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I had been a projectionist for a long time (now this profession has died), and from 2000 on I had also been a digital projectionist. Until 2011, when automation finally killed the job, I used to compare my own stuff to the DCPs, side by side on the big screens, in the last two years also as DCPs, when easyDCP and openDCP became available. The largest screen was 78 feet x 32 feet (that's for scope, for 16:9 the width then was 58 feet). First thing I noticed is that resolution doesn't influence sharpness to the expected degree. And it also doesn't influence subjective quality very much. In fact, an upscaled SD DVD ( anamorph pixels with scope-crop, really the worst way to treat a video) could be shown to a big audience, and (back then) nobody complained, the class-A hardware scalers made it look good. I know this is hard to believe, but we once had a festival with student films, ranging from DVD, BD to genuine DCP (a Red!), and the one best looking was a masterfully graded HVX200 short, played from SD DVD. On the other hand, there was a way to know instantaneously what was film and what was video: Colors. I know this comparison is only 8-bit, but I have to find a way to describe aesthetic subtleties here. With a camera like the GH2 ("Musgo"), for example, one would be well advised to fill the frame with detail, textures (resolution, that's the GH2s strength) and not with skies and other big areas of glorious colors. Right now we grade for 8-bit, so 12-bit raw is *just* a bigger palette for grading. Color depth seems to add a new dimension to our video. It's fun to tear the, er, bloom off the images and to dive through the colors. Would it stand against an Alexa? I can't tell, really, but I'm convinced it would do better than many others. I can't wait to see a DCP with the 12-bit preserved in my old cinema.

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Very nice review as always. I would add this: o. Takes 24 to 30 1920x1080 RAW (DNG) photographs per second. These images can be post-processed by almost every photo processing software known to man :) o. Showing 24 fully-realized photos per second is what real film does. o. If you were on a million dollar movie set and shot side-by-side with the production camera and showed it in a theater most people would not see much of a difference. Am I wrong? o. If the BMPCC shot 720p it would be a fantastic achievement! I'll argue the camera is already 2nd gen. o. The BMPCC simply blows away camcorders from a few years ago. o. Davinci Resolve Lite adds thousands to the value of the camera. o. H.264 looks like complete crap in low-light. The BMPCC has a natural grain/noise look. Sensor size doesn't even come into play. o. The 5D3 is it's closest competitor and the CF cards are very expensive and ML untrustworthy. The only negative about the camera for me is I no longer have ANY EXCUSE whatsoever to film anything creative. Yes, it's easy to want this and that lens, and rig, and whatever. Yet what you can do with the BMPCC and a cheap 14-45 IOS lens is, quite simply, STAGGERING. Seriously, every day I don't use it I feel a bit ashamed.

Just got a loaner of this camera for testing purposes. Took it out around Chinatown for some street shooting. Camera is very sharp, very convenient in good light. 24-200mm f/2.8 is a dream and produces nice-looking bokeh. Haven't tested it in poor light yet. Haven't tried 60p either.

can you check out the 5d mark lll on the big screen too…?

You can always adapt nikon lenses to ef with full aperture control but not the other way around, that is why I buy almost all my lenses in Nikon mount. The play in the release button is normal, every pocket camera has it.

i think the pre36 and 36 are equal in this matter, but I don't have mine around... The rotation is veeery close to 360 degrees. And the throw is close to 1cm, i'd say. not precise values, but can help if you want some rough info immediately. :P

You'll still be able to make adjustments to white balance, but you'll lose a bit of freedom. I suggest doing a rough color balance and exposure adjustment in Resolve (applying it to all similar clips using the appropriate button in the raw tab), and then exporting to ProRes. This way you get the best of both worlds.