here I am late at night again making a last minute video on some Blackmagic news updates that I just
got wind of I have to shoot an entire wedding all tomorrow so I didn't even take the time to clean
my desk you're not supposed to see that eh I'll just blur it and make sure you're subscribed so
you can see what that is next month but anyways yes the camera that you saw in the thumbnail is
real of course it's not officially from Blackmagic but it is from a new modification mod modifier
modification ear I like that modification ear is like engineer but they're specialized in modding
cameras modification near now we've seen mods similar to this like from the tilta modification
kit that allow you to adjust the display to be on top as well as put a nvme SSD on the inside this
one in hindsight seems pretty simple it puts the screen on top in a tilting sliding action you get
some cold shoe mounts on the back pretty clever design I think if you want to still attach ssds
microphones maybe a small light and then you have a fullsize v-mount battery plate on the
back so this Kickstarter literally just launched a couple hours ago and as we scroll through kind
of the features here we can see that the vmount battery it definitely looks like it's built for
more of the mini V mounts or else you will have a potential to cover up the buttons since uh at
least a lot of my V mounts are still the bigger older ones we can see from this uh GIF here that
the small rig battery that they're switching which these are mini ones are pushing pretty
far to the right so I'm guessing those will cover the buttons you can see the tiltable screen here
and we can also see that it does still fit uh compact if you were to break this all down now
because the screen is on top where the viewfinder is for a 6K Pro this is limited to the 4K and the
6K G1 and this is a modification kit that you will most likely buy I believe that they'll have
a service where you can either send your camera to them and they will do it for you um or some
other options that I'm looking into but right now it seems like the main thing is to just buy
the mods kit which will come with all the tools instruction and of course Parts necessary to do
the modification he mentions that you don't need things like soldering or to be an expert at this
sort of thing so someone like myself in theory should be able to take apart a regular 4K or 6K
and do this myself in about an hour seems like there's only a couple pieces that are pretty
permanent seems like as long as you know how to gently handle a PCB board and uh have a hair dryer
or some sort of heat gun close by to be able to take off the screen you should be good to
go I know a lot of people are always hoping for a twistable screen so that way you can uh actually
see yourself while filming but the issues with that remain that the OS doesn't have any sort
of flipping upside down capability now they have flipping vertical I guess but also we can see the
exposed ribbon cable right there won't allow you to twist the whole thing around since obviously
that would break the ribbon Cable in terms of some downsides it seems that the uh vmount does take
up the 12v power port on the inside so the limo Jack on the side will no longer work however the
built-in battery is actually unaffected so this gives you the ability to hot swap batteries you
can have your internal npf battery inside and then hot swap vmount batteries all day long and
you're good to go so that's really good news for those of you who do really long recording times
for like interviews weddings and events looks like to currently back one up uh it's $500 New Zealand
uh which looks to be about $311 us now I talked to olly on Instagram and he's actually going to
hopefully get one of these prototype units to me so I can get my Hands-On review you and that's why
I want to ask you guys what do you want to know about this modification uh in terms of what it
can do what it can't what can you rig to it uh and any questions you may have leave in the comments
below and I will get as many of them answered as possible once I can get my hands on this thing but
for now if you want to watch more content on it you should definitely go check out uh threefold
they got an early look into this mod and they made a video on it as well so I'll leave their
video Linked In the description below the last sort of self-plug I want to point out to anyone
who's still watching is I'm actually building a huge pocket 6K 6K Pro 6K Pro fullframe uh
course and guide since I've been covering these cameras for so many years and once it's complete
I'm going to put it up for about 150 bucks but while I build it out as a pre-sale I have it set
to under 30 bucks so if you want to join that and get a ton of sample footage every everything you
need to know about any of the pocket cameras how to use them how to color grade them how to deal
with workflows and data management and what accessories to buy uh the best gimbals that
balance with it so if you want to learn more about that you can check it out in the link
in the description down below as well I know we're all still waiting for our friends at Blackmagic to
build the Box camera that we're truly dreaming of but until that day comes I can't tell you how much
I appreciate these modification ear is that the word I said before I don't even know it's like 2:
a.m. now it's seems like a lot of hard work went into building this mod so I'm super excited to
check it out thanks so much for watching get subscribed and I'll see you guys in the next video