Blackmagic joins L-mount with 6K full-frame cinema digicam

Blackmagic Design has launched the Blackmagic Cinema Digicam 6K, a brand new cinema digicam with a 6K full-frame sensor. That is the model’s first full-frame mannequin and with this digicam, Blackmagic Design have formally joined the L-mount alliance that features Leica and Panasonic, as proven on the L-mount alliance web site. This digicam is now out there for $2,595 from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide.

Two different Micro 4 Thirds cinema cameras have been additionally introduced, the Blackmagic Micro Studio Digicam 4K G2 and the Blackmagic Studio Digicam 4K Plus G2. The Blackmagic Digicam iPhone app, which supplies customers digital cinema digicam controls and cinematic appears to be like, was additionally launched and is now out there on the App Retailer as a free obtain.

Blackmagic Cinema Digicam 6K Options:

• 36 x 24mm full body 6K 6048 x 4032 sensor.
• Open gate 3:2, full peak 6:5 anamorphic and Tremendous 35 for creating cinematic content material.
• L-Mount suitable with a variety of nonetheless pictures and cinema lenses.
• Data full decision as much as 36 fps or 120 fps windowed.
• Quick CFexpress card recording.
• Adjustable, HDR 1500 nit LCD display screen.
• Non-obligatory Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Digicam Professional EVF.
• Bigger NP-F570 battery, elective Blackmagic Pocket Digicam Battery Professional Grip.

From Blackmagic:

IBC 2023, Amsterdam, Netherlands – Friday, September 15, 2023 – Blackmagic Design immediately introduced the Blackmagic Cinema Digicam 6K, a brand new excessive finish digital movie digicam with a full body 6K sensor, 13 stops of dynamic vary, L-Mount lens mount and twin native ISO as much as 25,600 for unimaginable low gentle efficiency and recording to CFexpress playing cards. This new mannequin contains a large 24 x 36mm 6K sensor, permitting for big format cinema digicam picture high quality in a conveyable, light-weight physique. Blackmagic Cinema Digicam 6K additionally makes use of an L-Mount for lenses which works with a variety of latest and classic lenses for a wider vary of artistic selections. Blackmagic Cinema Digicam 6K is accessible instantly from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide for US$2,595.

The Blackmagic Cinema Digicam 6K can be demonstrated on the Blackmagic Design IBC 2023 sales space #7.C49.

The brand new Blackmagic Cinema Digicam 6K is a particularly excessive finish digital movie digicam that produces exact pores and skin tones and wealthy natural colours. The digicam contains a large full body 24 x 36mm 6K sensor with broad dynamic vary, a really versatile L-Mount for lenses and a in-built optical low go filter that’s customized to match the sensor. Clients additionally get quick CFexpress media and the digicam may even use Pocket Cinema Digicam equipment. When clients are doing cloud and cell work, the digicam data each deep bit depth Blackmagic RAW and H.264 proxies on the similar time. No different digicam contains this stage of expertise, picture high quality and portability.

Blackmagic Cinema Digicam 6K contains a large full body sensor with a local decision of 6048 x 4032. That’s nearly 3 times bigger than a Tremendous 35 sensor and permits clients to shoot with a shallow depth of area or to make use of anamorphic lenses uncropped for a real cinematic look. Whether or not customers are capturing in brilliant daylight or in nearly no gentle in any respect, the 13 stops of dynamic vary with twin native ISO as much as 25,600 present beautiful low noise photos in all lighting circumstances. Plus clients can shoot as much as 36 fps at full sensor decision or 120 fps windowed.

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The big full body sensor in Blackmagic Cinema Digicam 6K lets clients work in quite a lot of movie codecs and facet ratios with out sacrificing high quality. Utilizing the complete space of the sensor offers clients a novel open gate 3:2 picture which additionally lets clients reframe their photographs in put up manufacturing. The big sensor additionally lets clients work in true 6:5 anamorphic with out cropping, making widescreen cinematic photos extra detailed and in increased decision than beforehand doable. Clients may even use the basic Tremendous 35 sized window on the sensor to create an instantaneous ‘shut up’ model of their shot that matches seamlessly with open gate footage. All this lets clients create distinctive cinematic content material within the highest high quality.

