Blackmagic casually announces 12K URSA Mini Pro Camera

[Yannick Willox]

I wasn’t joking you know 😀

of course, we should make fun of the guy on DPreview, more so as he probably meant it.

i have been using p4k and p6k cams in multicam shoots lately, and I have to say they are pretty impressive. The GH5 and GH5s cannot keep up with the image quality. The P6k already allows for a decent crop in post. They all keep running until the 1tb  ssd drives are full.

No overheating signs ...

If I would this kind of jobs on a daily basis, I would already have bought the 12k as a main cam.

[Anaconda_]

Nobody even has this camera yet, and BMD have released a pretty amazing update for it.

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Increase 12K 2.4:1 maximum frame rate to 75 fps.

Increase 8K DCI, 16:9 and 6:5 Anamorphic to 120 fps.

Increase 4K DCI, 16:9 and 6:5 Anamorphic to 120 fps.

Increase 8K 2.4:1 and 4K 2.4:1 to 160 fps.

Increase 4K Super 16 to 240 fps.

Adds Blackmagic RAW stills capture support.

Adds broadcast lens connector support.

Also updated RS readout times:

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12k 17:9 -> 15.55ms
12k 2.4:1 -> 12.27ms
8k 17:9 (full FOV) -> 7.78ms
4k 17:9 (full FOV) -> 7.78ms
6k Super16 -> 7.78ms
8k 2.4:1 (full width) -> 6.13ms
4k 2.4:1 (full width) -> 6.13ms
4k Super16 -> 3.89ms

(source https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=117834&start=400#p669631)

 

[Emanuel]

What a bomb... Hard to beat over a tripod ; )

[IronFilm]

3 hours ago, Anaconda_ said:

4k Super16 -> 3.89ms

That is INCREDIBLE. 

For 99% of us we don't need global shutter.

[Geoff CB]

3 hours ago, Anaconda_ said:

Nobody even has this camera yet, and BMD have released a pretty amazing update for it.

Also updated RS readout times:

 

Wow. That is one hell of a spec list.

[Geoff CB]

3 hours ago, Anaconda_ said:

Adds Blackmagic RAW stills capture support.

 

Ohhh I'm interested to see that. 

[Anaconda_]

That's what I thought about Blackmagic RAW stills. Then I remembered it only makes things harder to edit really. For example, at the moment stills on the pocket cameras are DNGs which you can open and edit in basically anything. That's not going to be the case with Braw stills.

Also, I was kind of hoping we'd see a hack to exploit the DNG stills. Some kind of rapid fire 24fps stills function, essentially bringing back DNG video, but as a hack so BMD aren't liable to the patent BS... Maybe they also thought the same and want to put a stop to such a thing before it happens.

[newfoundmass]

Blackmagic is one of the smartest companies today. While it feels like everyone else is thinking short term, they're clearly looking at the long game, especially with this release. I have no idea what their finances are like, but if they can maintain this direction they'll have so many advantages over everyone else, given their focus on the entire work flow from start to finish. 

[Neumann Films]

My 12K URSA arrives in two days and I’m beyond stoked to play with this thing. Honestly it has a lot hype to live up to (for me personally)

[Mr. Freeze]

Guten Tag @Neumann Films 

great to hear that your 12K URSA is on its way. I´m looking forward to the first samples.

What I´ve already seen from BMD and John Brawley looked awesome. I just like the BM Color-Science and BRAW aswell. Back then it was CDNG and ProRes with the BMCC and the original Pocket, ahead of Canon here. Now it is the great Codec in combination with an enormous amout of recording-modes and really high-res formats.

[majoraxis]

A good reminder to make sure your lens can focus to infinity when you swap lens mounts on the URSA Mini Pro 12k.  Also, as far as he was zooming in, a softer image is expected, but of course not out of focus.  Here's to the Belushi-esque unboxing, permanent marker and all.

 

 

[scotchtape]

He does mention the noise issue towards the end, hopefully that gets sorted, looks pretty bad zoomed in (which is one of the use cases for 12K)