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Drawbacks of the Blackmagic USA 4K

Drawbacks of the Blackmagic USA 4K

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Drawbacks of the Blackmagic USA 4K

- Great camera. Wonderful performance. - Yup. - A few things, we'll trade back and forth. I'm gonna take the most obvious one. Every single person on my crew... (groaning) Yeah, from my business partner, to the PA, to everyone else when they grab this camera, they're like, "That's heavy!" - Yeah, this is not a walk around camera. This is not a pocket camera. This is, put it on a nice heavy duty tripod. Not your photo tripod. - Oh, and not even just your standard video tripod. We had to go and pull out our heaviest duty tripod. - Yeah. - This is designed for a cinema style tripod. So if you're just like, "Oh yeah, I got a lightweight Manfrotto," or there's lot's of other one's out there. You need a beefy cinema tripod. There's no joke here. Now, battery-wise. It's great there there's Anton Bauer batteries. - Totally. - But for me, on the backside here with these ports, a lot of batteries are a bit bigger. We ran into some problems with some of the batteries were actually obscuring…

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