Sun Feb 12, 2017 9:35 pm
I'd like BM to release a professional camera. I'd pay 10k for a BM camera that worked flawlessly out of the box with the spec they'd promised. Releasing cheap cameras that have a terrible reputation for reliability and quality control, that are quickly replaced, superseded or ignored is never going to help them get taken seriously, which is why, with the exception of JB, you never see anyone shooting fully fledged features, landmark documentary or Netflix/Amazon dramas on them as the A unit. They cater for the indie end of the spectrum or small one man band production companies, who are prepared to ignore or workaround the poor design because they do make nice images for the price but not much else. I think a lot of people would be happy to pay a bit more and have built in ND wheel with IR cut or have the global shutter, have decent xlr inputs and preamps so you can reliably record decent in camera sound, have a proper timecode page in the menu, be able to sync TC in and out etc.
I bought my ursa V1 specifically for the upgrade path - I certainly did not buy it on the back of the performance reported with that sensor in the bmpc4k. I now feel rightfullly pi$$ed off, the turret has always been one of the mainstays of the camera's marketing campaign. If it doesn't happen, after waiting, what is it, 2 or 3 years now, I will want a refund, not a rebate on some other BMD product.
Whatever they do decide, it really needs to work, I don't think their image could suffer another release of something half baked with fpn, magenta corners, cross hatching, orbs, dead pixels, over heating noise, shocking battery performance or any of the other myriad of "quirks" that people report.