Blackmagic Design has released some teaser footage shot on the new 4.6K URSA sensor. It’s a nice sample video because there are all kinds of footage in there. Much of it was shot documentary-style and really shows off the dynamic range. In particular, the night shots are impressively clean.
Check out the Blackmagic URSA 4.6K HD-422HQ test footage in the video:
This video was shot with the 4.6K Blackmagic URSA, Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 & Sigma 50mm f/1.4 ART lenses, and it was graded in Davinci Resolve.
It was shot by Blackmagic Shooter, Captain Hook. Here’s what he had to say about shooting with the new URSA:
“Couple of things about the URSA 4.6k footage for some ‘background’. I shot this on a prototype so things were still in development and changing.
This was also just me shooting solo with the URSA like previously and is “home movie” type stuff intended to be a quick first look. In fact, last time with my URSA beta video I had Danelle helping me to carry some gear but this time it was just me shooting some friends and around the city – definitely no crew or anything like that.
For the kitchen shots and the drumming I set up some lights, everything else is 100% natural light, not even bounce. Grading on this video is purposely VERY simple. It’s really just a quick setting of white balance, then contrast and saturation. I didn’t tweak individual colours or even shift colours with Lift/Gamma/Gain because I wanted to show the great natural colour “out of the box”.
This part is my personal opinion and obviously now that I work for BMD people will take it with a grain of salt (to be expected), but personally I think we’ve made a BIG improvement on colour – colour that I already really liked which led me to first purchase the BMCC as a customer.
I think the improvement in colour is just as big as the improvement on dynamic range. With DR, so far in my experience I think it’s safe to say that whatever you rate the Pocket Camera to be, add roughly 2 stops. 1 stop in the highlights, and another stop in the shadows.
I can’t wait for people to get this and go shoot some incredible footage with it!”
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