One Year with the Blackmagic Pocket 6k Pro - Worth it in 2022?

Today - we're talking about the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6k Pro, and my experience with the camera after owning it for a full year. This is a full review after using it daily for multiple months now, for a variety of projects. Is the Blackmagic Pocket 6k Pro worth it in 2022? Watch and find out!
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[@Rabbitunderground]

Love this review. Told me everything I was hoping to discover. Subbed!

[@Streetyboy5]

Very comprehensive review! Thank you

[@DanielJamesBird]

thank you! 😊

[@CX3Productions]

Thanks for the lenses you use breakdown. 👍

[@stanislife_]

Great video! Thank you for sharing!

[@DanielJamesBird]

thank you!

[@BrendanEvan]

Incredibly balanced and realistic review!

[@DanielJamesBird]

thank you Brendan!

[@aprofondir]

A camera could come out in 2023 and people would be making "is it worth in 2023" videos! Anyway, excellent video, I learned a lot.

[@CollinShook]

Good stuff! Got my 6kpro 2 months ago, added a bmpcc4k a month ago, both used and 40-50% off on eBay. I honestly shoot more with the rigged out 4k with a speed booster as I'm learning more handheld work, but as a live-streamer for concerts that has many canon cams and an Atem Iso, having these two paired with the switcher, the 6k rules for my uses! I'm still thinking about getting more 6kpro's, when the price is right on eBay, but I'm really excited to see what BlackMagic releases next before making the plunge

[@DanielJamesBird]

All of the Pocket ecosystem cameras I think are great! And can definitely be used for a lot of uses. Thanks for the comment Collin!

[@alexfournier9956]

I LL GO FOR THE 12K VERSION I SAVE A LOT NOW TO GET IT BY THE END OF 2023 but also i ll go for NIKON Z8 CANON R5 II PANASONIC S1H II, SONY A7R5 already got

[@jackofblades6736]

Yes even the original bmpcc is worth in the right hands.

[@DineshBhadwal]

What a fantastic review. Good work. What are your views on Panasonic S1H? Shoots 6K internally and BM Raw externally, industry leading image stabilisation, the best flippy screen, weather sealed metal built, good autofocus and great low light capabilities since it's a full frame mirrorless. Not to mention, it's Netflix approved.

[@ddiogo.santoss]

Great review, I have the BMPCC6K and I love it! What gimbal do you use, if you use any?

[@DanielJamesBird]

Thank you! I’ve used it well with a Crane 2S. But I’d personally recommend the Ronin RS2.

[@gssg2010]

After nine months, I completely agree... except for the lenses. I've been using Rokinon prime cine lenses for personal work and rent the ones we use for production.

[@DanielJamesBird]

glad to hear! Hope you're enjoying the Rokinons!

[@AndyLSB]

this is what a REAL review looks like, awesome video man ! really enjoyed it, I've been interested on the P6k Pro for a while now but Haven't pulled the trigger yet, I've used the P4k before and its amazing, I weirdly loved its form factor but it isn't the most practical camera, I'm mainly a Lumix Shooter(GH6, G9) and love those cameras because they're "EVERYTHING" cameras I feel, awesome stabilization, great IQ, the DR on the GH6 is superb, etc. but there's something about those BlackMagic cameras that I love, I really hope BlackMagic releases a "Cube" form camera, that could be "the one".

[@nzpatm]

How do you find the quality of the ND filters? Also, is 6 stops enough for your weddings - from a fellow wedding film maker

[@davetinoco]

It’s been like 1 year...why wouldn’t it be worth it? My original bmpcc lasted me about 5 years.

[@quiztasiarocks]

Hey Daniel, thanks so much for talking about the 6K as a KZbin camera. Do you always manual focus for talking head videos or do you autofocus on the app? Also, do you use ATEM at all to help with communicating with the camera? Once focus is set, does it ever veer out of focus. Lastly do you have your lens aperture wide open for these videos? Thanks again

[@DanielJamesBird]

Hey! Thank you! So I use a Tilta Nucleus Nano wirelessly to dial in my focus for something like this, and I use the bluetooth app and not an ATEM. I've never had it veer out of focus no! And not wide open - probably around f3.5 but can vary depending on setup.

[@ykchew4793]

Hi, I saw that you use the Sandisk Extreme Pro UHS I v30 instead of II v90, have you run into any limitation on how high settings it can go?

[@DanielJamesBird]

I mainly shoot to an SSD - so don’t quote me on this as I haven’t properly tested it. But I believe it was around 24fps 4k DCI Prores. No HFR stuff

[@ykchew4793]

@@DanielJamesBird I've been searching everywhere to no result to see if a cheap v30 SD card can at least record 4k prores and less. So it's a great help as a reference point for me. Thank you!

[@ofearths7430]

where do you get your audio?

[@DanielJamesBird]

All of my music is from Epidemic Sound! :)

[@kennethperkins9480]

This camera rocks! I shot a 48 hour film challenge last weekend with my pocket 6k coupled with Zeiss cp3 lenses. Great combination! Here’s the results: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIuQd4FvrNSNh7M

[@terryhatziieremias]

Actually your footage has noise