- 26 March 2008
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Blackmagic Design has just announced a new production camera – Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K. It has a super35 sensor and shoots BRAW full-sensor in 12K up to 60fps, 8K up to 120fps, 6K up to 120fps, or 4K 120fps. In Super16 crop mode, it can shoot up to 220fps. There is a USB-C slot for recording on external drives.
BLACKMAGIC URSA MINI PRO 12K FEATURES
12,288 x 6480 12K Super 35 sensor.
Use for feature films, VFX and high end TVC’s.
14 stops of dynamic range and native 800 ISO.
New Blackmagic RAW for real time 12K editing.
Blackmagic RAW optimized for Metal, CUDA and OpenCL.
Generation 5 Color Science with new film curve.
Shoot up to 60 fps in 12K, 110 fps at 8K and 220 fps at 4K.
Dual card CFast recording at up to 900MB/s.
PL mount included, EF and F mounts available.
SuperSpeed USB-C for recording to external disks.
Includes DaVinci Resolve Studio for post production.
Compatible with new Blackmagic URSA Mini Recorder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMZEjG4Nd3M
The camera has a super35 sensor with 12,288 x 6480 resolution and DCI 17:9 ratio. Grant Petty explained Blackmagic went for 12K so that filmmakers can easily reframe shots for 8K or 4K delivery. The sensor is brand new, it has a new color science, and according to Blackmagic Design, it is the first sensor designed especially for BRAW.
New Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K. Source: Blackmagic Design
From outside, the camera looks the same as older URSA models, but the internals is brand new according to Blackmagic Design. The camera comes with PL-mount but offers an interchangeable lens mount to Canon EF mount.
The sensor’s native resolution is 12K but it can record in lower resolution without crop and without binning as well. The supported full-sensor recording modes in Blackmagic RAW are as follows:
12K up to 60fps
8K up to 120fps
6K up to 120fps
4K 120fps
In Super16 crop mode, it can shoot up to 220fps.
The camera has internal ND filters, Dual cFast cards, 12G SDI output, and USB-C port for recording on external SSDs. An interesting feature is that the camera can record on both cFast cards at the same time which offers up to 900MBps recording speed. Dual card recording means that every second frame gets saved on each card. If you lose one card, you still get a usable file, but with only half the frame rate.
Blackmagic RAW has been updated as well. There is a new film curve for BRAW – generation 5. BMD says it should offer better highlight roll-off, better skin tones, and more flexibility in post. Grant Petty also demonstrated how he edits the 12K footage on a laptop and in multi-cam mode on a Mac Pro.
The price will be $9,995. The updates for DaVinci Resolve to work with 12K are coming soon.
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