Blackmagic Design has released its Blackmagic Camera 9.1.2 Update. This release is for Blackmagic URSA Cine 12K LF and it improves Blackmagic Cloud functionality, as well as providing better playback performance and additional REST API support. There is also now support for the Blackmagic PYXIS Monitor.
What’s new in Blackmagic Camera 9.1.2
Blackmagic URSA Cine 12K LF
- Adds support for Blackmagic PYXIS Monitor.
- Adds Camera Control REST API commands.
- Adds support for display port monitors.
- Improved Blackmagic Cloud functionality.
- Improved high voltage battery behavior.
- Improved playback performance.
- Improved 1st AC focus markers.
- Improved button lock behaviors.
- Improved updating via ethernet.
- Improved button behaviors.
- Improved documentation.
- Improved lens support.
- Fixed brief startup glitch.
This software update for URSA Cine 12K LF also adds additional REST API commands for remote camera control, improved behavior for focus markers on the 1st AC screen, better high voltage battery behavior, enhanced playback performance, improved button lock behaviors, and better lens support.
There is also now a 12K LF dynamic range chart in the manual, improved updating via Ethernet, and also fixes for a brief display glitch on startup.
The table above shows the distribution of dynamic range above and below mid gray in the 12K and 9K recording formats. When shooting in 8K and 4K formats on URSA Cine 12K LF the image sensor runs in a different way and uses sensor hardware scaling allowing you to capture in 8K or 4K without cropping down or changing your field of view at all. This gives you slightly smaller file sizes and also runs the sensor twice as fast. The following table shows the distribution when shooting in any of the 8K or 4K recording formats.
As you can see in the second table, when shooting in the 8K and 4K formats on URSA Cine 12K LF the dynamic range distribution is effectively shifted by one stop for each given ISO setting compared to the 12K and 9K formats. While there is also a very small decrease in the total stops of dynamic range there is more information in the shadows but 1 stop less highlight headroom.
