The Cinema Camera is a line of

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s developed and manufactured by

Blackmagic Design Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd. is an Australian digital cinema company and hardware manufacturer based in Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It designs and manufactures broadcast and cinema hardware, most notably high-end digital-movie camera ...

, introduced on September 4, 2012. They are a series of small form-factor cinema cameras that shoot in either 6k, 4K, 2.5K, and 1080p resolution, and thus are more versatile when compared to standard-resolution digital movie cameras.

Models

* Cinema Camera 2.5K (2012) * Pocket Cinema Camera (2013) * Production Camera 4K (2014) * Micro Cinema Camera (2016) * Pocket Cinema Camera 4K (2018) * Pocket Cinema Camera 6K (2018) * Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro (2021) * Pocket Cinema Camera 6K G2 (2022)

Features

Formats

All cameras use at least the RAW, Blackmagic RAW (BRAW),

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and/or Avid DNxHD codecs and formats in either 8K, 6K, 4K, 2.5K or 1080p.

Software

All of the cameras uses Blackmagic's proprietary Camera Utility software, in which all need to be connected to a computer via

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to install the firmware and are obtained through Blackmagic's Support Center.

References

{{Blackmagic Design Cameras Products introduced in 2012 Digital movie cameras