Official statement from Blackmagic on new camera shipping

I really love what Black Magic are trying to do but their PR and customer relations really suck...

http://prolost.com/blog/2013/7/26/the-b ... oming.html

Perfect article on the situation. Even listening to the BM representative on JUL25 he sounded like he wanted to say september but kept reducing his estimates...why?? Just be honest or it will only annoy people more! There is no way BM will have the 4k in peoples hands in AUG!

A big fat thank-you to Marc Hood for his many months of holding BMD accountable to some standard of right business practices. I nominate him for the 2013 Feet-To-The-Fire Prize, the Nobel for movie gear forum commentary. Hell I hand it to him myself, why beat around the bush.

His latest posts, on this thread provide the explanation and motive for the "lack of communication" almost everyone complains of. It explains President Pretty's resort to near-English in his own past communications to this forum, followed now after long silence by piecemeal statements from unknown officials to outside personalities deposited here and there. All of these, going back to week zero, have exuded a big honk of optimism, serving to keep everyone in the tent, for a time. The ever-thickening fog has always concealed a bull-dog determination Not to provide real info, especially of existing pre-orders and of manufacturing capacity down there in Australia. Now it's now longer even clear what "production" means.

We will be very nice now everyone in this forum. the right way, Christine Peterson will have some new information you can give us about the two new cameras?

thanks

hmm.

Dunno, but it seems that perhaps she cant answer anymore. have a feeling she isnt in that position.
Her picture is gone under her name, and under her posts it says

"(Previously Community Relations Manager for Blackmagic Design)"

yupp. confirmed.

If you look at her name at Linkedln it sais her current work is at a company called Relevant24 and that her blackmagic work was between sept 2012 - aug 2013.

So I think we need another lamb to get answers from now. Hopefully this lamb brings more to the table

Question is:

Did she leave because she said too much? Or too less? Or maybe just because of reasons totally unrelated to this forum...?!

Dont know, but still. Would like one from Blackmagic to step in and answer some questions. Waiting for "Official statement from Blackmagic on new camera shipping" Bad or worse. I dont care. Just want a statement from them. We all want them to succeed. We all want their products. Cant help my self to browse through forums looking for second hand guesses. It would be cool to be let in to see how it goes. Are we 2-4 weeks or 2-3 months away. Now when/if Christina left, there really aren't any official statement left here but second hand guesses.

2-3 weeks was the official word from Dan May who is the President of BMD USA. It doesn't get any more official than that. If something else comes up, I'm sure we'll hear about it through someone from BMD.

ok, cool. Havent seen that. Just heard a couple of weeks ago that they had a couple of more weeks before they could go on with full production. Is the statement from Dan May recent?

ok, cool. Havent seen that. Just heard a couple of weeks ago that they had a couple of more weeks before they could go on with full production. Is the statement from Dan May recent?

From 2 days ago at the BMD event in NYC.

I found this article an interesting read.
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor/ ... 27896.html

... 5 weeks ago...

Time for an official update?

2-3 weeks was the official word from Dan May who is the President of BMD USA. It doesn't get any more official than that. If something else comes up, I'm sure we'll hear about it through someone from BMD.

But BMD are AUSTRALIAN and I'm AUSTRALIAN so I want to hear what a local has to say please.

+1

http://vimeo.com/71069453

... 5 weeks ago...

Time for an official update?

ordered mine in july... it's now november... still no sign of the pocket camera. there's not even an estimate from the reseller or black magic as to how long it will be. how can it be so hard to give an accurate delivery date???

ordered mine in july... it's now november... still no sign of the pocket camera. there's not even an estimate from the reseller or black magic as to how long it will be. how can it be so hard to give an accurate delivery date???

Where did you order from? Safe Harbor has a few pockets in stock as far as I know. They ship internationally.

http://www.sharbor.com

ordered mine in july... it's now november... still no sign of the pocket camera. there's not even an estimate from the reseller or black magic as to how long it will be. how can it be so hard to give an accurate delivery date???

Ordered mine from Core Micro (coremicro.com) and they shipped within a week. You definitely shouldn't be waiting for one your ordered in July.

i ordered from jigsaw24.com they're one of Black magics reccoemeded online despensors for the UK so i'm really confused as to why they have no idea when my order will be forfilled... surely they must have some clue?? i'll keep emailing them and chasing it up.

Seems to be mostly a Europe issue with the pockets now. Preordered mine in Germany after nab. But still nothing.

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I'm in the Chicago area, pre-ordered my Pocket Camera in April and still have not received it.

I sent a follow up to the retailer just now and they said that they just started receiving them in small batches. I can hope that I'm near the top of the list and keep my order with AbelCine, or I can jump to B&H and get it in an estimated 2 weeks...if B&H is up to date on their arrival estimates.

Throwing this decision out to the masses... What would Blackmagic Community do?

I've got big gigs coming up in February and I want time with the camera before that (doubtless, Christmas is a good time for that).

I have seen at least 3-4 posts in the past week indicating retailers who had the Pocket Camera in stock and ready to ship. Perhaps you should seek on some of those.

I'm in the Chicago area, pre-ordered my Pocket Camera in April and still have not received it.
Throwing this decision out to the masses... What would Blackmagic Community do?