BMPCC OG: Image Quality, Limitations And Its 4 Cardinal Virtues - A Short Honest Review

[@imanbinamran]

Absolutely incredible, love everything about this video. Story telling, grading, editing etc. Amazing. Got myself BMPCC OG a few months ago and been posting some of the result on my channel. Though I was doubt at first, but now I never regret purchasing it.

[@thoratius4363]

Thank you very much for your kind words! I've taken a look at your videos and your grading is marvellous! Keep posting those shorts!

[@ZiroWatt]

IMO the sigma fp is the perfect "pocket" cinema camera. But this thing really was way ahead of its time.

[@J.K.productionsDE]

Incredible. The shots, the unusual 1:1 aspect ratio, just super unique on KZbin. What a niche I found here!

[@mega8olt]

awesome video! colorgrading is so authentic)

[@MarcosSeneor]

Great vídeo! Thanks! The canon lenses f 1.9 is 16-116mm or 16-100mm? I couldn’t find any mention to the 16-116mm…

[@thoratius4363]

Thank you! You're right, the canon lens is the 16-100mm! f1.9

[@FilmSpook]

🙏🏾 This is a MASTERPIECE!!! Many Thanks, my Brother. 😎

[@pony_boy]

This sold me on the BMPCC, thank you 🙏🏼

[@theodoreivanov6257]

I just got one today on ebay. Can you describe a bit more your color grading process, I believe you have gotten as close to the film look as possible.

[@zhivkovision]

how did you do the kodak vision + fuji print emulation?

[@courier971]

That grade looks amazing. Just what I'm trying to get with my bmpcc.

[@zygote396]

that sound at 4:25 scared the shiza out of me

[@Flowstatecaptain]

Love this man. My memories of shooting 35mm feel like how this footage looks. Might have to pick up one of these or the 4k. Ideally both cause shooting friends or day trips with this just seems way more casual. Nice work

[@cedartreefilms]

have both and def would recommend the og. The 4k is like twice the size and still needs a battery plate

[@Flowstatecaptain]

@@cedartreefilms Just bought one! Cool content with yours btw. Thanks for the recommendation. I agree the small form factor is a game changer

[@jimmyzjam]

Beautiful work! What was your colorgrade steps for the footage of the woman at 1:06??

[@thoratius4363]

Hey! So i'm using Davinci to color grade and the first step is a simple Color space transform to blackmagic gen4 + 500T fuji 3513 film stock emulation through dehancer, i usually grade with that because it's faster and often yields a great retro result, you can even try to recreate it through powergrades but first you must study pretty well the light response of the film stock you want to recreate, davinci resolve studio offers a great deal of instruments that will allow you to do that, not simple but totally achievable, if you don't have 300$ to spend on dehancer you could check Juan Melara's blog, he's an expert in recreating old film stocks!

[@jimmyzjam]

@@thoratius4363 Thanks a lot! I do have Dehancer. If you have a powergrade for that clip you don't mind sharing that would be great! Your work is great!

[@thoratius4363]

@@jimmyzjam hey! So if you're curious send me a IG message @photorattus and i'll share with you a drive folder with some of my stills!

[@jimmyzjam]

@@thoratius4363 Thanks so much. I'll message you today- just now getting around to this.

[@GabagoolForeverAndAlways]

What would be a recommendation for filmic looking cameras if its not the BMPCC?

[@FilmSpook]

Canon EOS M with Magic Lantern RAW firmware hack, or a hacked Panasonic GH2 with a high bitrate, are a couple. A Nikon D5300 is also cheap, and has a nice filmic look with its 24MP CMOS sensor.

[@GabagoolForeverAndAlways]

@@FilmSpook thanks!

[@Filmlove453]

I love your videos the bmpcc og is my favorite camera of all time

[@1337BR3AK]

amazing how I own a 6K and I will be selling it to get the OG for the last reason you mention - and that I didn't realize it until now

[@AndrewMcNally-e1d]

That's a moire! Best catch phrase for OG ever.

[@syd_zeiss]

Qué bien ejecutado el color carnal. La OG es tan guapa que tengo retratos de la mía en mi sala. Joder que me compraré otra para conservar toda mi vida este look tan guapo. Saludos y buenos bailes (festivales).

[@comoquiseresman]

Great video!! do you think m42 lenses will also add to the film look?

[@thoratius4363]

I think they'll certainly contribute to an older aesthetic, modern lenses tend to be of higher glass quality than those produced in the 70s and 80s, I often prefer the older ones when shooting people, the skin would often look softer and nicer, with less visible imperfections. Also some of these older lenses have weird or interesting bokeh such as the famous helios 44-2. So i highly encourage you to experiment with old lenses (might end up being even cheaper!)

[@comoquiseresman]

@@thoratius4363 Thank you for the advice! I also have an OG , may i ask you where you bought your Canon v6x16?

[@thoratius4363]

@@comoquiseresman Of course! I usually go for Ebay, but in Italy we also have Subito.it, if i remember correctly i found this one there, must have been around 80€, but I wouldn't go searching for "canon v6x16", i'd search for a generic "vintage broadcast lens", check the photos and description and see if you get close to one of these (people often mislabel them and even if you don't find a canon one, there are also good fujinon tv lenses worth checking out ). Good Luck!

[@eifionjones8513]

Great video man 👌

[@GearZenChannel]

You can use lenses with stabilization.

