Digital Film for Live Production
Capture a digital film look for your feature or live productions using the URSA Cine 12K LF 100G Camera from Blackmagic Design. This body-only model sports a cinematic 12K full-frame 36 x 24mm sensor with an advertised 16 stops of dynamic range and Blackmagic RAW capture up to 12K 3:2 open gate. It features a blazingly fast 100GbE port that supports live ST-2110 video standards, Wi-Fi and SRT live streaming, built-in ND filters, and high-speed networking for cloud storage and M.2 SSD media. This camera body comes with a locking EF mount and a Media Module CF – all other accessories are optional.
Cinematic Large-Format Sensor
The URSA Cine 12K LF 100G camera’s large-format sensor provides impressively flexible options for aspect ratios, lenses, and delivery formats, enabling you to create distinctive content in the highest quality. The full sensor area of the 12K LF produces a stunning 3:2 open-gate image and enables you to shoot anamorphic and deliver in a range of aspect ratios with 1.3, 1.5, 1.6, 1.66, 1.8, and 2x de-squeeze factors. You can also use the URSA Cine 12K LF 100G to capture 4K, 8K, or 12K while using the entire sensor without cropping, retaining the full field of view of your lenses. The 12K LF models even have 9K Super 35 modes for full compatibility with classic cinema lenses.
High-End Body Design
The URSA Cine 12K LF 100G is designed to meet the demands of any high-end production. The evenly weighted camera body is built with a robust magnesium alloy chassis and lightweight carbon fiber polycarbonate composite skin to help you move quickly on set. There’s a 5″ fold-out touchscreen for reviewing shots and accessing camera settings, plus a dedicated assist station with a 5″ LCD and full camera controls. Standard LEMO and Fischer connectors let you control the camera remotely while providing power for lens motors and other accessories. You also get 12G-SDI out, 100G Ethernet, USB-C, XLR audio, and soft-touch backlit buttons.
Optional B4 Broadcast Lens Mount
Add a separately available Blackmagic Design B4 lens mount to access both the speed of fast broadcast servo zoom lenses and higher frame rates. The 4.6K B4 crop 16:9 format supports frame rates up to 240 fps, making it ideal for dynamic sports coverage.
Interchangeable Lens Mounts
Different projects require different lenses, which is why the URSA Cine 12K LF 100G features an interchangeable lens mount. This model includes a locking EF mount that you can quickly switch out for a separately available B4, ARRI PL, or ARRI LPL mount. This means you can work with PL or LPL cinema lenses or autofocus EF photographic lenses, making the URSA Cine 12K LF 100G compatible with a wide range of professional lenses. Use modern high-speed lenses for sharp, precise images on one shoot, and then shoot a period drama with vintage photographic lenses next. Each mount has contact pins to read lens metadata for monitoring and for use in post-production.
Multiple Formats
The large-format sensor in URSA Cine 12K LF 100G provides the ultimate in flexibility for aspect ratios, lenses, and delivery formats. The full-frame sensor area gives you a stunning 3:2 open gate image, which lets you reframe your shots in post-production. Or you can use the large sensor area to shoot anamorphic and deliver in a range of aspect ratios with 1.3, 1.5, 1.6, 1.66, 1.8, and 2x de-squeeze factors. Plus, you can shoot in 4K, 8K, or 12K using the entire sensor without cropping, retaining the full field of view of your lenses. There are even 9K Super 35 4-perf, 3-perf, and 2-perf modes for full compatibility with classic cinema lenses. All this lets you create distinctive content in the highest quality.
Monitoring and Camera Control
The URSA Cine 12K LF 100G lets crews work faster on set with multiple monitoring options. The fold-out monitor has a large 5″ HDR touchscreen on one side and an external color status LCD on the other. You can even rotate the screen and fold it back into the camera. On the right side of the camera, there’s a dedicated focus puller’s mode and an assistant’s station with a second 5″ HDR touchscreen that allows the crew to work around the camera without needing external monitors. Plus, with a 1500 cd/m² display and removable sunshade, it’s always visible, even in bright sunlight. On-screen overlays show status and record parameters, histogram, frame guides, and more.
Blackmagic RAW Capture
Blackmagic RAW is a revolutionary format designed to capture and preserve the quality of the sensor data from your camera. Blackmagic RAW files store camera metadata, lens data, white balance, digital slate information, and custom LUTs to ensure consistency of image on set and through post-production. Constant quality options lock the quality level, allowing compression to adapt, matching the detail of the scene. Constant bit rate encoding options are designed to give you the best possible images with predictable and consistent file sizes. The URSA Cine 12K LF 100G records to the optional Blackmagic Media Module 8TB, allowing you to capture over four hours of Blackmagic RAW in 12K or a massive 20 hours in 4K.
