From the course: Shooting with Blackmagic Cinema Cameras

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Major benefits of Blackmagic cameras

Major benefits of Blackmagic cameras

From the course: Shooting with Blackmagic Cinema Cameras

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Major benefits of Blackmagic cameras

- As a system, Blackmagic cameras offer many benefits, including compatibility and flexibility. One of the things that I like is the relatively compact size compared to the features that you get. For example, with the Pocket Camera here, I have raw recording and awesome options to use full quality audio and great monitoring all within a relatively compact package. And while the original URSA was pretty heavy, this new URSA Mini, not too bad. It's still a pretty solid camera and you're going to need a little bit of heft to it but it has great features compared to all of the options that are built in. One of the things that's nice is that the camera systems are relatively extendable due to accessories. For example, the URSA comes standard with the EF Mount but if you need to work with other type lenses such as B-Mount or bayonet lenses from the F-Mount series or others like PL, well that's just an option. Want to work with Anton/Bauer batteries? You can do so. Want to switch in SSD…

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