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";s:4:"text";s:4149:" If you need an EVF or studio viewfinder, Blackmagic Design has you covered, but they aren’t cheap.
When testing with a Lexar 128GB Professional 3400X CFast 2.0 card, we had no issues capturing all the way up to uncompressed CinemaDNG. At ISO 800 noise is introduced, but with Red Giant Denoiser III applied in its default setting, the noise could be removed. Cine batteries have a huge range in their prices, from as low as 200 bucks all the way up to 1,000 dollars.Is your head spinning yet? In these cases, it’s best to shoot knowing you won’t have the ability to change things. They are accessed on a knob on the URSA and up and down buttons on the C200.
The data rate — even in your own specs at the bottom of the article– is 4608 x 2592 CinemaDNG RAW Uncompressed 513 MB/s.Are any of the Black Magic cameras weather sealed? If you’re considering what media to buy, pay attention to this.
Shoot at a data rate as high as 4.1 Gbps in uncompressed RAW 4.6K or as little as 176 Mbps in ProRes Proxy 4.6K. However, we must mention that the increased resolution of RAW from the URSA Mini Pro 4.6K means files will inherently be larger.Top resolution is only one side of the coin. A little shy of two pounds doesn’t sound like much, but it would be a noticeable difference after shooting all day.Next, we want to look at the difference in form factor. The URSA doesn’t have a big jump to its next compression type of ProRes 444 XQ, but the Canon jumps way down to 8-bit 4:2:0 M4Vs. However the URSA has many flavors of ProRes and can be compressed down to 179 Mbps.When shooting side by side with the Canon shooting 8-bit 4:2:0 M4Vs and Blackmagic shooting ProRes 4:2:2 Proxy, there wasn’t much difference between the two to the naked eye. Not all things look good when slowed down too much.It’s a nice feature having 60 frames per second (fps) in 4.6K. While we have more options and more technology than ever before; buying a new camera has never been more difficult. The URSA’s menu is easier to use, however you get many more controls on the C200.The URSA has a larger top resolution at 4.6K over DCI 4K on the C200. An alternative to using the touch menu is using the menu knob on the front side of the camera.Because we typically use an URSA Mini 4K in our productions, the differences between the cameras were easy to spot.
If you are in a studio setting and need a tally light or a larger screen, the URSA Studio Viewfinder with a 7-inch screen will do, but it’s 1,800 dollars.Its likely you will order the camera with the lens mount you need, but if you need to change it, there are three options. If dynamic range is your concern, the C200 does have more, but we wouldn’t say it’s enough to base your purchasing decision on alone.Moving on to looking at their color, we shot the Blackmagic in 12-bit in RAW CinemaDNG and the Canon in 12-Bit Cinema RAW Light.
It screams, “Look at me.”It’s a nice feature having 60 frames per second (fps) in 4.6K. Get proper exposure and white balance, and you’ll have something ready to cut, without all the extra time a RAW workflow requires.For those who can use RAW in their workflow, consider the following.
We were able to pull detail on the URSA Mini Pro 4.6K from dark shadowed areas without adding significant noise to the picture. With that said, although the URSA Mini Pro 4.6K will let you start recording in larger formats than can write on a SD card, it quickly fails. One thing to consider though, if you desire to shoot RAW in any resolution outside of 4.6K, you are going to gain a crop related to the resolution you shoot. It’s nice that it’s interchangeable with the new camera. The 4K model didn’t fair as well; it just got worse where there was already noise.The URSA Mini Pro 4.6K comes with loads of resolution and compression options. In this case, you have 10-bit Apple ProRes in the Blackmagic against 8-bit M4Vs in the Canon. The URSA Mini Pro 4.6K has a Super-35mm CMOS sensor and shoots resolutions up to 4.6K (4,608 x 2,592) at up to 60 frames per second (fps).