Blackmagic system can offer you can teach you and can bring you to that next level I think.
Three years ago i was working on a script for short film. I felt i needed a cinema camera
and the bmpcc 4k was the best option. 4k was a great camera. It served me well on the project
but then i realized that i could not make short films every week.
I could make one or two maybe three at best in a year. Besides, making a short film is a teamwork.
It requires several people to operate a cinema camera
properly and the 4k had many inconveniences that need to be overcome by a group of people.
If anything, i just wanted to tell a story and share it with others. I just wanted to do it
more often, at least once or twice every month. So, i started my YouTube channel and i made a choice.
I said goodbye to my 4k then i tried to find the camera that fits my need that comes with all the
convenient features required for a solo operator. But for some reason, i could not forget the images
that blackmagic could offer so i acquired a bmpcc original and i was so satisfied by the results.
And recently thanks to blackmagic design, I was given a chance to use the 6k pro for
several months. Indeed it changed a lot and many of the features i needed were added
so i interviewed myself asking. Are the improvements are great enough to fill my need?
Would i start my filmmaking journey again with bmpcc? And lastly, would i recommend it to you?
The one thing i found very impressive was the fact that the battery life has improved a lot by i think 200%.
Now with the battery grip i can use it for at least two hours outside
which is great I've shot two and a half hours in downtown Toronto the other day and it was still running.
It was very satisfactory for me because i like to have my setup as small as possible and
i don't want to draw any unnecessary attention by having a full, bigger setup. And the battery grip is,
while you're filming it you can take it out and switch the batteries and put it back and
it will be still running so that's very nice.
The screen itself has improved and now it has a better brightness
It's 1500 nit and ninja 5 is only 1000 nit so it's brighter than the external monitor that i have
and i can see everything clearly in daylight situations but one caveat is that
it has a blue tint. And you need to calibrate it and I don't trust my eyes so
I find myself changing the white balance after i shoot. So that's that's one minus.
But as long as you shoot everything in raw it should be fine but if you choose to shoot in
Prores, then you may have to be very careful in your white balance settings.
The ND filters. Internal ND filters and it gives me so much more flexibility in terms of what
kind of filters i put on before my lenses because I don't have to stack up ND and the mist
filters. This is a big plus. I wish it had a two to nine stops. For the most of the time two to five
are good enough but i would have to stop down when it's too bright outside still it is good
to have the internal nd filters. The lenses I have right now because i've sold all my canon lenses
i only have vintage lenses but using the vintage lens is a big plus with the black magic pocket
cinema camera because vintage lenses has a filmic look inside built-in already without the diffusion
filters so you can combine it with the nd filters you'll get a very cinematic image out of the box.
Oh, EVF. It's very interesting. I had no high expectations for it but
for some reason i really like it. It's so convenient and
because it can vary its angles i can hold it like this and it is giving me another
contact point and it gives me a better stabilization
because the body itself does not have any ibis in it unless i'm using the lens ibis.
The quality of EVF is great, so i find myself using it more often than I thought i would be so i like it.
Once again, I was blown away by the image quality. Of course any other camera these days
have a decent quality, but black magic has its own distinctive look with the vintage lenses i have,
it gives you a very cinematic filmic look and i love it. I love the image quality. It's superb.
And despite the inconveniences i have i like to use it because of that look I think I'll be
keeping this camera and i think I'll be using it for my documentary work, personal passion projects,
especially to experiment on the colors and to find the film story look to develop and learn more
about the colors. Speaking of learning the colors, the reason i could learn so much about the color grading
is because of when i purchased the 4k it had the DaVinci resolve studio in it for free
and now if you want to get it, i think it's almost 300 to 400 dollars and it's amazing that they're
offering it for free and it broadened my avenue for filmmaking and it taught me a lot.
You learn about raw files, you learn about log profiles, and if you think you have used the full
capacity of the camera you have, then maybe it is for you to step up to the next level
to enter into the world of colors to imitate the look that you want to find your own look.
And black magic system can offer you can teach you and can bring you to that next level I think.
6k pro is still an inconvenient camera despite the improvements if i wanted to film with it
i must count the cost beforehand and make sure I'm ready to overcome the inconveniences.
If I could get a similar outcome using a more convenient camera I would go with that camera
and that was the reason why i switched back to Sony but after experiencing the 6k pro I realized
that there's something that only 6k pro could provide. To be more precise there's a part in me
that only the image of black magic could satisfy I believe that's the film look i once experienced
when i was learning photography with the film camera. That's the look i want to retrieve.
That's the film story look i want to achieve in my films. I'm still in my journey to find it
and I feel that the 6k pro will be a great helper and companion along with my other cameras
If you're considering to get one please count the cost before and when you think you're ready
answer the call. I can assure you that it will open a new door for you.