Please tell me it was my incompetence, an old demo model or a bad sales guy, because:
Just played around with Blackmagic Design's new 2.5K camera. Three huge drawbacks that stop me from buying it:
- Iris is controlled with combination of two buttons (iris and arrow), which means you can't hold the camera with one hand and operate it with the other (at least if you use EF lenses that have no iris ring on them). Might be different for MFT, but who gives a ... Also, you can't see on the screen what the F stop it currently set to.
- The camera can not be white balanced manually. You can set the color temp manually, but with 500K intervals only, which means you can do 2500K and 3000K but not 2700K. It wouldn't be such a disaster, if you would only use it in the 2.5K RAW mode (which means you can change your WB in post), but for ProRes it becomes an issue.
- No live audio levels indication on the screen???? Come on!
It is entirely possible that these issues will be addressed by the time the camera actually goes on sale, but the Adorama salesman who demonstrated it to me at Washington's Government Video Expo was as buffled as I was to the camera's lack of essential functionality.
I'm sure the well esteemed team of professional at Blackmagic Design had professionals of some high acclaim consult them on the functionality cameramen/women use in their work, but how the hell did they overlook such important stuff!!!
Very disappointed. I was about to buy these!
Just played around with Blackmagic Design's new 2.5K camera. Three huge drawbacks that stop me from buying it:
- Iris is controlled with combination of two buttons (iris and arrow), which means you can't hold the camera with one hand and operate it with the other (at least if you use EF lenses that have no iris ring on them). Might be different for MFT, but who gives a ... Also, you can't see on the screen what the F stop it currently set to.
- The camera can not be white balanced manually. You can set the color temp manually, but with 500K intervals only, which means you can do 2500K and 3000K but not 2700K. It wouldn't be such a disaster, if you would only use it in the 2.5K RAW mode (which means you can change your WB in post), but for ProRes it becomes an issue.
- No live audio levels indication on the screen???? Come on!
It is entirely possible that these issues will be addressed by the time the camera actually goes on sale, but the Adorama salesman who demonstrated it to me at Washington's Government Video Expo was as buffled as I was to the camera's lack of essential functionality.
I'm sure the well esteemed team of professional at Blackmagic Design had professionals of some high acclaim consult them on the functionality cameramen/women use in their work, but how the hell did they overlook such important stuff!!!
Very disappointed. I was about to buy these!