First Video of Metabones Speedbooster for your BMCC MFT

Lens adapter manufacturer Metabones surprised and intrigued us when they introduced the “Speedbooster” adapter that boosts your lenses speed by 1 f-stop and widens the field of view. What a perfect device that would solve some of the major problems of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera. If only the camera were shipping yet.

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Canon 5D mark III RAW vs. Blackmagic Cinema Camera RAW

Today we already published a test video of the impressive Canon 5D mark III RAW module enabled by the Magic Lantern hack and a guide to get it working yourself.

Here’s a side by side comparison of the 5D mark III with 14bit RAW 1080p together with the Blackmagic Cinema Camera with 2.5K RAW so you can see how the two cameras differ.

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Movcam Wooden Handgrip with rec trigger – for Blackmagic Cinema Camera

Some people feel like the Blackmagic Cinema Camera & Blackmagic Production Camera 4K have the record button on all the wrong places. Movcam offers a wooden handgrip that conveniently adds a remote rec button.

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Blackmagic Cinema Camera – infinity focus issue “solved”

You might have heard or experienced the issue yourself: Some wide angle lenses can’t be focused to infinity on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera. This issue has now been addressed, but the solution won’t make current owners happy.

Blackmagic has been looking into the issue last month when it was reported. See a sample on one of the affected lenses (Tokina 11-16mm) below.

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