On the top panel, situated next to the red record button, there’s a camera icon button, which you use to capture a still. While the camera only houses an eight-megapixel sensor, and doesn’t have the typical photo features found on a mirrorless/DSLR-turned-film camera, we can get stills if necessary, and the 4K resolution provides more than enough for quick reference snaps. The Pocket 4K has been rolling into new users’ hands over the last few weeks, and more filmmakers are looking to get the most out of the camera.

As in still photography, a lot of it is capturing unexpected moments.

‘She could run scenes, without being reminded by the sound of a shutter every four seconds that I was taking a picture. Using the RED ONE, a video camera that captures images at four times the resolution of high-definition, photographer-director Greg Williams (see below) recorded ten minutes of loosely scripted footage with Fox. It’s interesting to read the take on the experience of the shoot, as a decade later, it reads like a lost relic:įor the first time in Esquire‘s history (and, we imagine, magazine history in general), a cover image was shot as a video. Back in 2009, two years after the release of the RED ONE, the camera captured a cover photo of Megan Fox for Esquire magazine. And now, here we are taking a pocket camera that has been made for cinema, and looking at how to use it to capture stills (cue Inception music). While the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K won’t replace your go-to still camera, it can capture stills to make referencing and scouting much easier.Įver since the T2i, I’ve been writing tips and producing video tutorials on how to take a camera primarily made for capturing stills and using it to create the “cinematic” look in its video mode.

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