Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera

Extremely Customizable Design
The world's smallest completely open and customizable camera
The design of the Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera combines advanced miniaturization and a unique expansion port in a digital film camera that lets you create personalized rigs for remote operation and monitoring. The camera body is not much larger than the Micro Four Thirds lens mount making it as small as a camera with a professional lens can be. Its core is made out of a lightweight and strong magnesium alloy that makes it durable enough to shoot anywhere, from the ocean floor to the stratosphere or beyond! You can control the Micro Cinema Camera directly from the front buttons when it's mounted, or remotely when it's out of reach.

Revolutionary Expansion Port
Now you can create your own custom camera remote control
The revolutionary expansion port lets you create custom remote control, external power and monitoring solutions. The included breakout cable gives you access to many of the camera's unique functions, but you can also create your own custom cables that open the camera up to do even more. In addition to things like LANC, power, video out, and genlock, you also get 4 analog PWM radio remote control inputs so you can map camera functions to the dials, knobs, buttons and joysticks on model airplane remotes! For even more control with greater precision, you can use the 18 channel S.Bus control input with Futaba radio control equipment or custom embedded controllers.

Super 16mm Sensor
Wide dynamic range and global shutter!
The Super 16 sensor is full 1080 HD resolution and has an incredible 13 stops of dynamic range and global shutter up to 30 frames per second. Most DSLR and action cameras use a rolling shutter that exposes different parts of the image in fractions of a second, causing video to appear skewed or wobbly when the camera moves or vibrates. The Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera's global shutter acts more like a still camera, exposing the entire image at the same time so you get distortion and ripple free video! With an ISO up to 1600, the Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera also gives you great quality, even in locations with low lighting.

Interchangeable Lenses
Use a wide range of lightweight professional photo lenses
The Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera features an active Micro Four Thirds lens mount so you can use high performance photographic lenses including wide angle, primes, standard zooms, telephotos and more. That means you're not stuck with a built in lens and can choose the best lens for the job! The focus, iris and zoom on active MFT lenses can be controlled remotely from the camera's expansion port. Many MFT lenses also have built in optical image stabilization, making them perfect for use in places where there might be a lot of movement, shocks or vibration.

Professional Sound
High quality audio recording with built in or external microphones
Engineered for high quality audio recording, the built in high quality stereo microphone is omni-directional and features a mechanical design to help reduce unwanted wind noise so you get a clear recording. There's also a built in 3.5mm input connector so you can plug in directional or wireless clip on microphones. The 3.5mm input jack supports both mic or line level devices and automatically disables the internal mic when an external one is connected. The Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera gives you the flexibility to choose the right microphone or audio source for your production!

Battery or External Power
Use removable batteries or DC power sources
For remote recording, you can attach any readily available LP-E6 battery to the back of the camera and place it in all sorts of locations. The battery level is shown in an overlay when the camera is connected to an HDMI display or on the PAL/NTSC video output so you can monitor battery levels even when the camera is operated remotely. There is also an LED on the camera to indicate low battery condition as well as record status. The included breakout cable has a 12V DC input jack so you can use external power supplies or even rig up your own long lasting custom power sources!

The incredibly small camera that's massively expandable
The Micro Cinema Camera is an incredibly small, super 16, digital film camera that is designed to deliver great quality HD images. The Micro Four Thirds lens mount allows you to select from a wide range of incredibly sharp, interchangeable lenses. The core body and lens mount are made out of a sturdy magnesium alloy so you get a metal core that's incredibly light weight. The full sized HDMI output makes it easy to connect to an HD display for monitoring, while the expansion port opens the camera up to the widest variety of power, monitoring and remote control options.

Magnesium Alloy Core
Lightweight and super durable chassis and lens mount

The core chassis and lens mount of the Micro Cinema Camera are made from the same unique magnesium alloy that's used to build high performance racing car wheels. That means you get a super strong camera that's also lightweight! There are two ¼ thread mount points located on the top and bottom of the camera that can be used for securely fastening the camera onto a standard mini flexible tripod, a quadcopter platform or any other custom rig that you design.

Active Micro Four Thirds Lenses
The lightest weight,
The Micro Four Thirds lens mount allows you to select from a wide range of photo quality, interchangeable lenses where you have control over focal length, aperture setting and performance. Select from fast primes, wide angles with infinite focus or even specialty lenses like macro or tilt and shift lenses. You can even control active MFT lenses remotely using the expansion port's connections for radio remote control systems!

Maximum Connections
Monitoring, audio, power, remote and more!
The Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera is designed to give you the maximum number of connection options in the smallest amount of space. You get a full sized HDMI connection for wired or wireless HD monitoring along with a 3.5mm microphone input that works with both mic and line level devices. The expansion port gives you an incredible number of options, all from a single DB-HD15 port! The breakout cable includes 4 PWM inputs for analog radio remote control, composite video out, power and LANC. You can even create your own custom cable to take advantage of additional features on the expansion port!

Removable Batteries
Use readily available LP-E6 batteries
For convenient, portable power you can use Canon compatible LP-E6 batteries. These readily available, rechargeable batteries snap right onto the back of the camera for long recording times! The LED indicator on top of the camera blinks when battery power gets low, making it easy to know when you need to swap batteries. For longer shoots, the expansion port's breakout cable allows you to plug into DC power so you can plug into standard AC power or even connect to your own external batteries so you never miss a frame of the action!

Wireless Video Transmitters
Inexpensive video transmitters can take composite out of the Micro Cinema Camera and wirelessly transmit the signal to monitors. RF-Link, and Nyrius make composite video transmitters that send signals up to 300 ft away! You can view the live video feed on a monitor as well as camera settings overlays, remotely as the camera flies over head in a quadcopter. A more advanced monitoring solution is to use a wireless HDMI transmitter to connect to HD video glasses such as Zeiss Cinemizer OLED that surround you with the video signal so you can fly the quadcopter as a virtual reality experience!

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