Today we received a Seagate Goflex Thunderbolt adapter.
Seagate Thunderbolt Sata Adapter
This allows us to slap an SSD from the Blackmagic Cinema Camera straight into our iMac. Which is a lot quicker than what we had previously been doing, which was cutting the power, ripping open Laura’s computer, connecting the drive internally, putting everything back, and turning the power back on.
The Goflex system is supposed to use Seagate’s own drives, but just so happens to work with the majority of other 2.5 inch solid state drives. I superglued some rubber onto the surface of the dock as our drives are slightly too thin for it and could potentially bend the connection pins over time.
Hence, we have uploaded some footage from today. It’s nothing out of the ordinary. Some pet footage and some city shots. We’ve thrown in a shot with massive dynamic range, just to show how well this camera copes with large amounts of contrast. We managed to get almost the whole DR covered in one frame, but that’s pretty tough to do on such a wide lens with all the flare. The next week will be great fun, being able to look back on the footage through resolve is really essential to understand how this camera reacts to light. I’m still getting my head round how I want to expose it. Thinking we’re going to need some bigger lights…
Blackmagic Cinema Camera Scotland test footage
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