(energetic music) - So here is the Blackmagic
Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro, or the the BMPCC6KP? Yeah, Blackmagic definitely
heard us all complaining about how long the name
of their cameras were and they were like, "You know what, we're gonna add another syllable, because we can do whatever we want. And the next camera will
be an entire haiku." One of the very first things I noticed, is that right there. Two quarter inch threads right there. Thank you, because before they only gave us one and if you're gonna be using a gimbal or you want to rig it
out with a base plate or bridge plate or whatever. It always sucks just
having it swivel around, so this is a huge upgrade. I've spent the last couple of
weeks testing out this 6K Pro and just as I was finishing
this awesome review, brand new firmware comes up, quite a few differences. So I guess I'm just gonna go ahead and, I just died a little bit inside. So the new firmware is 7.3 and
the biggest thing it fixes, is the color tint that
we had on this monitor. Some of these units came with
a ridiculously blue tint. Mine had it really bad. So, even if you had the
correct white balance, it looked way off. So every time I would
take it out on a shoot, I would have to bring an external monitor. Plug it in just to check the color. But the good news is that this can record in ProRes or RAW. So if you're shooting in RAW and you know, you shoot with the wrong white balance, you can always correct that in post. But now with the new update, you go into setup, you go to calibrate screen, and then you can adjust. So right here, this is how the screen looks. See how it looks super blue? I almost have to take it and crank it all the way back over here and actually add a little bit of magenta, at least for this screen but every screen may vary. But right around here, is where the color finally gets accurate. You know and it sucks
that you have to go in and calibrate the monitor. But it's one of those, you do it once and you can
kind of forget about it. But I feel like Blackmagic actually gets a little bit of a pass, for having to calibrate the screen. Because, you're getting 6K RAW, you have built in ND filters, you have two mini XLR inputs that you can feed phantom power to. And you're getting that for 2500 bucks. Five years ago, you want a
camera with these kinds of specs, you'd easily pay at
least $10,000 for this, - Oh yeah.
- anything close to this. So, because of that, I think they had to cut some corners, in order to get the price down here, but if calibrating the monitor is the only thing we have to do to, get access to this kind
of power at this price, I think it's all right. - So how's the battery life on it? - Oh, well that's another
thing is it's way better, because before we were using
those Canon LP-E6 batteries. Which have like, pretty much no battery life.
- Yeah. - You know this has the Sony one, - Yeah.
- I forget what it's called, but it's like the common one. - Yeah, yeah. - A lot of monitors use it. So it has that and right now it has a battery grip on it. So, see this whole thing
- Okay. - down here on the bottom?
- Yeah. - If you actually look here there's two of these extra batteries in here.
- Okay, for sure. - So I could literally just pull it off while it's recording. See it just connects down it here. There's usually a little cover, to connect the two
- Yeah. - but I can go ahead, reattach it and then it'll automatically
detect the battery pack and you see it the two of the batteries pop up.
- Oh, for sure. I see it. - Now, one thing that
they still haven't really worked out is how long these
batteries are gonna last. You know, this Canon C70 that
we're recording on right now. What's it telling you? It has exactly 173
minutes of battery life. That 173 minutes is super accurate and right when it gets to like 5 minutes, it's giving you all these flashing lights.
- Yeah. - Plenty of warnings when
it's about to shut off. This is a little bit tricky though, you really have to keep an eye on it or else it'll just shut off on you, yeah. The good thing is, even
if it shuts off on you, I haven't lost any data yet. - So then, but usually how long, has it lasted with this grip? - Each battery is
supposed to last one hour, - Okay.
- and there's three of it, so it's supposed to last three, but I don't think it lasts that long. This is definitely not a C100 Mark II, because I know that's
what you're most used to. - Yeah. - You slap on one battery and you're good all day. No, this isn't that. - This is like legit, - Yeah. - a camera I would buy. - One thing though, is I
know you like autofocus. - I do, yeah.
- This has an autofocus but it's like a one time, like you use it to set it and then, but not continuous. - Kind of like a one shot kind of thing. - And if you ever decide you want to vlog, you can't do that. So, you can't really see yourself at all. The screen, articulates. Which is awesome, but you still can't articulate
it enough to see yourself. Oh, another good thing about the screen, it's 1500 nits. - Oh okay.
