Pocket 6K Pro Archives

“MFT is not dead” says Blackmagic

Sep 11, 2022 by Alex Baker Leave a Comment

Micro Four Thirds lives! Along with Elvis, according to camera and software giant Blackmagic Design at IBC 2022. DIYP had a lovely chat with Craig Heffernan about the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema cameras. Craig talks to us about both the 6K Pro and the new G2 cameras and gives us his thoughts on the industry from Blackmagic’s perspective.

Blackmagic still has the 4K as an entry point camera, which is a micro-four-thirds based system. But more recently they have updated the 6K to the 6K Pro and introduced the Pocket 6K G2 which is in the mid-range of the 4K and the 6K Pro but still shoots at 6K resolution.

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Blackmagic quietly releases the Pocket Cinema Camera 6K G2 and it’s basically a 6K Pro without built-in ND

Jun 23, 2022 by John Aldred 1 Comment

To absolutely none of the usual Blackmagic fanfare, the company has today released the new Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K G2. It’s a fairly big upgrade over the original Pocket 6K, as it’s essentially a Pocket 6K Pro but without the built-in ND filter, which keeps the price of the 6K G2 at $1,999, same as the original 6K. This also means you get that 5″ tilting touchscreen display, NP-F batteries, optional EVF and Mini-XLR input.

Blackmagic has also announced the new Blackmagic Camera 7.9 Update today, adding 6K G2 support and adding an updated user interface to the Pocket 4K, 6K and 6K Pro, along with focus assist intensity adjustment, custom presets and LUTs are retained after software updates and improved lens and autofocus support. It also adds support for the Pocket 6K G2 to Blackmagic RAW.

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Blackmagic’s new Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro features built-in ND, tilting LCD and bigger battery

Feb 17, 2021 by John Aldred 1 Comment

Blackmagic Design has announced the new Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro. It’s a full-frame version of the regular Pocket 6K, but with some features of the URSA Mini Pro. Blackmagic says that this isn’t just an incremental update to the Pocket 6K and is a completely new design, which is a bit beefier, with a whole bunch of new features.

One new feature, resolving a big complaint of both the Pocket 4K and Pocket 6K is that it has a tilting touchscreen LCD. Yup, that’s right, it’s not fixed anymore, meaning you can easily get those low down and high up shots without always having to resort to an external monitor.

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Blackmagic is announcing something today – Could it be a full-frame Pocket 6K Pro? Watch live here

Jul 16, 2020 by John Aldred 1 Comment

As you can see from the embedded YouTube video above, Blackmagic is going live in a few hours to announce “new developments in cameras”. Blackmagic does “camera updates” like this fairly regularly, but usually, they come with a pretty big announcement. Sometimes it’s a major firmware update that adds major new functionality and sometimes it’s a whole new camera.

If it is a new camera, though, what could it be? With all the talk of the EOS R5 over the last few months and its full-frame 8K RAW, might Blackmagic be getting to release a new challenger? Could they be announcing an update to the Pocket 6K? A “Pocket 6K Pro” with a full-frame sensor that doesn’t overheat after 20 minutes?

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