I have only owned the Pocket Camera and absolutely love it. Though it desperately needs audio meters in my opinion. I felt compelled to add to this thread since I see it the issue pop up so many times. So this is the humble opinion of this unknown forum poster who never owned a BMCC:
1. I did not like the tone of the original post. But then…
2. I TOTALLY understand and can relate to what the OP is saying. Given the facts however, I think his tone is understandable. What I find incomprehensible is this account (and other similar ones):
I paid full price for my camera, I ordered it 2 weeks after it was announced at NAB 2012 and it arrived 11 months later. A few weeks after it arrived the price was dropped.
I do not feel I am owed a refund or money back or anything like that.
The posters who feel this way are either better human beings than me and most people, extremely rich, or both. I’m a reasonable person, but let that statement sink in for a bit:
I paid full price for my camera, I ordered it and it arrived 11 months later. A few weeks after it arrived the price was dropped (from $3,000 to $2,000).
Are you kidding me? I can’t think of a parallel universe where this would be a normal, acceptable, business practice. Never mind the supposed bugs and missing promised features. Don’t know if those complaints are legit, but it sounds like they probably are.
Comparisons were made above to how everything in the tech world gets cheaper. But please, someone enlighten us with examples of another tech company that has done something similar where a customer can say something along the lines of:
I paid full price for my camera, I ordered it and it arrived 11 months later. A few weeks after it arrived the price was dropped (from $3,000 to $2,000).Incredible.
The only advantage to being and early adopter for a product is that you get a head start on the “hype conscious” consumers that wait for the reviews and the “price conscious” consumers that wait for the price drops; which very rarely amount to a 1/3 price drop a few months after availability. The BMCC depreciated much quicker than a car or a personal computer for Christ’s sake!!! In any case early adoption in general is an extremely risky proposition because it does you no good to get a “head start” on a product that turns out to be a dud, as is frequently the case. (Unless you are one of those rich types who is just concerned mainly with impressing your friends with the latest tech, regardless of it is good tech or not).
The BMCC early adopters did not get the single benefit of early adopters (head start) and were hit with the usual negatives, but augmented (
obscene depreciation and bugs not sorted out).
As the happy owner of the Pocket camera I’m cheering for Black Magic Design and I badly want them to succeed. But please BMD, these BMCC early adopters should be compensated in some fashion. You need to make this right. You don’t even need to compensate the huge amount of “happy” BMCC owners, just the ones who rightfully feel deceived.