- So it's pretty bright. - Yeah. - If it's really really bright and sunny, and it's blasting straight
down on the monitor, then that's probably when you wanna set a, you know a floppy over you or try to get into the shade. But for the most part it's usable, even when it's pretty bright. 1500 nits is pretty good. - So it's not necessarily
a YouTuber's camera, but more of a cinematographer's camera. - Yeah, but anyways you
haven't even seen the footage out of this camera yet.
- No, not yet. - Okay, let's check it out. We're gonna go ahead and play some music from
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no, (giggles) it's gone! It's gone, oh you just saw that, Oh no, I'm so sorry, Sam. - We can still save it. - [Recorder] Do you see it? Where is it? (waves crashing) Ah yeah, - it's over there. - [Recorder] Where, what?
- (indistinct) - [Recorder] Oh, there it is right there. You're actually gonna try to get it? - I'm a try, if I can see it. You don't understand. Oh, it's right there. - [Recorder] What? Where? Dude, that's sketchy, dude. You can get into a lot of trouble. What do you think Johnathan? You want to get to give him some advice? - It's not worth it. - [Recorder] Yeah no, this
is how people get in trouble. - (screeches) Why does
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express this moment well with the wide selection from Musicbed.com. (dramatic music begins) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music ends) Well, you know what will cheer you up? Is right now, I can see you pretty clearly because I'm at ISO 3200. - Well that's okay.
- You want me to buy ISO, so you know, even at 3200 ISO, I imagine this is pretty clean. Does that make you feel better? - It makes me feel
better about the camera, but not my feelings. - [Recorder] Okay, well
no one gives a (bleep) about your feelings, they just care about the camera. (laughing) Jonathan's like, "Yeah, it's true." - When it comes to balancing on gimbals, I'm sure it's going to balance well on a lot of different gimbals. But I was kind of hoping it
would fit on the RS2 well. And I'm sure it'll fit, if you can just offset
the camera a little bit. But with this RS2, it's just butted up against
this motor right here, I just need to build a
slide this camera over, just slightly this way. But I got no more room. So, in order to use it with
this gimbal in particular, we probably need to get an adapter. If we just offset this plate
just a few inches this way, we should be good. We also have Gen 5 color science here, so I'm just gonna show
you some of the straight, out of camera footage right here. And I remember the video color
profile on the previous one, they were pretty terrible. Especially, the highlights but this is much better. It's a lot softer in the highlights. So, even if you're not
shooting in the film profile, which I still recommend you do, it's not gonna be as bad. But I'm going to go ahead and
switch it over to film color, which is, their log, of course. And check this out, I'm going to go ahead and grade it. Looks pretty nice. We have three stages of ND, we have two stops, four stops and six stops. Now, that is definitely useful but having NDs up to six stops isn't always going to be enough. I mean, Sam's in the shade right now and we're at a four. But if I wanted to open up, lets say all the way to a T1.5, then we're still gonna
need additional NDs. This Canon C70 has up to 10 stops, so something like this is
gonna let me open me up to you know, F18 in direct
sunlight if I wanted to. Now, playback itself is great. I love it when they allow you to play and then scrub through a scene, so you're not going fast forward and rewinding like you would on a Sony. This is how the Canon cameras do it and I love the ability to scrub. No image stabilization on here, so I definitely recommend that
if you're using this camera handheld that you try to get a lens with image stabilization in the lens. This is how the stabilization
helps the handheld shots at 24 and then again here it is at 50. And then the tighter you go, the more you're gonna see it and at 70 mil, you see that makes a pretty
significant difference. Now, I have pretty shaky hands but if you plan on just
popping this off the tripod and just running around like this, even though it is a decent sized camera, it's hard to hold a camera
that stable at 70 mil, if you got no stabilization. You know on this Canon C70
or on a Sony with IBIS, I feel pretty comfortable
going no lens stabilization because the body is doing the work but, you know if you don't
have the body doing the work then you want the lens doing the work. Unless you're using
something like a handheld rig or a gimbal or a tripod. Now native ISOs on the sensor, it is 400 and 3200. Now, we're losing the light. So let's check out some of this low light. Hey, how's that 3200
ISO looking right now? - [Recorder] Not too bad. - Not bad? Wait, where is it? You see,
- It's right over there. - Oh here, oh next one.
