carlomacchiavello wrote:BrydeSorensen wrote:Swapped for a different body and my drives work fine. Guess the pocket 4K was just badly designed or maybe a slightly defective sample.
It's a shame that Blackmagic doesn't sell drives themselves. It would be very easy for them to do it. And it would avoid people wasting time troubleshooting the drive when really the camera is faulty / badly designed....hmmmm.
It’s a shame that Blackmagic Design do from years approved list of ssd, cfast and sd, and people try casually supports and guess that are cameras the defect…
In this case it was. I swapped the body and now the drive works fine.
Blackmagic puts in good work with the compatibility list, but it still goes back to the same point; the blackmagic camera relies on working accessories from other brands. This means blackmagic cannot control the user experience as well.
They don't control when another manufacturer makes a faulty batch or a controller revision. Or products on the list are discontinued or unavailable in regions.
In the same way that they have the camera and the editing software, they also need to offer CFAST/SD/SSD drives. It would be a little bit more expensive, but also a lot easier for many customers and avoid
Frankly i'm surprised that such a core part of the camera is not offered by blackmagic.
It is also not right to advertise the camera as being able to record to USB SSD's, and then not being able to use normal working USB SSD's because the camera has hidden power limitations (supposedly). Either it can or it cannot. That's why we have standards to define compatibility.