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Powering the digital film and production cameras

Powering the digital film and production cameras

From the course: Shooting with Blackmagic Cinema Cameras

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Powering the digital film and production cameras

- With bigger cameras, you're going to need bigger batteries. And fortunately, BlackMagic supports professional standards. Now, when you choose to pick up your URSA camera, one of the things you're going to need to decide is which battery system you're going to go with. Now in this case, let's just remove the battery here for a second, (battery clicks) and take a look at the back of the camera. And what you'll notice in this case is, there is a battery plate already attached. Now, what's happening here is, this particular camera has been configured to use the Anton/Bauer type battery system. But you can choose multiple options here when you purchase your camera, it just simply screws in. This is not something that comes with the camera by default, but many of the different partners that you purchase the camera from may offer it preconfigured with the battery system as part of the purchase. In this case, you see there are a couple of gold pins, as well as slots where the battery is…

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