The New Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro

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The New Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro is an advanced technology, handheld 6K digital film camera with 6144 x 3456 Super 35 high-resolution HDR sensor, dual native ISO, EF lens mount, and direct recording to USB‑C disks. This powerful model adds an adjustable HDR touchscreen, built-in ND filters, and a larger battery for a longer run time. You can even add an optional OLED viewfinder.

The Pocket Cinema Camera 6K models have a native resolution of 6144 x 3456. Whether you’re shooting in bright sunlight or in almost no light at all, the 13 stops of dynamic range with dual native ISO up to 25,600 provide stunning low noise images in all lighting conditions. Plus the 6K models feature a larger Super 35 sensor that allows shooting with a shallow depth of field and anamorphic lenses. All models let you shoot up to 60 fps in full resolution or 120 fps windowed. An amazing sensor combined with Blackmagic color science means you get the same imaging technology as the most expensive digital film cameras.

BMPCC 6K PRO Features:

Active Canon EF-Lens Mount
Record 6K 6144 x 3456 up to 50 fps
Super 35 HDR Image Sensor
Includes DaVinci Resolve Studio License
Dual XLR Inputs, Canon Active EF Mount
5" 1920 x 1080 Touchscreen Display
13 Stops Dynamic Range
1 x 3.5mm headphone jack
CFast 2.0 & SD/UHS-II Card Slots
USB Type-C for external drive recording
Bright 1500 cd/m² Tilting HDR LCD
1 x HDMI up to 1080p60
DaVinci YRGB Color Corrector
Support Mac 10.15 Catalina, 11.1 Big Sur, and Windows 10 OS
No Lens (Body only)
Includes DaVinci License Key

Compatible with Cinema/Photographic Lenses
The 6K models feature an EF lens mount, so you can use lenses you already own from other cameras such as DSLR, URSA Mini Pro, or even the original Blackmagic Cinema Camera. You can use commonly available photographic lenses that provide incredible creative choices and wonderful feature film quality lens effects. The active lens mount lets you adjust focus and iris from the buttons on the camera or the touch screen.

Built-in ND Filters
The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro features high-quality, motorized IR ND filters that let you quickly reduce the amount of light entering the camera. Designed to match the colorimetry and color science of the camera, the 2, 4, and 6 stop filters provide you with additional latitude even under harsh lighting. The IR filters have been designed to filter both optical and IR wavelengths evenly, eliminating IR contamination of the images. Activation buttons are located on the rear of the camera body, placed within easy reach of your thumb from the multi-function hand grip. User-selectable filter settings can even be displayed as either an ND number, stop reduction or fraction on the LCD!

HighDynamic Range (HDR) Images
The distance between the lightest and the darkest parts of an image is called the dynamic range and is measured in stops. Pocket Cinema Cameras have an incredible 13 stops of dynamic range which means they preserve more detail in the lightest and darkest areas of an image than simple video cameras can. This allows you to set the exposure for an indoor scene such as a cafe and still retain the details of bright outdoor light coming through a window. You also get more colors than the standard DCI-P3 colorspace used for feature films. Plus DaVinci Resolve Studio is included with the camera, so you get total creative freedom with full exposure adjustment and recovery controls when color grading.

Multiple Resolutions and Frame Rates
The 6K models will shoot up to 50 fps at 6144 x 3456 16:9 or 60 fps at 6144 x 2560 2.4:1 and 60 fps at 5744 x 3024 17:9. For higher frame rates you can window the sensor and shoot up to 120 fps at 2.8K 2868 x 1512 17:9. You can even work in true anamorphic 6:5 using anamorphic lenses in 3.7K 60 fps at 3728 x 3104.

Blackmagic Raw
The Blackmagic RAW is a revolutionary new format designed to capture and preserve the quality of the sensor data from your camera. Video formats such as H.264 are highly compressed, plus add noise and weird artifacts, causing original sensor detail to be lost forever. Blackmagic RAW eliminates this problem and gives you stunning images with incredible detail and color throughout the production pipeline from the camera to edit color and mastering. It also saves camera settings as metadata so you can set ISO, white balance, and exposure in-camera or override them later while editing, all without any loss of quality! Blackmagic RAW files are also small and fast to use making them easy to work with. Only Blackmagic RAW gives you the highest quality, smallest files, and fastest performance!

Large 5" LCD Monitor
The Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro LCD monitor is a more advanced HDR display that can be tilted up and down so it's easy to monitor your shot from any position. Plus the 6K Pro model’s HDR display features 1500 nits of brightness, ideal for use in bright sunlight.

Generation 5 Color
The Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro delivers an even greater advancement in image quality with stunning, accurate skin tones and faithful color in every shot. You get a new dynamic 12-bit gamma curve designed to capture more color data in the highlights and shadows, for better-looking images. The color science also handles some of the complex Blackmagic RAW image processing, so color and dynamic range data from the sensor is preserved via metadata which you can use in post-production. That means you get images that have a natural, film-like response to color adjustments in the post with DaVinci Resolve Studio.

Viewfinder For BMPCC 6K Pro

The Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera Pro EVF is designed for the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro for a more immersive shooting experience. With an extra 33% of the OLED display dedicated to critical information such as frame rate, histogram, record status, audio meters, and more, you’ll never need to take your eye away from the shot. The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera Pro EVF has a 70-degree range of motion and 4 different types of eyecups, with options for left or right eyes. The built-in proximity sensor not only activates the viewfinder but also switches off the LCD touchscreen. This conserves battery power and prevents you from accidentally changing the camera setup by pressing the touchscreen controls.

The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera Pro EVF is the perfect accessory to make outdoors and handheld shooting easy! You get a high-quality viewfinder with a built-in proximity sensor, 4 element glass diopter with an incredible -4 to +4 adjustment, built-in status information, and a digital focus chart. The Pocket Cinema Camera Pro EVF connects quickly to the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro via a single connector. The viewfinder has up to a 70-degree swivel and comes with a set of 4 eyecups including left and right eye.

Viewfinder For BMPCC 6K Pro Features:

Designed for Pocket 6K Pro
Built-In Status and Digital Focus Chart
70° Swivel, 1280 x 960 Resolution
Micro OLED, 24 bit RGB, 16.7M colors

BMPCC Battery Grip For 6K Pro

The Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera Battery Grip For 6K Pro adds two extra NP-F570 batteries to the 6K Pro for over 3 hours of shooting on a single charge. That’s massive battery life, in a compact design that integrates seamlessly with the camera. Featuring a unique carbon fiber design, non‑slip handgrips, and a slide-out tray, the battery grip makes long shoots easier because it gives you more to hold onto. You can view the status of the grip’s batteries on the touchscreen display, and charge the batteries via the camera’s 12V DC power connection in between takes.