Like all Blackmagic cameras, there is a lot to love and a lot that confounds. We promise this review has something for both of you and everyone in between. We imagine the majority of people reading this article could be split into two camps: aspiring filmmakers looking for their first cinema camera and seasoned veterans looking for a reason to feel smug about their cinematic superiority. Ten years and several generations later, they have updated the resolution and some features, but we still have to find workarounds to use the camera in a professional environment. It’s not just the form factor there are several other serious issues, but we’ll go over those later. But, like stepping on yet another rake, Blackmagic, once again, packed their camera in the most perplexing box possible. It’s on the verge of being an incredible device that could give the RED Komodo a run for its money. This camera is so close to being a stone-cold killer. This, however, is the first of many frustrating things about the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K G2 that boggles our minds. The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K G2, despite its name, is not a pocket camera. Now, though, it’s several times larger and a lot heavier. Sure, it’s a similar shape as the original, still married to the loose design of a DSLR. With the latest generation of their Pocket Cinema Camera, the name has become not just dubious but comically inaccurate.

Now almost ten years later and living in a world of low-priced cameras that feature raw or at least 10-bit log video, Blackmagic Design has released Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K G2. Plus, you could actually fit the camera into your pocket. We were happy to make concessions and deal with difficult workarounds to get that beautiful image in a RAW format. We were early adopters and loved it, despite all its challenges - and there were a lot of them.

This was an era when, if you wanted uncompressed video, you had to hack your Canon 5D MKII with Magic Lantern software and pray to the unforgiving camera gods you don’t brick the thing. It was a massive release, offering videographers the ability to shoot RAW video internally. Back in 2013, Blackmagic released the original Pocket Cinema Camera (BMPCC).

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