From the course: Video Gear: Cameras & Lenses

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Drawbacks of the Blackmagic USA 4K EF

Drawbacks of the Blackmagic USA 4K EF

From the course: Video Gear: Cameras & Lenses

Drawbacks of the Blackmagic USA 4K EF

- Great camera, wonderful performance, a few things we'll trade back and forth. I'm going to take the most obvious one. Every single person in my crew... (grunts) From my business partner to the PA to everyone else, when they grab this camera, they're like "Ah it's heavy." - Yeah, this is not a walk-around camera, this is not a Pocket Camera, this is put it on a nice, heavy duty tripod, not your photo tripod, - Oh, not even just your standard video tripod, we had to go and pull out our heaviest-duty tripod. This is designed for a cinema style tripod. So if you're just like I got a light weight Manfrotto or there's lots of other ones out there, you need a beefy cinema tripod. There's no joke here. Now battery-wise it's great that there's Anton Bauer batteries but for me on the back side here with these ports, a lot of batteries are a bit bigger, we'd run into some problems. Some of the batteries were actually obscuring these control ports. - Totally, now we have SDI out and that kind…

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