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05 March 2015

Throwback Thursday (TBT): Rigging the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

Written by Paul Moon

Leading up to (and inspiring) the launch of this site in February 2015, there were a few viral videos that folks found useful across the Interwebs. Since these videos have never gotten their own back-to-the-future debuts at this permanent residence, let’s use Throwback Thursday (TBT) as an occasion to see what they had to say.

This one’s especially sentimental. It’s the second commentary I ever made, but up to today, here are the stats: on YouTube, 54k views and 281k minutes watched, and on Vimeo, 23.3k plays. That’s pretty big for me (maybe never again), and it got a lot of love with a couple hundred comments. (I think it even led to my gig with Paramount Pictures.) Thanks for watching it, whether before, or here for the first time.

From April 19, 2014:

Last year, when the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera arrived, I made a video to break it in, and laid down a commentary to share some insights. Not the newest thing now, it’s still the only option for capturing 10-bit 4:2:2 log video without a big rig, and costing under a grand. But it’s always needed a bit of rigging, and while filmmakers keep using it to make amazing films – examples here – there’s still a lot to talk about, in terms of rigging it right. Following up the commentary I made last year that went sort of viral, here’s a similar chat: because sometimes showing stuff, and talking over it, works better than writing an article. For a streaming clip, it does run long, but it covers lots of ground – and I’m looking forward to your comments below.

The first and main theme is that it’s wise to choose Canon EF-mount manual cine lenses, so that you can adapt them to the Micro-4/3 mount on the BMPC (and E-mount on Sony cams) with gadgets that take advantage of the conversion, enabling behind-the-lens ND filters and focal reducers. But it’s also true that typical Canon EF-mount lenses that aren’t fully manual will lack aperture control this way. Important to clarify! (There is not currently any Metabones solution specific to this need.)

GEAR LIST (in order of appearance):
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera
Panasonic 12-35mm f2.8 zoom lens
Rokinon Cine lenses for EF mount
HolyManta VND
Light Craft Workshop Rapid ND (use my coupon code LC-1308 for 10% off)
View Factor Contineo cage
Tamrac N-45 padded leather quick-release camera strap
Zacuto Z-Finder
Ikan battery adapters (choose desired battery & mounting)
5.5 x 2.1mm female (Ikan) to 2.5 x 0.7mm male (BMPC) adapter
Tascam DR-60D audio pre-amp/recorder
Rode NTG-2 shotgun mic
Polaroid shotgun mic mount
Flolight 1/4″-20 Stacker for mic mount
Tether Tools Jerkstopper thread mount
Roxsen Focal Reducer EF to Micro-4/3

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26 February 2015

Throwback Thursday (TBT): New York City | “Color Commentary” on the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

Written by Paul Moon

Leading up to (and inspiring) the launch of this site in February 2015, there were a few viral videos that folks found useful across the Interwebs. Since these videos have never gotten their own back-to-the-future debuts at this permanent residence, let’s use Throwback Thursday (TBT) as an occasion to see what they had to say.

This one’s pretty sentimental. It’s the first commentary I ever made, and the number of views went way past my expectations. It’s probably the culprit for sending me down this road.

From September 13, 2013:

Within the week of posting, my NYC test run of the new Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera went north of 3k playbacks, seeming sensible now to complement with a split-screen comparison of the untouched footage straight from the camera, alongside that finished product after color correction/grading. I have no delusions of being a studio auteur, who could justify a braggart director’s commentary, but after thinking about the option to write a long, wordy blog post, I figured it’s easier and better all-around just to talk over my footage. It’s a visual medium anyway, and I’m sort of surprised there aren’t more of these. Would love to see yours, too.

The video streams by default in full 1080p high definition, so if you get jitters, click the HD icon in-frame to reduce your playback resolution. For reference, here’s the original seven-minute film:

Filmed handheld on a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, using a single lens (Panasonic 12-35mm, continuous f2.8 aperture, optically stabilized H-HS12035). Shooting was on September 1 and 2, 2013, with post-production on September 7 and this commentary on September 12. Edited and graded in Adobe Premiere Pro CC, with clip-by-clip balancing adjustments using Fast Color Corrector, then applying an Adjustment Layer over the entire sequence with FilmConvert Pro 2, using its Blackmagic Cinema Camera profile and selecting the classic film stock emulation of KODAK VISION3 250D Color Negative Film 5207/7207 (with vintage Super 16mm film grain to match the feel — and the actual size — of the BMPC’s digital sensor).

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