By site editor Dan Chung:
The diminutive Blackmagic Pocket Cinema camera has finally received the promised firmware upgrade to enable RAW shooting. The camera can now record lossless 12bit Cinema DNG to the its SD memory card in 1080P HD. To be able to do this will require a super fast SD card – Blackmagic’s Kristian Lam is recommending the Sandisk Extreme Pro 64GB card for RAW shooting.
Kristian also mentions that “The lossless CinemaDNG RAW will work in DaVinci Resolve and applications from Adobe like Photoshop and Lightroom. However, the Preview and Quick Look feature in OS X is not compatible and you will not see a proper image. This has been reported to Apple. Hopefully, they will have an update that will address this.”
In order to install the update users need the latest version 1.5 of Blackmagic’s Camera Utility from here.
With the full potential of the Pocket finally released it will be interesting to see just how good the RAW images from the camera will be.
