Phil A

Kinda bummed there's no BMPCC 2 announcement after all the statements regarding the BMMCC not being the BMPCC successor. Oh well.

But if you have no guide track at all with the camera recordings the synching up gets quite a bit more of a hassle. Therefore a regular 3.5mm jack for scratch audio would have been nice. Sure, it works anyway, just saying.

Afaik so far only the Odyssey7Q+ and the Shogun (with announced firmware update or is it out yet?) do raw. Neither the Blackmagic Design VideoAssist nor Video Devices PIX-E recorders are announced to do it.

I think it's also super important to light it well. I think for the 120fps mode you want ISO 100 - 200. I'm slowly grading my Spain material and I see why people could judge the NX1 too sharp when downscaled to 1080p. I think I'd rather have only 1080p / 2.5K resolution but more color bit depth. What a pity that we directly jumped to 4k and now discuss 6k/8k but never even got really good quality Full HD (10bit 422 thick codec) on a wide front.

That's kinda surprising because if it's at least a stop better, that would mean the BMMCC would have only like 10 stops of DR while they claim 13 (5D III is measured at 11.7 EV DR in stills Raw). Samuel hurtdao measured the usable DR (which everyone defines somewhat different) as 12 EV for BMPCC Raw and 10.3 - 11.3 for the 5DIII Raw (with banding in the last stop of - desaturated - highlights). I'm still impressed with a lot of the videos shot with 5Diii ML Raw but for photography it's really fallen behind, especially for landscape stuff. The current sensors in the Sony, Nikon, etc. lineup made by Sony and Toshiba have just so much more DR that you need graduated ND filters for the 5D to get the same results in landscape photography, for some other stuff (e.g. backlit portrait with strong selective pushing) you're just out of luck due to the strong banding in pushed shadows with Canon. Despite that I think the usability of that camera is best in class, I got super happy when I saw Fuji put the little joystick into the X-Pro2. Makes me curious for what the 5D IV will bring.

The Sony A7s had more noise in silent shutter mode according to people who measured the read noise in the raw files. With some Panasonic cameras (I think GM1?) there was only 10bit instead of 12bit read out in electronic shutter mode. So I think it really depends on the camera model. The rolling shutter is of course a general downside they all share, agreed.

No they don't. You can check the technical specifications on the Canon website or wikipedia. The 5D series always had one digic processor, the corresponding 1 series had dual digic processors. The new 5Ds and 7D II have Dual Digic 6 too, granted I didn't check those because they don't seem to be too popular, but none of those has Magic Lantern available either. And despite Dual Digic 6 they only have 1080p h.264, addition is only the 60p. Seeing how the 5D III had Digic 5+, the 1Dx the Dual Digic 5+, the new 5Ds has Dual Digic 6 and the 1Dx II has Dual Digi 6+, I wouldn't be surprised if the 5D IV had a single Digic 6+. I could imagine that would give 4k 30p which would make basically most people happy. Despite that, I'm actually hoping the 5D IV would be amazing!

Mirrorless cameras still have a mechanical shutter and it has the same shutter actuation expectancy MTTF as a DSLR. The shutter is the weak part, not the mirror. As was mentioned before, there are cameras that can do electronic exposures without using the shutter but as far as I know that will typically reduce the dynamic range by a few stops.

The activity on ML died down so much, I wouldn't be surprised if nothing will come from that side anymore. The 70D is the newest camera "in work". If the 5D IV would get a new Digic processor quick enough for 4k without going the current MJPEG approach of 1Dc / 1DxII (which it probably can't because it traditionally has only one instead of 2 Digic processors and a smaller body [worse for heat management]) but H.264 or H.265, it would probably need completely new work to hack it. If it goes with a compressed 4k codec, it's questionable if the memory bus implementation to whatever card it will use will be fast enough to save 4k raw. The ML people are probably knee deep in the work for the Axiom camera plus there's just so many alternatives available today compared to when the 5D II / 5D III were hacked, my stomach says the Magic Lantern solution will disappear with the 5D III.

Only if you don't need aperture control or autofocus or manual focus. The lenses are controlled completely per wire, would only work with a smart adapter (which clearly no one will make).

They are but you don't get real 10bit. The Sony alpha cameras output only 8bit via HDMI. Saving 8bit data into a 10bit container is still only 8bit. Of course there's the discussion if downscaling 8bit 4:2:0 UHD gives 10bit 4:2:2 1080p but the opinions vary and I think the answer is "not really" regarding the 10bit part.

