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Hi All,
How have you found the reliability of your Blackmagic Cameras?
I'm writing as someone who has been a very vocal supporter of Blackmagic for a long time, I've owned quite a few of their cameras and love that an Australian company is being a bit of a disruptor.
I run a micro-business doing video production - mainly corporate and some advertising, so buying an Ursa Pro g2 and BMPCC6k pro were a big outlay.
My Ursa died completely the night before a corporate event, meaning I had to rush out and luckily get a hire camera to cover the three days (this cost me $1000)
The camera is 3.5 years old, and sat unused due to covid for almost two of those.
I've appealed to the Australian Distributor New Magic Australia to come to the party with a repair under Australian Consumer Guarantees (essentially you'd expect a camera that's $8k to last longer than 3.5 years) and they offered to inspect it.
They've now quoted $3000 to replace the main board, and won't send me the old one to have a look at myself even if I pay for the new one.
I've also got a sticky button on the BMPCC6k Pro which is brand new.
So - given all of that, what have your experiences been?
Is it worth sticking to these guys, spending almost half the cost of the camera to repair it, or should I jump ship to a Sony.
Cheers
How have you found the reliability of your Blackmagic Cameras?
I'm writing as someone who has been a very vocal supporter of Blackmagic for a long time, I've owned quite a few of their cameras and love that an Australian company is being a bit of a disruptor.
I run a micro-business doing video production - mainly corporate and some advertising, so buying an Ursa Pro g2 and BMPCC6k pro were a big outlay.
My Ursa died completely the night before a corporate event, meaning I had to rush out and luckily get a hire camera to cover the three days (this cost me $1000)
The camera is 3.5 years old, and sat unused due to covid for almost two of those.
I've appealed to the Australian Distributor New Magic Australia to come to the party with a repair under Australian Consumer Guarantees (essentially you'd expect a camera that's $8k to last longer than 3.5 years) and they offered to inspect it.
They've now quoted $3000 to replace the main board, and won't send me the old one to have a look at myself even if I pay for the new one.
I've also got a sticky button on the BMPCC6k Pro which is brand new.
So - given all of that, what have your experiences been?
Is it worth sticking to these guys, spending almost half the cost of the camera to repair it, or should I jump ship to a Sony.
Cheers
Apple M2 Max 96GB, UMPG2, BMPCC6kPro