Digital cameras have offered RAW-format image capture for quite some time now but RAW video recording has, so far, been "a most elusive fish," to borrow a phrase from Monty Python.

Captures cinema-worthy RAW video with impressive detail and wide dynamic range; ProRes format video files offer excellent image quality with less post-processing needed; portable, pocket-size camera build; affordably priced

Small image sensor magnifies lens focal lengths by 2.88x crop factor; small sensor size prevents capturing dramatic, shallow depth-of-field; noisy at high ISOs; short battery life; many operational quirks take some getting used to; steep learning curve for processing and color-grading RAW footage

Blackmagic made waves at last year's NAB with the announcement of the company's first camera: the $3,000 Cinema Camera , which was equipped with a 2.5K image sensor. That camera was hailed as a revolutionary device for the filmmaking industry, giving users a relatively affordable way to record...

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?

Like all Blackmagic Design cameras the Pocket Cinema Camera is polarizing. On the one hand, it's small, shoots ProRes and even RAW, but on the other hand it needs a number of accessories to make it a really useable camera (defeating the pocket-ability of the Pocket Camera), and the battery life on...

There is little more I can say about the workings of this thing that hasn't already been said. The video is relatively clear and noise free even shooting indoors under the worst lighting conditions I could scare up. As for the warning about the SD card speed, heed them. I did not.

I absolutely love this camera! Don't get me wrong it has a lot of flaws such as low battery life and poor choice of settings, however, it came with all the bugs fixed (black sun and white orbs) and the latest firmware that enables raw 1080p shooting which is the only thing that I care about in a...

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.

The image quality is what make the Pocket Cinema Camera a bargain thanks to a super 16mm sized sensor which records full 1920x1080 HD images either as lossless CinemaDNG RAW files or as Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) files at 220 Mbps.

I've used this product with a B4 lens adapter, very nice images, the adapter caused a little distortion but still had a beautiful picture. Had to take one star away since the audio on the camera is a little lacking. Other than that, love the little thing!

Picture Quality

Audio; Battery life

The BBMPCC is not for the casual videographer. The expense of fast SD cards and the short battery life place the camera firmly in the advanced amateur to professional realm. IN addition you will have to process the footage with an editing program ( such as Final cut Pro,Premiere Pro or DiVinci Lite.

The BMPCC is a Siper16 sensor camera that uses micro4/3 lenses (not included); The camera can shoot in both ProRes422 and cinema raw (with a firmware update).I have tested both the Panasonic and Olympus lenses with mine and both work well

You will require the fastest SD cards available if you do not want to have dropped frames ( I use SanDisk Extreme pro and SanDisk Extreme both cards can record at 80 Mbs or better); The camera will give you approx; 32min per card using Pro Res.