okay okay okay i get it you want a comparison between the red commodore 6k and the black magic
pocket cinema 6k which we can now make happen because on this very special occasion we have
chicago cinematographer jesse schroeder here who is proud owner of the bmpcc 6k
park at 6k we're gonna talk about this these two cameras in this video and compare them
very unscientifically exciting like most camera reviews or comparisons
it's it's most more often than not than how you use the camera yeah it depends on how you use
the camera and it's often more often apples versus oranges we will just have some fun with it right
let's jump right into a footage sequence where which we mix up these two cameras and you gonna
guess in the comments below which one's the apple which one's the orange this doesn't mean anything
right now don't let it sway your opinion yeah i don't you know maybe maybe not and then we will
tell you what it is and talk way more about these two cameras just right after this see in a second
so
the moment that you've been all waiting for the big reveal of which ones the orange and
which ones the apple you ready on three okay jesse one two three oh my god so
was that surprising did you guess a right i'm surprised
both awesome but did you guess what the wiener camera
did you guessed the wiener camera what could it be well i tell you it's the gopro hero 8.
all right so this is what we're gonna do today we've already seen in the intro sequence a run
and gun scenario which is akin to my style of filmmaking now we're gonna talk about specs
because that's what you do in this kind of video and then we're gonna take both of these cameras
and we're gonna go up to my studio i usually work as a cinematographer uh which means i'm
carrying out the big division of a director um and so we're gonna play with some artificial light and
see what these cameras work like or look like in a working scenario on set but first specs venture
all right so before we get into this specs banter a quick disclaimer jesse this this is literally
just for fun i'm just gonna break down kind of the specs at the end of the day these are just tools
they're data collection devices with a sensor on it that's capturing light your story comes
first and then the gear disclaimer disclaimer and please also keep it civil in the comments we know
that there's a lot of passion behind both cameras depending on which one you own yeah but both have
a lot of fanboys out there so i heard about that too it's just cameras just gears just gear all
right jesse all right start with the basics what's your resolution 6k same it's in the name all right
what's your maximum resolution 6k we just thought we just got over that what's your highest frame
rate can go to 40 and 40 frames yeah sensor i gave you 50 frames full sensor wow how about sensor
readout mine has a rolling shutter global shutter and i think that's one of the biggest differences
um exactly codex mine can do b-raw in about six different flavors of raw um 12-bit and can do four
different flavors of prores 10-bit cool can i do simultaneous recording i just cannot do sandwiches
mine neither but i can choose redcoat raw in three flavors so far uh lq mq and hq
and two flavors of prores and neither can record 6k in progress they're only only 4k how much is
your camera 2 000 how much does your camera cost maybe we should not start with that yeah maybe not
what kind of mount do you have i have an ef mount which can be converted to a pl mount
wow i have a rf mount cool which can be converted to an ef mount right but it's all
but that's another thing you have to buy yeah but do you have nd's no no i don't have any ds
me neither no that's another another thing you have to do but i can put it in my adapter and
then i have it right i could probably buy that too no actually i can't cool what kind of media
is your camera shoot on c fast 2.0 same literally the same thing okay all right how about how about
power it runs off bp batteries straight in uh one battery a 955 bp 955 gives you one and a
half hours how could you mine internally takes in canon lp e6 that lasts about a whopping 40 minutes
not great what kind of audio options do you have i have a beautiful microphone jack a little eighth
inch microphone jack that you use for your iphone 3.5 millimeters yeah i have xlr with phantom power
and line and bike and stereo it's a mini xl mini xlr how about buttons i have one two three four
five buttons and a record button and buttons to eject the batteries great i've got buttons
for both iso shutter white balance three custom function buttons plus a high frame rate button
changing high frame rate one one button plus two silly record buttons like one here and right there
what's the point what's the point of this put it somewhere else put it through it put it right here
please yeah thank you next time what's your color depth raw and then 10 bit for prores 16 bit
and you know what that goes with very very nicely with 16 stops of dynamic range it's pretty nice
i get about 13 stops what about autofocus yeah how is your autofocus absolute trash
but but i only manual focus right like this those are cinema cameras but this camera has
an autofocus and it's continuous as well so that's dope oh forgot what kind of media does your camera
record to you wait i already said that i know but i can also record to usbc that's why you brought
it up again it's cheaper that's why you brought it up again you just totally forgot about that
you can reorder that no i won't reorder that i will put this very much to the end because
you forgot about that because i did forget about that yes you don't need to do it because i never
use it i never use it exactly because it may fall out real easily well again like these are
two very very capable cameras it really depends on what you do with it and and you know like what
your needs are i started my first cinema camera was the black magic pocket cinema camera the
original pocket yeah it was not oh it was not called medicine pocket it was like black magic
cinema camera oh let me get a big block about to take a trip down memory lane here here we go
oh my god i remember this thing wow yeah this is an oldie the first compact digital film camera
with 13 stops of dynamic range 2.5 k sensor ssd recorder funny thing is this was actually a
groundbreaking camera for the the time yeah but it was like had it only had an internal battery and
oh my god yeah it was oh my gosh here we go it was so clunky look at this thing flashback
it's a flashback oh my gosh records to ssds with prores uh very high dynamic range but it
has a record button but again workflow the workflow is terrible on this thing
all right well with that let's go over to your studio let's go to the studio
and let's light with some rgb lights and some haze how does a bigger
dope right i really love the energy that jesse created in this piece and i'm also thoroughly
impressed by the pocket 6k the image that's coming out of it and while yes this camera
has its flaws and shortcomings which one doesn't the image that it produces looks
really really good and especially for two thousand dollars i don't think there's any
other camera that really challenges it for its value and so it makes it a very good
entry-level camera for people who are diving into the cinema camera space and this is one
of the reasons why you won't likely see that much of a difference in the side-by-side
footage that i'm going to show you because the scenario was also a fairly low dynamic range
setting like both in the studio as well as like then after sunset so let's check out some footage
all right i hope you enjoyed this kind of different camera comparison i mean frankly
we never set out to do these kind of standard head-to-head tests that would be certainly more
scientific and comparable but rather we wanted to show you some fun footage and give you a little
bit of an idea of how we shoot with these cameras in a real-world scenario if you enjoyed this video
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