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It is only a starting point, from which you will hopefully continue to research and find what best suits your workflow. Since I haven’t received my Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K ( Amazon, B&H) yet at the time of this writing most of this guide is conjecture – the result of relying on information provided by BMD, educated guesses and my personal experience and analysis based on the work I’ve done with earlier cameras. To do things over again for me personally I would have likely got a 4k as I love vintage lenses as well as anamorphics.Exclusive Bonus: Download 4 cinematic LUTs for the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K and 4K, for free. As far as port selection they are identical and they are just about the same size physically, the EF mount area for the 6k is just a bit longer.īoth cameras are amazing value for the price and you get access to the paid version of Davinci Resolve, which I highly recommend. You can crop as well as downscale the 6k image to 4k and reduce digital noise which is a nice option. If you already have EF access the 6k is great and you don't have to worry about losing image quality by using a speedbooster. Now that being said the 6k has less of a crop factor which is nice (about 1.85 on the 4k, about 1.58 on the 6k if I recall). I didn't think of these things when I bought my 6k. The 6k does not have 4k blackmagic RAW, you can only shoot 4k in prores currently on it. Adapting vintage lenses such as Canon FD to EF is a huge pain due to the flange distance of the EF mount by nature. Consider this for example:Īn anamorphic lens for EF would cost about 10x more. The 4k has a number of high end lenses at an affordable price.