It won't really help a lot. The colors will be the same and the HDMI out is only 8bit 422. That's not a huge advantage against the internal 8bit 420. Your only advantage would be the higher bit rate of ProRes against h264 helping with compression artifacts like macro blocking. To stick with the picture logic you don't get raw, basically you would re-save the JPEG as a PNG/TIFF. While the file format gives a lot of quality, your source can't fill it.

That sounds to me like it could be the C100 III. Just give it the option betwen 1080p in 10bit 422 AND 4k 8bit 420 like the Sony FS5 has. But then chances are Canon would price it in FS7 territory.

This camera is aimed at photographers though, and not at the professional ones, that is. Video function still mainly is a case of "good enough" with most hybrid cameras.

Looks like a case for the service if you can't fix it with a factory reset.

But it's 4k 10-bit 4:2:2 via the SDI in a probably quite natural rec.709 color that you could record to ProRes HQ 422. If you don't want to grade too far into stylistic ways or bend the colors, that could actually give good results for a lot of people. The question is just how much dynamic range you'd have with that in comparison to everybodies MILC darlings that do a flat 8-bit 4:2:0 image... plus whatever the low light behaviour is.

Regarding the Micro Studio Camera with 4k. Seeing how it's not the same sensor as at BMPC4k I wonder if there's any dynamic range tests out there about it?

In Germany we have ebay-kleinanzeigen.de which is probably kinda like craigslist for ebay I guess? Bare BMCC2.5K is typically like under 1500€, for 2000€ you might find one including a whole bunch of accessories, sometimes even speed booster. For me the BMCC is kinda meh because of the built in batterie that makes a rig with V-mount batteries or so a must. Not exactly great for handholding.

Might be. I sometimes got some image glitches in the splash screen when powering on like a whole bunch of other people reported in reviews and on the Video Devices Facebook page. One review said they had that with the 5 but not the 5H. Hard to judge. The PIX-E5 is already gone again, but I'd consider to rebuy it if I'd need an external recorder. I think it's the best offer at the moment.

Kholi said the pros of the BMMCC are The "improved image" picked my curiosity. Looking forward to 1to1 comparisons with the BMPCC from early adopters.

To complete today's monologue, I already got the answer from VideoDevices: Obviously I missed the fact that it's in the user guide even though I quickly read through it. Dumb, sorry about that. It doesn't mention if there's any "minimum" time to be powered on to activate that. Could you test it @bunk ? Like, cold boot, wait 30 seconds, turn it off, wait a few minutes, turn it on again.

I'm editing my latest Spain trip video... it has a whole bunch of cats... because there was a whole bunch of cats... am I doomed? Mattias seems to do quite well always filming his cute dog.

I'd be curious what the file sizes would be like at 4k 60fps 10bit in MJPEG codec, must be humongous... but does that codec even support 10bit? Because it seems they're really hardware limited in the non-Cx00 bodies regarding compressed codecs, so I see no 10bit possibility without going to some big changes (then the 1DcII couldn't be based on the 1DxII) I think so too and I clearly would love to see it... but I'm also keeping in mind how the camera market declines, I guess there are big question marks over every type of investment. Canon milks old investments, that's not exciting but has a low risk in the short/mid term. I don't really see why they don't pull a X100/X-Pro1 and just put a flip-up EVF into the OVF. That should be rather easy to do, relatively cheap and addressing both camps, the MILC and DSLR crowd. Maybe there's patents in that field that prevent it, I didn't investigate.

This didn't leave me alone so I researched some more. You're right, apparently after it was running for a while it will not take as long to boot up again the next time (the review I found after quite a bit of searching specified cold boot to between 25 to 45 seconds and just said warm boot is much much faster, didn't give a specific time frame). My guess now is that the time frame I used to run it for (I often shoot 10 - 30 second snippets for travel videos so run time probably below a minute each) wasn't long enough to get into the "run warm" zone. I've mailed to the VideoDevices support to ask about this, perhaps they can give a definitive answer. I'm sure people would be thankfull if you could test a bit around this. Compared to how much information is out there around all the cameras the information over field monitors and recorders, especially comparing different ones to each other, is still rather scarce.

But didn't they state that multiple times over the last years before? Same for Nikon. I wish it would really happen. Neither the Canon M nor the Nikon 1 have really impressed the enthusiasts. The last interviews where the Canon manager said that they don't consider mirrorless technology on a sufficient level for a professional system was a bit of a let down. I guess they'd first bring 80D level stuff in mirrorless before we'd see 5D/1D level.