hi is the camera that you're going to pay over five grand for only a super 35 4K sensor
sure you can get 4k 120 but you can't do it in raw the display super small not to mention
it's incredibly dim you can barely see it in the sunlight and why can't Brands like
Canon and Sony and Panasonic understand that their camera menu systems are some of the
worst designs I think I've ever seen got it just don't get why so many people like this
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foreign so everything that I yelled passionately about in the beginning of this video truly
was my con list for this camera well I'm not going to sit here and tell you resolution
is the most important thing by any means nowadays to spend over five grand for a camera body
and only have 4K on a super 35 sensor isn't necessarily raising the bar and codex on cameras
like this always bug me because on cameras like my Blackmagic I can pretty much choose
b-raw for everything even if I'm in 2.8 K windowed 120 it's still be wrong maybe my
muscle memory has just been tied to Blackmagic for too long and that's just an unfair bias
I'll accept that one if you disagree with it but the thing I don't think we can disagree
on is the fact that the screen is really small I understand like I don't know the fix for
it on this camera I mean if we look at the back you have a very big battery down here
and battery life on this camera is pretty incredible every day that I took this out
to shoot I wasn't doing all day crazy you know film sets or anything but I happily left
the house with my family with one battery knowing I was going to be good for the afternoon
out and I never once had a battery die on me and so with that taking up a healthy amount
of space on the bottom half of the camera I understand why this is the largest screen
it's just really sad because again if I compare it to my pocket 6K Pro with a I believe five
or five and a half inch screen it's incredibly bright I believe at a thousand nits I don't
even know what knits this has but it needs it needs some more knits in bright daylight
I cannot see if I had nailed focus and in my anamorphic video that I recently released
there's a number of shots that were just quite a bit out of focus and that also transitions
to the bad menu system I the entire two weeks that I've had this camera admittedly I have
not been able to get focus peaking to work right I've gone in the menus I've enabled
focus peaking it seems to be on the setting that I'd want every time I hit the peeking
button on the side of the camera it almost looks like the contrast on the screen change
but there's there's no like red or green or any colored lines that's showing up I'm sure
it's capable of that and I just don't have the setting right but it's just further proof
that like someone who has never used Cinema cameras before I promise you if they if they
know the terminology if they know what focus peaking was and you handed them these two
cameras they're going to figure out how to turn on focus peaking on this one astronomically
faster than on this camera but with all of that out of the way wow the final image that
you get with this camera you know it makes the cons not look so Connie not even the feeling
in the hand is exactly what I wish and what I think every pocket camera owner Wishes the
Blackmagic pocket camera felt like yes we all want the cube Blackmagic but if they're
to stick with this like DSLR kind of you know the integrated grip design Choice from materials
to the overall Design This is the hybrid of a DSLR mirrorless and a cube shaped cinema
camera because it's got a fat back here but you still have the integrated handle it is
definitely a good couple inches shorter in width than the pocket camera which makes it
a lot more gimbal friendly this is a very wide camera and it's very hard to balance
on a lot of consumer gimbals or at least it used to be this just feels really tight in
the hands feels just I love the design of this camera speaking of gimbals it's even
got great mounting points not only do we have the Dual quarter 20s so you can have no twisting
issues on a camera plate you can actually take out this adapter and you have a 3 8 thread
but you also have two quarter twenties on the sides which would allow you to offset
on a gimbal maybe or any sort of different plate you have a lot of mounting options without
even needing a cage also for Run and Gun documentary gorilla filmmaking or parent filmmakers the
start and stop of this camera is also very impressive considering it's you know in the
cinema camera clasp when you turn it on honestly within like two seconds you can start recording
it is very very quick which is nice to see and kind of really satisfying on and off switch
if I'm being honest the built-in NDS are great it's got loads of custom buttons I think it's
got like 12 of them that you can map to various different settings you got dual card slots
both of them are SDXC I love love love how all of the ports have individual caps on them
I don't like when cameras have so many ports under one flat because so much of the time
you're just using one port but then you exposed to the elements all of the other ports under
that flap whereas here basically every single one has its own thing so oh I want to use
this I don't think I meant to fully take it off but there we go say I just wanted to use
this mini XLR Port now everything else is still covered and you do have good recording
options obviously you got the normal frame rates and stuff and you guys know me I love
shooting in raw you get the benefits of changing things like white balance and post but to
be honest I'm I'm a sucker okay I have I haven't had 4K 120 on many of my personal cameras
before and so I got a little spoiled I didn't want to take this out on gimbals and big rigs
I want to be really quick and Nimble and just enjoy this camera experience and so yeah a
lot of the sample footage is just straight up 4K 120 and it looks great but do you know
why it looks so great do you know what is the single selling point of this camera in
my opinion come here it's the same reason that the original pocket camera was so revered
by so many people especially for the time which by the way was only a 1080p HD camera
and at the time people enjoyed the look of that camera more than its 4K competitors and
that's because of dynamic range the spec that I personally hold most deer to my heart and
this thing has 16 plus stops of advertised dynamic range and I threw an advertised there
because that's what's on the paper so for example this guy right here is 13 stops but
when I've seen people test it it's usually around 11 and a half maybe 12 depending what
ISO you're on 16 plus stops is Airy and red level territory and it just makes everything
you shoot so nice the other thing which I knew was going to be good because I've edited
Canon footage over the years for various different projects they're color science their noise
levels are just so dreamy like you don't even even have to really color grade A lot of the
clip like look look at this footage right here I'm not touching these clips in post
they just look great right out of camera or if you shoot in raw and log you just throw
on the simple Rec 709 conversion Canon colors they just have their science down it naturally
has a warmer tone to it but it's a very pleasing warm tone a lot of times on cameras that I
think could use a little bit more color cyan C work to them no offense DJI I know it looks
good but it takes some finessing to really get skin tones and everything to at least
the way I like the look and here it just looks great out of the box their autofocus for autofocus
lenses are also incredible again I know this isn't news to anyone who's used it before
but if you are a fellow Blackmagic owner and maybe this is one of the cameras you've been
debating switching to because you want autofocus the autofocus on this camera is incred edible
while I certainly had my frustrations like I mentioned in the beginning of this video
with this camera overall I have very much enjoyed my experience the past couple of weeks
playing with it I just want to say a quick thank you to Canon for sending this camera
out for a couple of weeks there was no obligation to make any sort of content or video of any
kind they said if you just want to play with it test it out give us some feedback on what
you like and don't like that's totally fine so this is not a sponsored video and while
I certainly have some clear cons to the camera overall I've been very happy with my experience
so thank you all for watching and I would love to hear your comments down below what
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