John Brawley wrote:AbdoulUK wrote: An update was promised years ago, its been radio silence since.
My memory might be wrong but did anyone from BMD ever promise to do gen5?
AbdoulUK wrote:
I remember the EXACT same thing happening with the original BMCC, promised updates, years later no word.
Can you be specific about what promised update didn’t happen? Again I don’t recall any that were promised but not delivered.
I’m all for getting updates that should happen but I just don’t recall BMD making promises like this. Happy to be proved wrong.
JB
To my knowledge John is definitely correct in that there was no explicit promise - however, there definitely were things said that would have implied it to the average BM user at the time.
Here is a clip from the Gen5 curve live stream announcement 3 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/live/sV8iFzpuecA?feature=share&t=3611Grant says "So we'll roll this out to other Blackmagic Design cameras as well..."
3 years ago it would have been a safe assumption that a statement like that meant the Ursa G2. But, no, it wasn't an explicit promise. It was one of the few cameras at the time an average person would have reasonably expected to be "rolled out" to, however.
The next year we had the announcement about the 6K Pro, and that was the another mention of Gen5 color science, now being added to the 6K Pro. And when Grant mentions the 6k Pro, he talks of trying to put Ursa Mini Pro features into the 6K Pro, implying it was not superseding the UMP, rather inheriting some of the features as a "child" camera. This would be another reasonable inference for an average BM user that the parent camera would also receive the update, since it was still above the 6K Pro in model hierarchy. Of course, I realize the 6K pro did get some cool new features that weren't available on the UMP, like motorized ND, better screen, etc... so even being a lower product line offering, it's not entirely apples to apples.
I simply offer this as an explanation as to one possible source of how the idea of Gen5 color science in the UMP G2 may have entered the BM user zeitgeist.
If you ask me, it's just ambiguous enough for some plausible deniability, but it most certainly was an assumption that was widely made and to this day has not been put to rest.
Best,
-Daniel