- No no no, the next one. - Oh my god.
- Wow. - Look at that beauty. - [Recorder] That is
beautiful. Where is he? Show us the bike. - You already saw it. I saw you.
- [Recorder] We did see it, but not up close. - I saw you peeking. - [Recorder] Are you super happy? - I'm so happy. - [Recorder] Oh my god.
- So happy. - [Recorder] I can't believe
how good the 3200 ISO looks, wow, look at that, it's pretty
good lighting right here. - I don't think we've ever
formally introduced you. You just kind of like appear
on the videos sometimes. But this is Mateo. - Hi. - We actually met like what? 10 years ago? Something like that.
- Yeah. - Because he had a motorcycle club and then we used to go
riding together all the time. (motorcycle engine roars) Oh yeah. Oh my god. This thing,
this thing feels good. Riding it stills makes me nervous. I'm not used to a bike this big. This thing is, this thing is fat. - Yeah it's fat.
- This thing is chubby. I like it.
- It looks small. It looks like a Sportster but once you sit on it, you can (indistinct)
- You're like what is this? Wow, that is so cool dude! I'm so excited for you man. You know you have to model for us, you're like the good
looking guy in the group. You got to be like the model. Yeah, you got the motorcycle. Sam, what time is it? - It's giveaway time. - [Host] And we're giving away? A brand new motorcycle. - No, we're not. Maybe like a key chain of this, but. - [Host] No, it's actually cool
guy Musicbed sequence time. (group laughs) Slow motion, just trust me. Just go and like look off into space and you'll look cool. (inspiring rock music) Looking at the ports, we have a 3.5 mil mic
jack and a headphone jack. If you go a little bit lower, we get a full sized HDMI. And we get two mini XLR inputs. We also have USBC. Which we can also run power to the camera, I mean it's not going
to be that much power but at least it's gonna
trickle charge your battery. And we also have our 12 volt input. I've also got this microphone up here. But there is no hot shoe
or cold shoe up here, so I actually just adapted this cold shoe onto the quarter inch up here so, if you prefer the quarter inch, you can mount a monitor
on there with an arm but I have this cold
shoe on there for now. Now, one thing I don't love
about this vertical grip, is that is does heighten
the camera a little bit and even though it's firmly
mounted onto this tripod, there's still a little bit of that wiggle. See that, it's not as firmly
on there as I would wish. And this is on as tight as I can. I have it. (grunts) Right there, you can see a
lot of that play generates, right around here. Does this camera make
me look beautiful Sam? - [Sam] Dude, yeah. - Am I gorgeous? The dynamic range is probably
pretty decent, right? Like, I'm in the shade,
it's bright daylight now. Okay, so quick interruption, we accidentally filmed this whole scene in high frame rate mode. So, it was recording in slow motion, fifty frames per second, but good news is that we were at least able to recover the audio. Because the audio gets recorded, even in high frame rate mode. The audio gets recorded in real time and the video gets played
back in slow motion. So, I just had to re-sync
the video clip to the audio and we're good to go. That is a feature that I really love about Blackmagic cameras, there's not that many
cameras out there that do it, so the audio's back. We're able to still use this scene. The only thing that's still
off is the shutter speed, I had it at a 180 degrees shutter and when it went up to
fifty frames per second, it set the shutter to one,
one hundredth of a second. So you may notice that the motion blur is a little bit sharper, but other than that I
think it looks pretty good. So, on with the scene. I've always been impressed
at how clear it looks and the amount of dynamic range, so here this is how it
looks with no color grade in the film color profile. And then we're gonna go ahead and slap a color grade on it. I'm in the shadow and we're filming in
the middle of the day, so you kinda get an idea of how much dynamic range we're getting. We're gonna read some comments now. Rafael asks, "SDI or XLR ports?". You don't get SDI so you're
gonna have to rely on HDMI and XLR ports, we actually get two mini XLR inputs, which is an upgrade from
