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Black Magic Design

Pocket Cinema Camera

Quick Start Guide

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Page 1: ...Black Magic Design Pocket Cinema Camera Quick Start Guide...

Page 2: ...0 mm lens with hood and UV filter Five batteries with two chargers 3 SD cards suitable for Pro Res HQ or RAW Cinema DNG recording Camera Strap Upgrade this summer Variable ND filter Camera Body Cage O...

Page 3: ...Lens Panasonic G Vario 14 140 mm F 3 5 5 6 Micro Four Thirds standard 28 280 35mm full frame O I S stabilization Auto focus and exposure can be set before recording Telephoto f 5 6 Wide f 3 5...

Page 4: ...Camera Specifications...

Page 5: ...SD cards and Battery go into the same compartment...

Page 6: ...minute maximum charge This duration will decrease in cold weather Each battery takes about two hours to charge Charge all the batteries once you receive the camera Take steps to minimize power usage...

Page 7: ...ve SD cards It has three San Disk Extreme Pro cards rated at 95 MB sec The camera kit has one 64 GB card and two 32 GB cards If you are recording Pro Res HQ at 1080p the file sizes are are about 1 5 G...

Page 8: ...Selecting Meters in the Menu displays the remaining record time histogram and audio meters on the LCD...

Page 9: ...Remaining Recording Time on Card In Hours Minutes...

Page 10: ...Recording Formats...

Page 11: ...ically simply by pressing the IRIS button on the back of the camera The iris aperture f stop can be adjusted manually with the arrow buttons To set ISO White Balance and Shutter Angle like Shutter Spe...

Page 12: ...Exposure settings IRIS button for auto exposure Use arrow buttons to change F Stop manually...

Page 13: ...Select Settings in the Main Menu to Access the Camera Menus...

Page 14: ...Exposure Settings in the Camera Menu Set White Balance by Color Temp increments Set ISO warning there is noise above 800 ISO...

Page 15: ...hutter Angle 180 is the default roughly the same as a shutter speed of twice the frame rate this is the video standard Increasing Shutter Angle increases motion blur and exposure Decreasing Shutter An...

Page 16: ...t you are overexposing outdoors at midday Hence the variable ND filter is required In bright light you can t see a thing on the LCD screen Until the viewfinder arrives you can successfully shoot blind...

Page 17: ...Display Menu Zebra Stripes can be set by percentage The percentage refers to the luminance scale 0 is black 100 is white...

Page 18: ...Recording Menu Set Rec Format Dynamic Range Frame Rate...

Page 19: ...to expose a greater range of luminance from shadows to highlights Use Video dynamic range when the shot contains just shadows and mid tones no highlights If you choose video dynamic range you are auto...

Page 20: ...1 minutes of Pro Res HQ on a 32 GB card as opposed to 10 minutes of RAW Pro Res HQ files can be played directly from a USB 3 hard drive Cinema DNG RAW files require a SSD drive thunderbolt or RAID arr...

Page 21: ...en it comes directly from the camera The video must be normalized or treated with a LUT look up table or color correction to make it appear like a normal contrast and saturated image on your computer...

Page 22: ...Normalizing in Adobe Premiere In Adobe Premiere CC 2015 in the Color workspace use this LUT that is provided in the Lumetri color effect BMC PRORES SL PROFILE...

Page 23: ...f you are using a NTSC display device LCD TV or playing back your video with a media player WDTV or Technovision Use the Digital Cinema frame rates of 24 or 30 if you are shooting for digtial cinema p...

Page 24: ...The Video World NTSC N America C America Venezuela Columbia Ecuador Peru Bolivia Chile Suriname Burma Vietnam Philippines Japan South Korea North Korea some Pacific Islands...

Page 25: ...difficult to judge white balance when viewing in Film Dynamic Range in the LCD the image is washed out Also because the white balance is set in color temperature increments you cannot rely on an auto...

Page 26: ...arrives the camera will not mount on tripods using a longer shoe Use tripods with a small more square shaped shoe the small Manfrotto tripods in the CDA depot are one example The issue is that there...

Page 27: ...Stabilization is ON when the camera is handheld and OFF when the camera is on a tripod...

Page 28: ...Proposed Completed Pocket Camera Kit with Cage Pistol Grip and Viewfinder Variable ND filter not shown The idea is to keep the camera portable unobtrusive and lightweight...

Page 29: ...focusing before you start recording Focus must be changed manually while recording This is going to be extremely difficult until the viewfinder arrives I suggest shooting with a large depth of field...

Page 30: ...he camera are poor Rather than record a signal internally with a tethered recorder record audio externally with a separate recorder Use a Zoom recorder or the CDA sound recording kit Make sure to slat...

Page 31: ...Audio Menu if you care...

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