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Blackmagic Design Demonstrates
Innovative Production Camera 4K
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lackmagic Design demonstrated
the new Blackmagic Production
Camera 4K at NAB 2013. The
camera is a high resolution
4K digital film camera with an
innovative large Super 35 size
sensor with professional global
shutter, combined with precision EF
mount optics and high quality Apple
ProRes 422 (HQ) ﬁle recording.
The latest high end televisions
and video projectors support
Ultra HD, which is four times the
resolution of regular HD video. The
Blackmagic Production Camera 4K
shoots to high quality compressed
CinemaDNG RAW and ProRes 422
(HQ) ﬁles in 4K, giving customers
a complete solution to shoot the
most amazing high resolution
music videos, episodic television
production, television commercials,
sports, documentaries, news stories,
interviews and feature films.
The new Blackmagic Production
Camera 4K also supports the new
6G-SDI video connection out so it
can be used on live video production.
Blackmagic Production Camera
4K has been designed with
portability and durability in mind.
With standard connections and
an internal battery packed inside
a beautiful machined aluminium
design, the Blackmagic Production
Camera 4K will easily handle the
rigors of location work. A high
resolution LCD display shows
settings such as shutter speed,
colour temperature, aperture
and timecode in an easy to read
status strip. The built in capacitive
touchscreen offers direct access to
menus with a touch of the ﬁnger and
allows changing settings such as
recording format, shutter angle and
more. The touchscreen also allows
users to enter important metadata

Blackmagic Design’s Production Camera 4K was displayed at this year’s NAB Show

that is compatible with popular
video editing software including
Final Cut Pro X.
With a large Super 35 size sensor,
cinematographers get familiar
framing and behaviour from the
lenses they already own. This camera
sensor features a global shutter and
its large size allows minimal crop
factor so cinematographers get
nice wide angle shots from their
wide angle lenses. When working
in HD customers can use the
high resolution images to reframe
and zoom into shots without any
quality loss.
With the built in EF compatible
lens mount there is a wide choice
of optics to take advantage of the
large Super 35 size sensor without
cropping. Cinematographers get
the choice of the world’s most
amazing optics from leading lens
crafters like Canon, Zeiss and more,

with full electronic control. The EF
compatible lens mount means
customers are not locked into a
speciﬁc lens and even professional
cinema lenses with EF mount with
professional rails and follow focus
accessories can be used.
The Blackmagic Production
Camera 4K easily captures 4K in
compressed CinemaDNG RAW and
ProRes 422 (HQ) using the built in
high speed SSD recorder. Once
the shoot has wrapped, the disk
can be connected to a computer
for editing or colour correction
of the shots straight from the
disk, which can be formatted in
either HFS+ or ExFAT for Mac and
Windows compatibility. In addition
to the regular CinemaDNG RAW
format, Blackmagic Design will also
implement a QuickTime wrapper
for the open standard CinemaDNG
and companion codec, allowing

the camera to record in a format
that allows RAW editing in popular
editing software.
The wide dynamic range of the
Super 35 sized sensor can be
mapped into the quantising range
of the ﬁle so you can colour grade
shots to allow greater detail in
highlights and shadows. When
working fast, the customer can also
record to regular Rec. 709 video files.
Blackmagic Production Camera
4K uses standard connections, so
customers do not need to worry
about sourcing custom cables. The
camera features 6G-SDI output that
can be down-converted to HD or
used for amazing quality Ultra
HD video. In addition, the device
includes a built-in Thunderbolt
port and UltraScope software for
real-time waveform monitoring. For
audio you get 1/4” jack mic/line
inputs plus 12V to 30V DC input,
a 3.5mm headphone socket and
LANC remote control. And with
a built-in uncompressed audio
recorder you can eliminate post
audio synching altogether.

Connectivity includes
built-in Thunderbolt

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