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Can Blackmagic post a bunch of footage of this camera in action or ask people that have bought one to do so. There is very little out there and there is "1" review on B&H and he bashes it for low light and other things. I need to grab something with interchangeable lens for live event work and it's between this or Sony F7 unless something comes out at NAB before I do.
Here is the review:
Just sent mine back due to problems By Andy
Mine arrived with a crack in the Menu wheel (which didn't seem to work), so I sent it back. B&H is fantastic about returns of items with problems. I'm supposed to get a replacement but having tried the camera out I have some serious Misgivings. First issue ... I have a great 1.8 Fujinon 2/3 HD ENG lens that gives me pristine images on my Panasonic ENG camera. But because of the long B4 mount on the Ursa Broadcast camera I seem to be losing about a stop and a half to 2 stops of light, maybe more. They don't tell you about that in the description. I thought I might be able to make that up by using the Gain but no way. The camera is surprisingly noisy even at 0 DB and just got worse when I tried to compensate for the light loss by adding 3, 6, and then 12 DB of gain. All I got was increasingly worse grainy imagery. I tried in HD 1080P and then in UHD 4K and the grain was bad in both cases. Worse still, the moment I went to 4K, I got this Cross Hatched footage. Unacceptable. I film the performing arts for a living and an ENG Camera is usually perfect for me, so I was extremely hopeful about the Ursa Broadcast but there is no way it could handle even a touch of underexposure let alone the low contrasty light conditions I work in (Black backdrops and wings on stage). I can't imagine how this could be acceptable to a news organization working in the street at night. Unless they lit everything. So.. i'm very disappointed. Not sure if it was just this unit, or if it's inherent in the Ursa. I should have waited to see what others said when they bought it.
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Here is the review:
Just sent mine back due to problems By Andy
Mine arrived with a crack in the Menu wheel (which didn't seem to work), so I sent it back. B&H is fantastic about returns of items with problems. I'm supposed to get a replacement but having tried the camera out I have some serious Misgivings. First issue ... I have a great 1.8 Fujinon 2/3 HD ENG lens that gives me pristine images on my Panasonic ENG camera. But because of the long B4 mount on the Ursa Broadcast camera I seem to be losing about a stop and a half to 2 stops of light, maybe more. They don't tell you about that in the description. I thought I might be able to make that up by using the Gain but no way. The camera is surprisingly noisy even at 0 DB and just got worse when I tried to compensate for the light loss by adding 3, 6, and then 12 DB of gain. All I got was increasingly worse grainy imagery. I tried in HD 1080P and then in UHD 4K and the grain was bad in both cases. Worse still, the moment I went to 4K, I got this Cross Hatched footage. Unacceptable. I film the performing arts for a living and an ENG Camera is usually perfect for me, so I was extremely hopeful about the Ursa Broadcast but there is no way it could handle even a touch of underexposure let alone the low contrasty light conditions I work in (Black backdrops and wings on stage). I can't imagine how this could be acceptable to a news organization working in the street at night. Unless they lit everything. So.. i'm very disappointed. Not sure if it was just this unit, or if it's inherent in the Ursa. I should have waited to see what others said when they bought it.
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