I've produced a couple of shorts, cut-ins, and and one commercial using this camera. I have quite a bit of experience with the BMD line of cameras; I'm teaching a class on BMD at NAB this year. I personally own an Ursa Mini, a Pocket Cinema, the MicroCinema both in 1080 and 4K models, and a 4K production camera. Note the 4K production camera wrist-mounted in this image from "Kingsmen."
@SurfnSkate81 , if you're in Melbourne or Sydney, I'm SURE there is a dealer there that could arrange a short-term loan of the BMD Micro. It's a very well-built camera. I'd recommend you try the HD vs the Micro, unless you have a Ninja or Odyssey with which to record the signal OTA with a Blade or Teradek wireless system.
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My previous post does not suggest I'm an advocate for 8K right now, but to suggest it's a waste is to be an ostrich.
If getting hung up on frames per second is the focus, then sure...we're heading down that road too. Not for purposes of slow motion, but rather greater motion capture that looks terrific on high refresh-rate screens. FWIW, two things that
scream "Amateur" are overly done slow motion and long crossfade transisitons in edits.
@indonesianpilot , you suggest that 4K currently has "very low framerates." What on earth are you talking about? "Very low" to anyone who has been in the industry for longer than 24 months means 12fps, 15fps. 24, 25, 30, 48fps have been standards for longer than you've been alive. 60fps will be the new standard, and most everything is now upgraded to edit it. But it still cannot be broadcast, nor can it be sent efficiently over pipes right now without a loss in resolution. So which is it? Great slow mo with a weak picture? Or great picture at framerates that echo the eye's ability to resolve?
<<i personally will choose a 120fps 4K over 30fps 8K in an action cam.>>
In the industry, we call this "Measurebating." Jerking off over numbers without experience or knowledge in what the numbers actually mean, or cost the user.
Bear in mind that certain codecs do better with high resolutions than others, and don't necessarily translate to lower resolutions very well. ProRes simply blows at 4K, and blows worse at 8K. HEVC is terrific with 4 and 8K but blows at 1080.
Glass, resolution, bitrate, DSP, and compression are the keys to a good image, and other than focal length, the size of the package merely gets smaller and smaller as more schemes for heat dissipation are discovered.
GoPro included.