the one mini XLR inputs that we used to get on the 6K and the 4K. I do think that's a
pretty big upgrade though because anytime I'm recording anything somewhat professional, I like to run at least two channels. One shot gun mic and one Lavalier. "You can't really be serious
to go around doing vlogs". (laughs) Not really with this camera, I mean I guess I kinda can. Since it doesn't have
that continuous autofocus and I can't actually
see what I'm recording, it's not really a vlogging camera, at all. "This vs the C70", now, thank you. They're pretty different. I want to say this is a
great content creator camera, where you have autofocus, a lot of convenient features. And also I like that it's an RF mount and I have a speed booster attached to it, so that now it's an EF mount. You could also adapt it to PL lenses and it still has that
great ten bit internal. It's a great camera, but what's cool about the Blackmagic is that you could do internal 12 bit RAW, which is really powerful and I just love the image
quality coming out of it. But when it comes to convenience features, like autofocus, it has that one shot autofocus where, you can press it, it'll
focus on the subject and it just stays there. It doesn't have that continuous autofocus that you would need for
something like a vlog. Also the Blackmagic, you're kinda stuck at just the EF lenses and it's pretty hard
to adapt that too much. And also if you want to adapt
the speed booster to it, then you have an option
to do something like that with LucAdapters or LucAdapters, whatever you call them, but they have this optic
that you can actually drop into the 4K and 6K, if you want it to look
more like a full frame, but you don't get that
option in the 6K Pro, because they put some ND filters in there. So as of right now, I don't know if there's
anything that you can throw back there if you're going
for more of a full frame look. "Okay for real, how is the ND filter?" Like I said, it only goes up to 6 stops but it's super convenient, you just press a button
and it slides right in. I have noticed, that there's a magenta tint
as you go heavier on the ND, but that's pretty easy to correct, especially if you're shooting in RAW. "Is it better than the A7SIII?", Oh. Again, different features, you got full frame on the A7SIII. You get convenience features, if you want to vlog, definitely A7SIII. But if you want that
super powerful RAW codec, and just this image, look how nice it looks. Right? Blackmagic started really
well with their color science and also $2500. This is cheaper than the A7SIII, much cheaper than this Canon C70. So if you're a filmmaker and you're a cinematographer, you're gonna be behind the camera, you're going to just be focused on getting the best image possible, instead of looking for
convenience features. Then, this is a really
really great budget option. But what's interesting is, one of the projects I took this camera on, we were shooting on
two Blackmagic cameras, two Sony A7SIII's, and also an A1 and we were able to grade
them all pretty similarly. Sam, are you having fun
manually focusing back there? - [Sam] No. - You've been kinda spoiled
with the autofocus on this, haven't you? - [Sam] I am, I can't work
professionally ever again. - (laughs) "Would you buy, if you
already have the normal 6K?" I personally would, mostly for those built in ND filters. I also like the bigger batteries, but if you already have
a 6K that's kitted out with a nice monitor, you have a good system going with it, then you're gonna get pretty
similar results with it. So it really depends on
where you're sitting. "How do I get to be in the outro?" All you gotta do is record a video of yourself giving me a ten second outro and email it to, right here. And yeah, we're always looking for outros because you guys know how much
I hate doing my own outros. Has the camera died? - Yeah, I mean, it's back up now. But. So it just shut off on me. - [Host] Yeah, well that's
what I kinda meant about how, you have to keep a good
eye on the battery. I mean here it shows two of them dead, one of them still okay, but it just kind of cut mid take, right? - Well right before this, it was showing that,
- [Host] Oh there it is, yeah. See.