Industry-Standard Connections
The wide range of industry-standard connections on URSA Cine 12K LF 100G makes it perfect for high-end cinema production. The 7-pin LEMO and 3-pin Fischer connectors at the front provide record start/stop and 24V power, and so are ideal for onboard accessories such as focus motors. Camera power is provided by a standard 24V 8-pin LEMO connection, plus there’s an additional 2-pin LEMO 12V connection at the rear for lower voltage accessories. All this means you can power accessories straight from the camera without messy external cabling. There are also two independent 12G-SDI outputs for monitoring on two different monitors with different overlays, plus 100G Ethernet for Blackmagic Cloud media syncing.
Built-In Optical Low-Pass Filter
The high frequencies of synthetic materials like fabrics or the LED matrix in video walls can cause problems for ultrasharp modern lenses and high-resolution sensors, creating interference patterns. Using an optical low-pass filter minimizes that interference, which results in a reduction of moire and aliasing. The URSA Cine 12K LF 100G includes a high-performance, optical low-pass filter that is precisely matched to the sensor. The OLPF also incorporates updated IR filtering that improves far red color response, which, when combined with Blackmagic RAW processing for the URSA Cine, preserves color and critical image detail for new levels of image fidelity.
Built-In Color-Balanced ND Filters
The URSA Cine 12K LF 100G features high-quality ND filters that let you quickly reduce the amount of light entering the camera. Designed to match the colorimetry and color science of the camera, the 2-, 4-, and 6-stop filters provide you with additional latitude even under harsh lighting. The IR filters have been designed to filter both optical wavelengths and IR wavelengths evenly to eliminate IR contamination of the images, from which many ND filters can suffer. URSA Cine ND filters are true optical filters with a precision mechanism that quickly moves them into place when the ND filter dial is turned. Filter settings can even be displayed as either an ND number, stop reduction, or fraction on the LCD.
High-Performance Recording Media
The URSA Cine camera line has ultrafast, high-capability Cloud Store technology built in, enabling you to use separately available, rugged Blackmagic Media Modules with 8 or 16TB of storage. It’s like a Cloud Store Mini built into your camera with high-speed storage enabling you to record at the highest resolutions and frame rates for hours and access files directly over high-speed 100G Ethernet. These optional M.2 SSD 8TB or 16TB modules can be easily removed from the camera and loaded into a Blackmagic Media Dock for transferring media to a network or Blackmagic Cloud for instant global collaboration. You can also record using your existing stock of CFexpress media and the included Blackmagic Media Module CF with dual CFexpress slots.
High-Resolution, High Frame Rate Capture
The URSA Cine 12K LF 100G has the ability to shoot in 4K, 8K, Super 35 9K, and incredibly detailed 17K, offering multiple cameras in one body. Use it to capture up to 100 fps in 12K 12,288 x 6480 17:9 or 120 fps in 12K 2.4:1 widescreen. Higher frame rate capabilities include 144 fps at 8192 x 5360, 180 fps at 8192 x 3408, and even 8K 2.4:1 widescreen at an impressive 224 fps at 8192 x 3408. Blackmagic Design combines these flexible frame rate and resolution options with incredible motion rendering and smoother edges in 8K and 4K, even at lower frame rates. This 100G Ethernet model offers even higher frame rates when using a B4 lens mount and outputting SMPTE-2110 live video.
Generation 6 Color Science
Blackmagic Generation 6 Color Science features multiple imaging improvements, including extremely accurate color reproduction for natural and pleasing skin tones. It offers 3D LUTs for film, extended video, and video gamuts, enabling you to customize your processing pipeline output by loading your own LUTs. These LUTs are applied after the color corrector, so any corrections are on top of the full film gamut. Choose different color spaces using preloaded LUTs, including Rec. 709, 2020, and PQ, and apply customized gamut compression. The URSA Cine line now incorporates two 3D LUT processors for discrete outputs and an extra 3D LUT solely for the SMPTE-2110 output.
Live Sync to DaVinci Resolve
URSA Cine 12K LF 100G supports creating a small H.264 proxy file in addition to the camera’s original media when recording. This means the small proxy file can be uploaded to Blackmagic Cloud in seconds, so your media is available back at the studio in real time. The ability to transfer media directly into the DaVinci Resolve media bin as editors are working is revolutionary and has never before been possible. Any editor working anywhere in the world will get the shots. If you have multiple cameras, then the new multisource feature in DaVinci Resolve’s Cut page will show each camera angle in a multiview. Blackmagic Cloud is a revolution in global post-production workflows.
