The Blackmagic URSA Cine 17K 65 digital film camera has been added to the Netflix Approved Camera List. I personally don’t see what the camera has to do with anything – how can you tell what camera is used to shoot something you see in the cinema or on TV for starters.
But I assume there is some credo in getting the Stamp of Approval.
To quote Blackmagic’s Press Release…
“Officially titled “Cameras and Image Capture: Requirements and Best Practices,” the list highlights the capture requirements necessary to be qualified as an approved camera by the streamer, including dynamic range, resolution, codec, workflow compatibility and more. Netflix requires 90 percent of a program’s final total runtime to be captured on approved cameras. The list already includes the Blackmagic URSA Cine 12K LF, Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K OLPF and URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2 amongst its approved systems.
Blackmagic URSA Cine 17K 65 is a digital film camera that lets customers shoot 65mm open gate 8K at up to 100fps, or 17K at up to 60fps with 16 stops of dynamic range! It introduces a new, extremely large format 65mm RGBW 51 x 24mm image sensor for a truly cinematic large format look. The sensor is designed for incredible quality images at all resolutions from 4K to a massive 17K! The unique RGBW architecture provides equal amounts of red, green, and blue pixels for incredible color super sampling.
The Blackmagic URSA Cine platform also introduces new digital film technologies combined with total integration into the post production workflow. That means it’s the first digital film camera platform with fast high capability storage built in, plus high-speed networking for on set media sync. You can also swap between PL, LPL and EF lens mounts. There’s even WiFi with SRT streaming for remote client viewing. Plus, the industry standard Lemo and Fischer connections make it perfect for high end cinema production.”
So now you know.