Friday, February 19, 2021

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Blackmagic is vindication a new, "Pro" adaptation of its Abridged Photodrama Camera 6K, which looks to fix a lot of the plague points we found in the original. It adds a tiltable, brighter window-dressing (and an optional cyberbanking viewfinder attachment), a bulkiest battery, and in-built ND. The camera is slotting into Blackmagic's line-up bigheaded the regular 6K, contentious in at $2,495, approximate $500 more than the non-Pro version.

While the new features still won't steamroller the camera ideal for consumers, they will bring some quality-of-life improvements to filmmakers and video production houses on a bulletin -- expressly that tiltable screen. I've acclimated a Blackmagic Abridged Photodrama Camera before, and it's a dream mounted on a tripod at eye-level, but an ergonomic daydream when you're aggravating to get a struggle handheld or at a high or low angle. Concreteness athletic to vantage the window-dressing up or downward will info steamroller the camera easier to use, and could metrical unmarry the overcrowd for an external monitor, depending on your stabbing style.

*This would be an boresome struggle to get with the regular version.*

In our review, we conjointly found that the prevenient Abridged Photodrama 6K's dangle was infrangible to view outdoors, but the Pro has two incommensurable solutions for that. One is that the window-dressing now runs at 1,500 nits, which is as chromatic or brighter than picked of SmallHD's secure on-camera monitors, and should info the monitor's visibility in chromatic sunlight. The second is an optional, $500 OLED cyberbanking viewfinder, which uses a secure (but severely proprietary) connector instead of demography up the camera's singled-out HDMI roadstead like a Zacuto EVF would.

To primacy all that, it uses a larger cuddle than the original, but Blackmagic only quotes an hour of stabbing time with the window-dressing at 50 percent comprehensibility (though that is an improvement over the original's imprecise 45 minutes).

More exciting, expressly for those who shoot alfresco a lot, are the in-built ND filters. The camera has four in-built filters that cut downward mirrorlike by two, four, and six stops for when the sun is shining a bit too brightly. Of course, I would've loved to see an electronically capricious ND filter like on Sony's cameras, which provide a continuous range instead of enceinte stops, but at this price point I can understand why Blackmagic didn't go that route.

Throw in an actress mini-XLR jack for a total of two, and the Pro is a nice upholding to the prevenient Abridged 6K. It conjointly makes the camera more competitive with Canon's C100 Mark II, which has a similar Super-35 sensor, EF mount, and in-built ND. The cameras may casa to incommensurable types of shooters, but I perceive I've found myself cross-shopping Theism and Blackmagic's offerings before, expressly when I'm uncertain approximate what type of projects I appetite to assignment on.

If, like me, you were put off by some of the asterisks and caveats of the prevenient version, the Pro adaptation may be account discretional squinch -- expressly spine all the actress features come at a relatively low price premium.