World's Smallest Digital Film Camera - Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera | Review

If you've followed the Kultamak YouTube channel for a while, hopefully you've noticed the

videos improving over time, in terms of my presenting, writing, filming and editing

But as well as techniques and experience, I've also been trying to improve equipment as often as I can

One of the biggest improvements in my opinion is the camera quality

Since running the channel I've gone through 3 or 4 different cameras before finally landing on the Blackmagic 4K production camera, which I now use on a daily basis

The reason I've stayed with this camera is that it shoots S-Log, meaning I can choose to not have any in-camera processing and instead recording a flat image

That way I have more control of colour and exposure in post-production. It also films in ProRes, so I don't have to do any format conversion in order to edit

I have the option for 4K and it allows me to use Canon mount lenses

Blackmagic has been around since 1984 producing capture cards and software, but only started

producing cameras in the last 4 or 5 years. One of the most interesting to me is the Micro Cinema Camera

It starts at $995 just for the body which is about the size of a large apple

In fact it's the world's smallest digital film camera weighing just 10.65oz

If you're not familiar with production ready cameras, buying just the body is a pretty standard affair

Usually grips, lenses, screens and so on come as an extra, as depending on the type of rig

you plan to set up, depends on what accessories you need. The obvious use for the Blackmagic Micro Camera is for drones and car rigs, which is primarily

what this camera has been designed for, and easy enough to mount thanks to its 3 tripod

mounting points. Ok, so it costs $500 more than the top of the range GoPro, but the advantage of having

a camera like this is that the colour profile isn't baked in, you can use interchangeable

lenses and you can shoot either Cinema DNG RAW or Apple ProRes 1080p with a range of

frame rates. It uses a Super 16 size sensor with 13 stops of dynamic range

On the side there's a 3.5mm mic jack, HDMI and a customisable expansion port which I'll

come back to in a minute. The Micro Camera utilises Micro Four Thirds lenses, which means there's a wide variety

of lenses available or you can use an adapter, and you're not stuck to the standard wide

angle lens such as with the GoPro. You can also film in S-Log which means it retains more information in the picture, again

making it easier to match the look of the smaller drone camera to the rest of your footage

As well as drones, the Blackmagic Micro Camera is also ideal as a tiny production camera

which is how I tested it for the majority of my time, as I didn't have access to a drone

As long as you've got enough cash to fork out for a monitor and some lenses, you're good to go, and having such a powerful camera in such a tiny package is great for anyone

who needs to run and gun about instead of carrying a bulky camera

As you can see from the footage, the picture quality is amazing. For a camera to produce such beautiful images from such a small body is ridiculous

One thing I didn't really play with is the expansion port, which comes with this mess

of cables. But you can use it to map functions of joysticks and controllers, so you can control the camera's

settings whilst it's in the air. The only thing I disliked about the camera is the placement of the buttons on the front

I know there's not exactly anywhere else to put them, but they're just a bit awkward to get to

If you're looking for a new drone camera or just need a tiny rig, the Blackmagic Micro

Cinema Camera is the perfect fit for that cinema quality look. Well that's it for this video

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