First customer URSA Mini 4K footage!

History repeats itself - amateur filmmaker, Jszfilms - who posted the first narrative footage shot with the BMPCC two years ago - has now posted a short satirical piece shot with the $2995 Blackmagic URSA Mini 4K:





As far as I can tell, this is the first footage from a consumer who actually bought the camera and doesn't have a special relationship with either Blackmagic Design or a dealer.

This is not a big budget movie with lots of locations - it's something J put together in one day to show his friend (who owns the camera) how to use it. And, clearly, not all of the shots are from the Mini.

That said, the fact that the camera is starting to appear in the hands of consumers is very good news for everyone who has been waiting since April for this camera!

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4K Canon EOS One - the Panasonic FZ1000 killer?

Looks like Canon is finally about to enter the consumer 4K video market.  Chinese tech site Evolife is reporting that "surprise guest" Jackie Chan joined Canon China Chairman Hideki Ozawa onstage at the Canon Spring Conference in Shanghai yesterday to introduce a new 4K concept camera - the Canon EOS One.




Canon hasn't released the specs yet, but you can see from the photos above that the camera has an external LCD viewfinder and a  fixed 10x 8.9-89mm f2.8-5.6 zoom lens - which means it probably has a 1" sensor.   This puts it squarely in competition with Panasonic's hot-selling 4K FZ1000, which has had the 4K superzoom market all to itself - until now.

This is very good news for Canon shooters, who have been waiting since the introduction of sub-$1000 4K cameras from Panasonic, Sony and Samsung last year for Canon to introduce an affordable 4K video camera.

If Canon includes a decent codec, a headphone jack and more than 30 minutes of recording time, the EOS One becomes a very interesting video camera and serious competition for the FZ1000 (depending on price, of course).

Hopefully, we'll get more details at NAB - but if this is a sign of things to come from Canon, it could mean a great show for them in Vegas this year.

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(all photos above courtesy Evolife.cn and Weibo user Conga)