Blackmagic Confident Pocket Cinema Camera with RAW & 4K Camera Will Both Ship in July | No Film School

While they've rarely had major delays with their other equipment, the company has had some serious problems delivering the Blackmagic Cinema Camera. If you've had a pre-order on the camera, you certainly know this by now. With the announcement of two new cameras at NAB, the Pocket Cinema Camera and Production Camera 4K, some of these same questions have come up again. Can they deliver in July as promised? Will there be delays that push camera availability weeks, or even months from the original release date?

In this video from News Shooter, it is reiterated that they are confident the cameras will ship on time, and there is even mention that the Pocket camera should ship with RAW CinemaDNG -- something that has been up in the air since NAB:

The little camera is still the one I've been most excited about just because of what it packs in such a tiny package. There is not another camera out there shooting RAW and ProRes at this size, and it's unlikely we will see one this size from any other major manufacturer shooting in those formats anytime soon (if ever). If this were a camera from Sony or Canon, it would be shooting highly compressed H.264 of some kind. Instead, we are given just about everything the sensor has to offer, including RAW sensor data.

Richard seems a little less confident about the 4K camera at one point, which has been the word on the street, but after everything that has happened, I would be surprised if the company would have its people saying that they are confident about shipping dates if they weren't internally. It's worth mentioning that the previous Cinema Camera would not have had any delays were it not for the sensor company they were working with changing a key part of the manufacturing process right around the time the camera was originally set to ship.

Either way, we don't have long to go to see if the cameras ship on time and what kind of volume we're actually looking at.

Link: Broadcast Asia 2013: Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera Update -- News Shooter

Disclosure: Blackmagic is a No Film School advertiser.

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What's the Hype With 'Interstellar' Revisiting Cinemas After a Decade in 70mm IMAX?

Here's Why You Need to Revisit 'Interstellar' in 70mm IMAX

Celebrate the love and hope at the center of Nolan's space epic in the format it was meant to be seen.

If we know anything about Christopher Nolan, he likes to go big. Nolan started with smaller-scale stories (as many of us do) with early noir adjacent works like Following, Memento, and Insomnia, then started going and staying big with his illusionist drama The Prestige. Since then, the scale has been various degrees of massive, with the biggest scope in his time-and-space sprawling epic, Interstellar.

While Interstellarmight not be everyone's favorite Nolan outing, there's no denying it's an impressive feat of filmmaking and his most emotional—if watching Matthew McConaughey's Cooper desperately try to reach his family through quantum space-time doesn't make you cry at least a little bit, what's going on, dude?

With Interstellar'sIMAX release, it's a great time to shed some tears in a public setting in one of the most prestigious film formats around. As we mentioned in our film gauge piece, Nolan loves shooting on film and utilizes 65mm intentionally to provoke a tone of massive scale. In that regard, Interstellar was made for 70mm IMAX. That goes without saying, dawg. That being said, other factors make Interstellar a perfect movie to revisit in theaters while you can.

Let's break down the release further below.

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