I shot a short film named Mandy on the Black Magic Pocket Cinema Design 6k. 6k fills up fast on 2 CFast Cards, we got it done in less than 48 hours with all the schedule conflicts. It is a good camera with built in ND Filters. Night Scenes are the toughest to film, but we did our best with what we had. However, after filming I was told it needed to be downgraded to 1080p or at least 4k. I couldn’t do re-shoots, so I kept it at 6k, Then shot at 4k Pro Res 422, to clear up room on cfast card. that was a mistake. Lesson learned, so I took footage to my brothers editing bay and he showed me on 3 different monitors how it would look. So I kept the 6k and did not win the challenge. You can see both 6k footage very clearly when the 4k Pro Res 422 looses pixelation and looks distorted, a challenge at night shoots. What do you think of the short? https://www.dropbox.com/s/f1zchtn70vn9bn7/KristinaSmithCFC21.mov?dl=0
Cinematography : Built in ND Filters are good for Black Magic Pockect Cinema 6k by Kristina Smith
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Hi Kristina - congrats on your film! I'm not versed in night shoots but maybe someone in my network will see this and can help you?
Yeah, it's definitely dark. Are you working with a gaffer or at least a light meter? The built-in ND filters aren't going to be helpful for INT lighting, which seems like what you used mostly, yes?
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I used a Newer Light off to left of screen and used the ND Filter to diffuse the light source from Ring Light
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I did not use internal lights lol, everything was off lol except the Newer ring light
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Congratulations on your film Kristina Smith .
Last year we shot a 16 min short film in two days in about 24 hours all together. It got into the semi finals here on Stage32 short film contest.
Everything was shot on our Pocket 4K and basically the only two things I miss are internal NDs and a flip screen which the 6K Pro has.
What I don't miss is the 6K since even the 4K makes huge files but 6K would be crazy.
In either case I love the BRAW codec on these cameras combined with Resolve.
I love these cameras and we've done so many projects on them, even though we initially though we'd use them only for our stuff. But they proved a really good investment.