BM 6K 4 Inch Cube With Sony E or RF Mount: Komodo Killer

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BM 6K 4 Inch Cube With Sony E or RF Mount: Komodo Killer

PostSun Jan 29, 2023 3:17 pm

Would you buy a BM 6K 4inch Cube with Sony E mount or RF Mount?

No doubt it would be a Komodo killer, especially if it is half the price.

Maybe we can create enough interest to motivate BM to create one.

Do you think it is possible?
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Re: BM 6K 4 Inch Cube With Sony E or RF Mount: Komodo Killer

PostSun Jan 29, 2023 4:37 pm

Sony/Canon controls who can use those mounts and they generally aren't licensing them to other camera companies.
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Re: BM 6K 4 Inch Cube With Sony E or RF Mount: Komodo Killer

PostSun Jan 29, 2023 4:46 pm

craigbeckta wrote:Would you buy a BM 6K 4inch Cube with Sony E mount or RF Mount?

No doubt it would be a Komodo killer, especially if it is half the price.

Maybe we can create enough interest to motivate BM to create one.

Do you think it is possible?

I would but not with a Sony E or Canon RF mount. I would prefer they provide a changeable mount with PL, EF, and L mounts. Most folks have EF lenses collected through the years and PL mount lenses can be purchased or rented. L mount is a good and flexible option. Also, the 12K sensor that is on the URSA if they can figure out how to manage cooling it in a small form factor. The cube has been requested so many times throughout this forum in the last 2-3 years. BM has been ignoring it.
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Re: BM 6K 4 Inch Cube With Sony E or RF Mount: Komodo Killer

PostSun Jan 29, 2023 5:03 pm

The biggest issue for a lot of people with BM cameras is the form factor.

It is strange that they would ignore that.
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Re: BM 6K 4 Inch Cube With Sony E or RF Mount: Komodo Killer

PostMon Jan 30, 2023 8:56 am

craigbeckta wrote:The biggest issue for a lot of people with BM cameras is the form factor.

It is strange that they would ignore that.


Who are those „a lot of people“?

I don’t have an issue with the form factor and I think the Kommodo form factor is pretty bad for most purposes.
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Re: BM 6K 4 Inch Cube With Sony E or RF Mount: Komodo Killer

PostMon Jan 30, 2023 11:25 am

Robert Niessner wrote:Who are those „a lot of people“?

I don’t have an issue with the form factor and I think the Kommodo form factor is pretty bad for most purposes.


I totally agree. It's like FF, global shutter, cube formfactor, more DR, etc. etc. People demanding things they never really knew they needed, in the first, place, but ending up echoing the longing rally of others on YT and forums. Instead of making the best films they can now with what they have. For me the Ursa is just about my ideal larger form factor, for most things and the DSLR form factor should never have been. If there was an ideal form factor for a small camera, IMO it should have looked to the past with Super 8 cameras, like the Beaulieus. A cube where you have to spend as much again to rig it out to the size of an Ursa, seems a little counterintuitive and using without may be great on a gimbal but then a Super 8 like camera would be so much more useful, for other things too.

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