have the hardware to handle the file sizes in the home, this software will allow you to colour grade your footage to attain whatever look you need, i.e. you really should make a cloudy day look sunny.
There are 13 Stops of Dynamic range featured in this Camera, which quite simply, means the picture rocks !. For those in the know, the opportunity to harness light going into the lens of the camera in such a way allows them to achieve an extremely specific ‘look’ or ‘feel’.
To complement the camera’s dynamic range, it has compatibility with EF (Electric-Focus) lens mounts – the typical lens entirely on Canon DSLR and SLR cameras, and ZE lens mount, which can be found on all Carl Zeiss DSLR/SLR lenses.
For actually recording on the camera itself, it includes a SSD (Solid State Drive) recorder, which is compatible with a bunch of card brands including OCZ Vertex 3, Crucial C300, Crucial M4, Kingston V100 (64GB, 120GB, 240GB), Kingston HyperX 240GB.
For easy navigation, the camera features a neat 5″ touchscreen, which allows one to label and mark your clips easily, while on the fly. The ability to edit direct from the up to speed HDD (hard disc drive) is incredibly ideal for those doing quick change edits.
To be able to transfer data quickly, the Blackmagic features a Thunderbolt port – an input on the camera allowing a super-fast link with some type of computer or input at the opposite end. Specifically, the Thunderbolt port transfers data at an astonishing 10Gb/sec, via two channels – that’s 20Gb/sec! To give you a comparison a typical 2.0 USB port will transfer data at 480Mb/sec.
Overall the Blackmagic Cinema Camera is really a complete game changer: it gets the potential to completely revolutionise the way in which film and television is produced, and opens up the world of cinematic quality footage to small production outfits. The seamless workflow of the camera throughout all stages of the production process has the potential to reduce post-production turnaround, shooting schedules, and inevitably budgets.