Adorama has their Hands on the Pocket Cinema Camera!

According to this August 15th blog post from Adorama, they have their first camera in - which gives hope to all of us who pre-ordered our Pocket Cinema Cameras there.

In the meantime, the box cutter and my Olympus 11-22mm lens, Panasonic MA1 adapter, Wooden Camera hot shoe, Rainbowimaging pistol grip with trigger, and 64GB ADATA SDXC card all wait patiently by the door, ready to get the box open and shoot some ProRes as soon as the camera arrives!

Just Bought a Fast SDXC Card for my Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

Since the cameras seem to be really shipping (!), it is time to buy a memory card.  After all these months of waiting, it would be pretty frustrating to have the camera waiting on my doorstep when I get back from Spaceport America next week - with no memory card to put in it.

Looking at this list of fast cards on blackmagicuser.net, I couldn't bring myself to spring for a 95MB/s $133 Sandisk Extreme Pro 64GB - so I bought an ADATA 64GB (95MB/s read, 45MB/s write) for $56 (on sale at Amazon) instead.  ADATA, an established DRAM and NAND flash memory manufacturer from Taiwan, just entered the high speed SD card market a few months ago, so their prices are a little lower than Sandisk's.  On sale, this card is a very good deal.

At 45MB/s write, the ADATA will be good enough for ProRes, but won't cut it for CinemaDNG RAW. When Blackmagic issues the RAW firmware update, I'll buy a faster card, but until then, this will do.

Great GH3 review over at Soundimageplus

I haven't unboxed my GH3 yet (too busy - don't ask), so I'm living vicariously through the first GH3 still shots and reviews from bloggers such as David over at soundimageplus and emm at cheesycam.  My favorite camera description of all time has to be David's intro to Part 1 of his GH3 review and user experience. Hilarious.

In the meantime, here is my boxed GH3, still in its Adorama shipping parcel - with an unopened Kingston 128GB SDXC card ($85 from Amazon as of today) sitting on top of it.  And the sun is out today too. I can almost hear it calling: "open me, open me now..."