09 Aug Technology in and out

I have been a die hard Red user for 5 years.  Whenever I can and as budgets allow, I will always choose to shoot on the best and technology I have access to and most often that’s been a Red camera and some my Leica R or Sigma Art lens kit.

I’ve gone through owning many different camera packages starting with Canon DSLR (T2i & 5D3) and cinema cameras (C100 & C300) and moving toward mirrorless options like the Panasonic GH4, GH5 and Sony A7Sii.  I have since sold all of those cameras in favor of shooting primarily on my Red Digital Cinema kits.  For the last few years, I’ve owned a dual Red Camera kit and it has worked amazingly well for everything from TV commercials, documentaries to social media content and TV shows.

As the years have gone by, Red has updated and upgraded there cameras in leaps and bounds, and I’ve slowly been updating as needed, but recently I decided to take a quick detour into the BlackMagic Design direction.  I recently purchased a BlackMagic Pocket Cinema 4k and yesterday, out of the blue, I find out that BlackMagic decided to announce a new 6k version of that camera and in a mad scramble I jumped on B&H Photo to find out they had some for preorder that would be shipped out in a day. Today I received confirmation that it will arrive on Tuesday and I couldn’t be more excited.

The camera shoots 6k, RAW, with some high speed functionality and some great color and dynamic range.  One nice little surprise is that the higher resolution sensor also results in 21 megapixel stills which also makes this a pretty great little stills camera.

I’m so excited in fact… that I finally decided to sell off my second Red Camera.  Over the course of 3 years of ownership, I’ve only run up 265 hours on my B-camera and really don’t need a second camera on every project.  I think that the BlackMagic Pocket cameras will allow me to own a more cost effective cinema kit for projects that