- Yeah, right before this, it was showing that it was two full ones and only one dead one, so I thought we were fine and then it just cut off out of nowhere. - [Host] Yeah, that's something that
Blackmagic needs to work on, is being more predictable on
when the battery is gonna die. Now, one thing that is nice about this, is that you can go ahead and
hop swap these batteries, so the camera can still
run while you go ahead and throw these on the charger. Easiest way to charge
it in our experiences, is to actually just go ahead and plug it in and it's going to go ahead and charge all three batteries. So there's two in here and there's also a battery, right inside of here. But in order to access that battery, you actually have to take off the grip, which isn't that big of a deal. It's just this one screw, right here. Honestly, I feel like
if we're gonna take this out on a professional job, the best option is to feed it off of a V-mount or something like that. This thing will last
forever on one of those. That way you don't have
to just worry constantly. Or just keep it plugged in. - Yeah. - All right, so let's go ahead and wrap this up. Is this the camera for you? I think it really depends
on what your needs are in a camera. This thing, super powerful. I love the image that comes out of it. But at this price point, it is cutting some corners. So let's start with the shortcomings. My number one issue is how
unpredictable the battery life is and how it'll shut off on
you with very little warning. I thought this battery grip might help and it does extend the
juice of this camera, but it still doesn't really
help it's predictability of when it's gonna shut off. If anything, I'd probably get one of those Core V-mount batteries, that you can mount to the
bottom of this camera. That's how we've been
powering our 4K and 6K, and it seems like this might still be the best option on here. Plus, since this camera doesn't have any image stabilization, I hate how it can cause
the camera to jitter, even when it's on a tri-pod, thanks to this battery grip. So I wouldn't get this, but maybe I would get
the viewfinder which, you can unscrew this and mount that on top. That could be useful. And I love what they've
done with the monitor. It's much more usable when
it articulates like this, it's nice and bright, of course it comes with
that tint which again, was a pretty simple fix. I matched the color to my small HD and since then I haven't
had any issues there. Of course, I'm loving
the built-in ND filters, even though it could only go to six, but there is still that
color shift that happens. I've tried it with three different lenses, same results, especially in the shadows. Everything kinda skews
a little bit magenta. I did the same test with the canon C70, and you can see that
Cannon definitely used much higher quality ND filters, because there's very little shift there. And then for slow motion, if you want anything over
sixty frames per second, there's gonna be a pretty
significant crop in here. So yeah, you can do 120, but it's gonna be pretty punched-in. But now that you understand some of the short-comings of you know, not having autofocus, not having IBIS, this is an incredibly powerful camera. 12 bit RAW, 10 bit ProRes 422 HQ. The image quality is phenomenal. It's super sharp and the color grading
process is very simple. After the gen 5 upgrade, which is also now
available for the 4K or 6K, I think Blackmagic might have one of my favorite color sciences. Sciences? Science. I think it looks really cinematic and I also love that
they give you flexibility on what kind of media to write to, from C fast to SD cards, to an external SSD that
you can mount up top and hook it up to USB. Although, I would highly
recommend just going ahead and getting a CFast card. I would go SanDisk, I know this is a Lexar, but I would go with SanDisk. Just to media, you don't really want to skimp out on, like I did, I've learned the hard way. Now the external SSD is nice because you can literally unplug it, hook it up to the computer and just edit straight off there. And then the SD card is
nice for if you're in a jam. I was actually surprised at
how many formats you can write to an SD card. But CFast is definitely gonna
be the safest way to go, you know the SD card or external SSD, they may not be able to handle
some of the higher formats. And if it does cut on you, because the memory card
wasn't fast enough, then it doesn't really give
you a big warning sign, which I think it should. And also the only other
thing`is I wish that when you were in High Frame Rate Mode, there was easier way to tell. You have to kinda look in that corner, which is why we probably had
it on High Frame Rate Mode and started recording a segment and didn't realize it until we were like halfway
through recording it. But other than that, another thing that
Blackmagic does really well, is their user interface. Their menu, very simple to understand. I love how simple it is, there's not too much crazy menu items like a Sony camera has. The buttons and controls
are pretty well laid out, where it's not overly complicated but you could still access a majority of the tools you want. It's honestly a really
pleasant camera to use. Blackmagic has really
come a really long way since their original cameras, which had all kinds of problems and lines going through
the sensor and all that. But this, is a really solid camera. I think if you're the type that
doesn't need the autofocus, or IBIS, you just want
great image quality. This is probably the one to get, for 2500 bucks, there's not
much else that competes. Links down there in the description and let's go ahead and cut to the close. (energetic rock music begins) (energetic rock music continues) - I learned that from Potato Jet. I mean the editing guys, obviously. Otherwise, why do you
think I wear sunglasses? It's to hide the fact that
I was staring at my computer for way too long. So subscribe! - [Disgruntled Man] Hey,
what happened to my bike? - Gotta go, bye.
