I've had the USB port on my 4K break twice, and the IR filter in front of the sensor (there is one, its just not great) get melt damage from using focal reducers. Blackmagic cameras have many great points, but they are absolutely build as cheaply as possible.
I bought the BMPCC4k on release on a credit card. It was my first ever BIG purchase at the time as a young adult. I treated that camera like it was my child. On a shoot, I plugged my SSD drive into the USBC port and it....fell into the camera and detached from the board completely. NEVER in my entire life, on any device, whether it's a cheap thing from china, has this happened. This was a £1.3k device and I was always super gentle with it. I contacted Blackmagic and they would charge me £300-£600 to fix. I thought this was unnacaptable and was clearly poor build quality. I know it's no RED or Arri but even on £10 devices, you expect the charging port not to fall off. The community scolded me for not having a cage and using the locking pins etc. but that's beside the point. I took it to a few shops who were unable to solder it back on for whatever reason. Put me off BM and moved to Panasonic. I love their image and BRAW but that just left a bad taste in my mouth and I don't want to support a company who doesn't support their users.
@@2kstyles that’s completely fair my dude. I hope they never happens to me. LUMIX is great bro. I already miss the s5ii for its photography capabilities.
I've had the first generation BMCC4K since 2016 and it still functions. The second BMC I have is the BMPC6K and I carried it around in my son's stroller shooting footage for a documentary and it held up. I think you're good 😊
I've had the USB port on my 4K break twice, and the IR filter in front of the sensor (there is one, its just not great) get melt damage from using focal reducers. Blackmagic cameras have many great points, but they are absolutely build as cheaply as possible.
Dang dog it really is that way
I bought the BMPCC4k on release on a credit card. It was my first ever BIG purchase at the time as a young adult. I treated that camera like it was my child.
On a shoot, I plugged my SSD drive into the USBC port and it....fell into the camera and detached from the board completely.
NEVER in my entire life, on any device, whether it's a cheap thing from china, has this happened. This was a £1.3k device and I was always super gentle with it. I contacted Blackmagic and they would charge me £300-£600 to fix. I thought this was unnacaptable and was clearly poor build quality. I know it's no RED or Arri but even on £10 devices, you expect the charging port not to fall off.
The community scolded me for not having a cage and using the locking pins etc. but that's beside the point. I took it to a few shops who were unable to solder it back on for whatever reason.
Put me off BM and moved to Panasonic. I love their image and BRAW but that just left a bad taste in my mouth and I don't want to support a company who doesn't support their users.
@@2kstyles that’s completely fair my dude. I hope they never happens to me. LUMIX is great bro. I already miss the s5ii for its photography capabilities.
I think the camera's ok 👍 if it was really damaged I think it'd be pretty clear/more apparent. Film on
what mic are you using?
Send it to blackmagic
I've had the first generation BMCC4K since 2016 and it still functions. The second BMC I have is the BMPC6K and I carried it around in my son's stroller shooting footage for a documentary and it held up. I think you're good 😊