There was a time when higher performance cinema cameras were bulky and prohibitively expensive; the Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera shoots 1080p RAW, is small enough to fit in your pocket and costs under a thousand bucks. Who said living in interesting times was a curse?

The announcement of Blackmagic's $US3000 RAW-shooting Cinema Camera in 2012 caused such a stir that not many could have anticipated a followup model, so soon, that was a fraction of the cost and a fraction of the size.