Ursa Mini Pro 12k!!! The camera filmmaking deserves? But not the one it needs right now? 

I agree with the increase in dynamic range, but what we have to understand, is that full frame, IBIS, and AF is for photography. This camera isn't for hybrid shooters. In the cinema world, those things are unreliable when left to the camera to make the choice of how to stabilize and focus. For full frame, the cinema standard has been super 35. ARRI, RED, BM, they have super 35 or large format (beyond full frame) sensors. 12K opens up so many options in the VFX, CGI, and nature/wildlife worlds. Even in feature and commercial work, this camera is going to do well. BM has covered their bases with this move. From the pocket cameras to the Ursas, there's something for everyone that won't break the bank, regardless of your market.

Great overview! I think its super exciting to see how braw is evolving and how good performance is and how efficient it's getting. The 12k is certainly tempting especially with the new sensor tech and being able to shoot 8k and 4k with no cropping. The biggest thing holding us back is the form factor, it certainly isn't bad but if it were a more modular form factor like the DSMC2 cameras or Mavo Edge we would buy it in a heart beat. We shoot shoot everything from handheld, jib, gimbal, ect. and having a modular camera system makes life so much easier. Having a monitor that can be separated from the camera completely is so nice (especially when its rigged out on a gimbal). If they could even just shorten up the URSA mini a bit so it wasnt so long and create a separate monitor system (like DSMC2 or Kinefinity) that can be used with the Blackmagic OS to control the camera that would sell us. We use the blackmagic 4k and 6k in conjunction with our Helium DSCM2 and we honestly prefer Blackmagic's OS, its so much more fluid and straight forward and we love using braw and how well it integrates with Resolve. With as much as we've come to love Blackmagic our biggest issue always comes back to the ergonomics.

When you go at 12k on a S35 sensor size, then your actual focus range is super tiny and for the 12k, it only usable for high f-stop. Focus is only an illusion, and the more you zoom in, the more you lose that illusion. I don't have (or interested) in the exact math behind it, but it can be represented as a parabola, where the very bottom of it where it hit 0 is where you have a perfect focus ! But that would be infinity small and unusable. But lucky for us, we just need to perceived it as in focus, so we can create a horizontal line and raise it up to the point where we can see the image is in focus in 4k for example ! But if you shoot in 12k using the same sensor size, you have to lower that horizontal, and you lose a lot of that usable critical focus point. I haven't seen much people talk about this, and I know this exist, but I'm not sure if it possible to tweak that with different optic to make that bottom of the "parabola" flatter but keeping similar depth of field... Or maybe going medium or large format actually what needed to flatten this bottom curve. But for me, and I think for the industry, 12k is unusable EXCEPT for special situation where you want everything in focus, so you make sure that bottom of the parabola is flat by changing the f-stop and distance of the subject. So for special effect it might be great, and filming a boat far away... But I'm not sure how usable it really is ! I know even at 6k I struggle with the level of precision required in my focus ! What I think is needed is eye detection where it show a zoom in of the eyes in a shot so we can more easily focus on them ! Have a second camera output for that purpose only if need be !

The camera is for those who work in a traditional manner with film projects... no auto anything! If you can handle these elements in production, you can use this 12K camera!

As an independent filmmaker, this camera could do well for my next hour and a half crime drama feature. Having to film in 14 days has many complications, one of them being setups. With this camera I can shoot 8k wide, and in post do my medium and close up shots, therefore saving time.

Fair points. The only think that matters to me is the new sensor. Need to see that in action

You can shoot 4k 6k and 8k if you don't like 12k

I just want an URSA Mini G2 with more dynamic range and a C100 Mark 2 with 4K RAW.

I'll be getting the c300! I can't trust the build quality of the Ursa's especially when its 19k AUD, if you look at the hair of the people in the example footage from the bm12k you can still see IR pollution.

When they say 14 stops I think This thing is closer to 16 but only 14 usable stops therefore showing they aren’t ashamed at being honest

It's not a DSLR stop saying it's not full-frame. cinema super 35mm is full frame