Blackmagic Cinema Digicam 6K options an L-Mount, a sophisticated lens mount designed to accommodate full body sensors whereas guaranteeing compatibility with new and classic lenses. With a big diameter of 51.6mm, L-Mount works with the most recent full body lenses from producers akin to Leica, Panasonic and Sigma. Plus, a really quick flange distance of solely 20mm means clients can simply add adapters for quite a lot of lens mounts with out impacting picture high quality. With L-Mount, clients get a single mount that works with nearly any lens for limitless artistic selection.

Blackmagic Cinema Digicam 6K can shoot in all commonplace resolutions and body charges from HD as much as DCI 4K and even 6K. Clients may even shoot stills at 24.6 megapixels. Blackmagic Cinema Digicam 6K will shoot as much as 36 fps at 6048 x 4032 3:2 open gate or 60 fps at 6048 x 2520 2.4:1 and 60 fps at 4096 x 2160 4K DCI. For increased body charges clients can window the sensor and shoot as much as 100 fps at 2112 x 1184 Tremendous 16. Clients may even work in true anamorphic 6:5 at a lot increased resolutions than different cameras utilizing anamorphic lenses in 4.8K 24 fps at 4838 x 4032. Clients may even shoot 120 fps in 1080HD.

The Blackmagic Cinema Digicam 6K contains a in-built CFexpress card recorder, and a USB-C enlargement port for recording direct to exterior flash media disks or an SSD. CFexpress media are extra sturdy and quicker than even older media so are good for recording full decision, 12-bit Blackmagic RAW recordsdata. Think about capturing over an hour of full decision 6K photos on a single 256GB CFexpress card.

Blackmagic Cinema Digicam 6K options a big, brilliant 5 inch HDR touchscreen that makes it straightforward for purchasers to border photographs and precisely focus, regardless of the circumstances. On display screen overlays present standing and report parameters, histogram, focus peaking indicators, ranges, body guides and extra. Clients can shortly apply 3D LUTs for monitoring photographs with the specified shade and look. The LCD monitor may even be tilted as much as 180 levels flat and right down to 47 levels so it’s straightforward to watch their shot from nearly any place. Plus, its HDR show options 1500 nits of brightness, so clients can at all times body their shot, even in brilliant daylight.

Blackmagic Cinema Digicam 6K helps an elective viewfinder to make outdoor and handheld capturing correct and straightforward. Clients get an built-in top quality 1280 x 960 shade OLED show with in-built proximity sensor, 4 ingredient glass diopter for unimaginable accuracy with a large -4 to +4 focus adjustment. The EVF is extraordinarily straightforward to connect with the Blackmagic Cinema Digicam 6K because it merely mounts on prime of the digicam with a single screw.

Blackmagic Cinema Digicam 6K makes use of excessive capability NP-F570 batteries. A locking DC energy connector is used so clients received’t have to fret about dropping energy throughout a shoot. Plus the included AC plug pack can energy the digicam or cost the battery when the digicam isn’t in use. Even the USB-C enlargement port can trickle cost the battery, so clients can use moveable battery packs, cell phone chargers or laptops. The elective battery grip lets clients add further batteries to dramatically prolong the ability of the digicam so clients can maintain capturing all day.

“With the brand new Blackmagic Cinema Digicam 6K, we wished to create probably the most moveable digicam doable for prime finish, massive format cinematography,” mentioned Grant Petty, Blackmagic Design CEO. “That’s why we took the Pocket Cinema Digicam platform however utterly re-engineered the electronics inside round a full body sensor and L-Mount. This implies our clients get wonderful massive format photos in a particularly moveable design that additionally works with the equipment they already personal. The L-Mount additionally opens up some wonderful artistic choices like utilizing the most recent Leica lenses or utilizing classic lenses clients already personal in a completely new means. This can be a true excessive finish cinema digicam designed for prime finish work and we expect it offers our clients an entire new method to inform their tales!”

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