Fulgencio Martínez wrote:Anyway.. those who thought they might be building an active mount for months.. they were not! what were they doing? who knows!
I thought they might as that would clearly explain the 6 month delay in shipping the BMCC MFT. But I'm not disappointed or surprised that it is shipping today with the passive mount since I had long ago planned on using manual SLR Magic hyperprimes.
When BMD said they wanted to clear the preorders of BMCC EF, we knew it was going to be a long wait since the Europe region was only recently fulfilling June 2012 preorders. Now that it is shipping I think we also know what they meant by saying MFT would wait until they had made a significant dent in the preorder backlog. I preorder means you order the camera before it has been released. The EF was released in a very limited fashion in July. So technically we may have erred in calling any order received after that a preorder when it was simply a backlogged order.
I may be stretching this a bit too far to make sense of the timing of the BMCC MFT. And you may be right, the Magic Lantern raw hacks on Canon HDSLRS may have been the kick in the pants that ignited this quiet release of the BMCC MFT! Given the very fast T0.95 lenses that can be mounted on the BMCC MFT, and given the magic of the Metabones Speed Booster for mounting those slow Canon f/1.2 EF LENSES on the BMCC MFT, perhaps BMD wanted to put their best foot forward sooner than later to challenge the new threat from Magic Lantern on behalf of the HDSLR videographers before the very people they had targeted for their BMCC camera lost interest in BMD cameras.
I do tend to lean towards believing the BMCC MFT will be able to produce footage with much of the visual appeal of a full-frame HDSLR at a comparable cost while boasting their likely higher dynamic range. When the dust settles and we see the best footage from all cameras in the next couple of months, we shall see if BMD is right.
Rick Lang
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