[@thoratius4363]

Yes you could use them but you should find MFT lenses in the range of 10-25mm because the bmpcc og has an almost x3 crop factor and the lens image stabilization is somewhat useless with narrower field of views, IS is also meant for photography stationary shooting, to aid capturing shots in low light conditions when a longer exposition would be required and a tremulous hand might ruin the shot, it won't really help you that much when shooting in motion, but a combination of IS + stabilization in post is still better than no stabilization.

[@cedartreefilms]

@@thoratius4363I’m tempted by 8-25mm f4 oly pro. It’s the only 24-70 equivalent that I know of for the OGs 2.88 crop

[@MrLegitFlip]

Where can I get that rig case?

[@thoratius4363]

Eh, I'm afraid it has been discontinued, you might be lucky and find one on second hand marketplaces like ebay, but more often than not these cages tend to be way too overpriced

[@colinthomas2525]

Will Von Tagen makes them now. Look him up, I just got a whole rig setup from him and it’s amazing.

[@dlprod11]

Great Video.

[@bryanhiltner3552]

Fantastic vid man! Love the looks you achieve, and you managed to intercut your footage with Blade Runner very smoothly. 😲 I shoot on 2 cameras: the BMPCC OG and a Krasnogorsk-3 Ultra16mm film camera. It’s been fun intercutting their footage. I use a cheap MFT to M42 speedbooster on the OG, and since the K3 has a M42 mount I’ve been using the same Pentax Takumar vintage lenses on both cameras.

[@thoratius4363]

Ohhh so you're one of the bold ones who's taken the next step and actually shoots film! the Krasnogorsk-3 is fairly affordable from what i've heard but the cost of developing and scanning the 16mm film is still too prohibitive for me, unfortunately here in Italy I haven't found any lab that develops and scans motion picture film at a reasonable price :/ ... I'm curious though of the result you've achieved intercutting the two cameras, do you have by chance any available footage?

[@Miguel.Garcia]

How closely can you match the BMPCC to the K3?

[@bryanhiltner3552]

@@Miguel.Garcia I’ve been trying to share links in my replies here, but KZbin/some sinister force is deleting them for some reason… maybe because I’m sharing Vimeo links? Not sure… I haven’t tried hard to make the BMPCCOG footage indistinguishable from the K3 footage yet, both because I’m not a colorist (still learning) and because I haven’t yet had a reason to. However, given that the BMPCCOG can shoot in that raw format, and the scans I get back from shooting on my K3 are 6K and can be manipulated in all sorts of ways, I think it can be done.

[@Miguel.Garcia]

@@bryanhiltner3552 beautiful thank you! Anyway to find you on Vimeo?

[@mikeospina1737]

awesome video!

[@ilya_ash]

🖤

[@daylight5500]

❤

[@recesss]

I shot a feature film with this camera. I own 2.

[@AbrahamMadriz]

Wich film do you used it

[@theyshouldhavenevergivenme5439]

That's weirdest 'posh' English accent I have ever heard. It gets tiresome after a while, but I'll take it. ;) Why is the entire video in old TV format?

[@thoratius4363]

Hahah! I'm sorry if it was painful to hear, I'm Italian and i've tried to leave the mamma mia cannoli gabibbo e i santi out of the equation, I might have done a great disservice though. The video is in square format bc " A R T I S T I C F R A M I N G" ... Which means my lazy ass decided I would end up exporting the same video for both my IG and YT page 🐙

[@theyshouldhavenevergivenme5439]

@@thoratius4363 bruh.. If they ever recast 'What We Do In The Shadows' I'm putting your name in the hat. 😅👍🏽 That blade runner insert @ 07:11 just looks amazing 👀 but I could not find a video from you about it.. is that you or Henry Cavill? It is really hard to tell man

[@thoratius4363]

@@theyshouldhavenevergivenme5439 yeah it was just a little experiment to improve my vfx and colour grading skills, from time to time I would try to replace myself in movies I love. I would totally love to be cast in What We Do In The Shadows, might try to replace myself in one episode to practise davinci fusion a bit more hehe.

[@theyshouldhavenevergivenme5439]

@@thoratius4363 Bro contact 'them' when you have I'd love to see it. You should really be applying at some casting agencies maybe through some Milan office for some of those LA csa's .... You should publish the whole Blade Runner interrogation scene let's see it. Do these things now and I shall lift my curse ;)

[@sdufg]

lazy italian is an oxymoron.

[@Jesaaelys]

Hi, what adapter you use to attach the lens to the camera? Sorry, new to blackmagic here 🥲

[@thoratius4363]

Hey, if you're referring to the canon vintage lens it's a c mount to mft mount adapter but tbf i've had to go through a bunch of them to find the right one as some of them didn't allow me to reach infinity focus. Good thing is they are fairly cheap

[@Jesaaelys]

@@thoratius4363 I saw your video and automatically fell in love with the footage using the 6x16 16-100mm and bought it but apparently the aperture doesn’t work and well idk what adapter or what exactly to do 😭

[@thoratius4363]

@@Jesaaelysthat's unfortunate, there are some adapters that have an iris built in but they are typically MFT to EF, i don't think you'll find a C to MFT mount that has it, the best option would be to send it back and search for another one on ebay as they are quite common and not really that expensive. You could otherwise send it to a lens repair center or if you feel corageous enough you could unscrew the back of the lens and the rear glass element and check if the blades are stuck or if the mechanism is still intact, sometimes old iris blades grind together and get deformed or there's too much oil in the mechanism, you could disassemble it and clean up the blades, I don't know if there are any available videos on yt explaining the process for this lens in particular, but once you learn how to disassemble any diaphragm the procedure is pretty much the same for all.