Black Magic, Magic lantern Raw video tech talk

[bzhwindtalker]

Found my next camera I guess!
It's a dedicated video camera in a hybrid form factor, shooting with a 10 bit codec (oposed to 8 bit in popular video dslr like the 5D or GH3) and 13 stops of dynamic range.
What it means is way more detail reseolution and good scene exposure. The cam also has all the connectors to expend it into a full cinema setup. It does not shot 2k, but I'd rather have 10 bit 1080p than 8bit 2k.
Seems like they will sell it for about 1000$ without lenses, wich is almost afordable when you compare to the competition. The only things bugging me are the lack of very wide lenses (21mm in 35mm equivalent is the widest you can go...) and the fact it does not shot 60fps. I need to start selling my Canon gear

http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpocketcinemacamera

 

[full-throttle]

Very nice!

You don't have to use M43 lenses. Just buy a $10 adapter and keep you Canon glass.

A quick preview here http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/0...a-1080-Raw-ProRes-CinemaDNG-Micro-Four-Thirds

And the interview with BM http://vimeo.com/63597094

PS I nearly got a job with them once, but they wanted someone with Mentor Graphics experience instead of Altium

 

[bzhwindtalker]

Just buy a $10 adapter and keep you Canon glass.

Yep but then my lenses would be stuck wide open with no electronic control. Some adapters have a built in manual iris but are 100+$
I'm not convinced by the lenes I own anyway, exepted for the 55-250 is II.
They quote 785€ on the french site, I hope that's with taxes (19,6%) otherwise... damm

Saving my cents

 

[bzhwindtalker]

Good thing I did not sell my canon stuff, now the guys at magic lantern (http://www.magiclantern.fm/) changed the game!
They managed to hack pretty much all canon dslrs into Raw video cameras
However the T2I (550D) seems to be the worst model for this very purpose... The older 50D are the hot ticket and will get up in price due to their amazing possibilities for the money. They are almost on par with the 5D mk3 for the raw video capabilities! So I just grabbed one for 400€
http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/05/28/canon-magic-lantern-raw-video-canon-eos-50d

Here's a test I did last weekend, runing an unoficial developpement firmware on my 550D:

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The 550D and the rest of the rebel series are limited by the sd card controller maxxing out at 21mb/sec, while the 50D can do 70mb/sec with the compact flash cards. With only 75mb of buffer, the 550D underperforms even next to a 500D :lol:

The possibilities and detail over full hd with the regular 8bit H264 codec are just amazing! Post processing those 14bit image sequences is a bit of a pain on my laptop but a "real" computer would have no problems, plus Jpegs images sequences are quite easy to edit. So you spend more time in processing the raw files into something usable but less time editing and rendering.

I think they (Magic Lantern devs) just killed 50% of the demand for the Blackmagic pocket cinema (as shown in the first post).

Did someone else here had a go at this raw video thing?