Live Stream Directly to Your Client
Now you can live stream from film sets. The URSA Cine 12K LF 100G features a built-in hardware streaming engine that supports RTMP and SRT streaming to major platforms or directly to clients. Simply connect to the internet via Ethernet, high-speed Wi-Fi, or even connect a 4G or 5G phone for mobile data. As the streaming is built into the camera, you can see the stream status and data rate in the viewfinder and the LCD. If you want to create a wireless link back to the video village or the studio, then you can stream to a Blackmagic ATEM Streaming Bridge, which is an H.264 decoder that converts the video stream back to video. Now everyone can keep an eye on the live shoot.
Connect to Mobile Data, High-Speed Wi-Fi, or Ethernet
When live streaming or uploading to Blackmagic Cloud, you can connect and use an Apple or Android phone to get a connection to the internet via mobile data. Simply connect the phone to the USB-C port, and URSA Cine will configure for mobile data. Plus, it works with the latest high-speed 5G phones, as well as 4G. You can also connect via high-speed Wi-Fi or wired Ethernet using the 10G Ethernet port. With live streaming built into the camera, you get the solution you need for clients and post-production to monitor shoots from anywhere in the world. That’s a truly global post-production solution that works with Blackmagic Cloud to create amazing teams of creative people all working together.
High-Resolution Viewfinder
The URSA Cine 12K LF 100G supports the optional Blackmagic URSA Cine EVF to make outdoor and handheld shooting accurate and easy. You get an integrated high-quality 1920 x 1080 color OLED display with a built-in proximity sensor and a 4-element glass diopter for incredible accuracy with a wide focus adjustment. A built-in digital focus chart ensures you get the perfect viewfinder focus setup. You can also view critical status information, such as frame guides. The URSA Cine EVF is easy to connect as it simply mounts to the included viewfinder bracket and connects to the camera using a single USB-C cable. The viewfinder can be positioned in multiple ways and comes with two different types of eyecups.
Industry-Standard Batteries and Power
The URSA Cine 12K LF 100G incorporates an 8-pin LEMO power connector at the back of the camera that works with 24V and 12V power supplies. That means it’s easy to use the camera with existing power supplies, batteries, and accessories. The front of the camera includes additional LEMO and Fischer connectors for powering lens motors and other accessories. Power the URSA Cine 12K LF 100G using a separately available power supply or Gold, V-, or B-mount battery plate, so you can use a wide range of high-voltage batteries from manufacturers such as IDX, Blueshape, Core SWX, BEBOB, and more.
Powered by Blackmagic OS
With advanced Blackmagic OS, you get an intuitive and user-friendly camera operating system based on the latest technology. Blackmagic OS is a true modern operating system where all camera features run independently for smoother control, plus the camera powers on virtually instantly. The URSA Cine 12K LF 100G features the same controls and menus as other Blackmagic Design cameras, so you can move between cameras on set easily. The interface uses simple tap and swipe gestures to adjust settings, add metadata, and view recording status. You also get full control over advanced camera features, such as on-screen focus and exposure tools, 3D LUTs, HDR, metadata entry, timecode, Blackmagic RAW settings, and more.
Digital Slate for Fast Metadata Entry
The URSA Cine12K LF 100G features a digital slate, so you can quickly add metadata to any shot. Simply swipe left or right on the built-in touchscreen to bring up the digital slate. If you start and stop recording, the slate can automatically advance the take numbers, so you don’t have to enter them manually for each shot. You can also set your reel numbers to advance automatically each time you format a card. Lens metadata is automatically populated, or it can be entered manually, along with production-specific information, technical information, and more. All of the metadata is saved with the files for use when editing and color correcting in post.
Wireless Bluetooth Camera Control
If you’re positioning the camera on the end of a jib or gimbal, you can get full control via Bluetooth from up to 30′ away. You can download the Blackmagic Camera Control app for your iPad or use third-party apps such as Bluetooth+ or tRigger on your iOS and Android devices. There’s even a free developer SDK with sample code available from the Blackmagic Design developer website, so you can create your own remote camera control and digital slate solutions. Imagine building an app that can jam sync timecode and trigger all cameras to record simultaneously.
Support in 13 Popular Languages
The URSA Cine 12K LF 100G is designed to be used worldwide and supports 13 different languages. When setting up your camera, you can choose to work in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. It’s easy to switch to another language, so you can share your camera with other crew when traveling to locations worldwide. When you switch languages, all on-screen overlays, setup menus, and monitoring information will be displayed in the selected language.
Includes DaVinci Resolve Studio
The URSA Cine 12K LF 100G includes a full version of DaVinci Resolve Studio. You get the world’s most advanced solution that combines professional editing, color correction, audio post, and visual effects, all in one software tool. DaVinci Resolve is used to finish more Hollywood feature films than any other solution, so you’ll get the best possible post-production tools to edit native video from your camera and retain every bit of quality. Whether you’re working on major Hollywood feature films, episodic television, music videos, commercials, or even the latest YouTube shoot, DaVinci Resolve Studio gives you a completely lossless workflow for native editing, color correction, effects, audio, and delivery.
