Blackmagic Refines URSA 12K Sensor With the Help of Firmware Update
Blackmagic Refines URSA 12K Sensor With the Help of Firmware Update

Blackmagic Improves URSA 12K Sensor With the Help of Firmware Update

2021-12-21
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Blackmagic Design announces the Camera 7.7 update for the URSA Mini Pro 12K. The update enhances the 12K sensor performance, improves color balance and shadow details, elevates the skin tone’s accuracy, and reduces artifacts. This is one of the first updates that focus so much on the overall image quality. Very interesting…

Blackmagic URSA 12K Review + Stunning Footage
Blackmagic URSA 12K Review + Stunning Footage

Blackmagic Camera 7.7

Today Blackmagic Design has announced the Camera 7.7 update. As stated by Blackmagic: “The 7,7 update further enhances sensor performance for Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K. This update refines the sensor’s unique technology with fine adjustments to the demosaic algorithm, leading to a more neutral color balance and enhanced sharpness of shadow details for better overall image quality”.

The URSA 12K on Car Rig
The URSA 12K on Car Rig

A firmware update that focuses on imagery improvement

According to Blackmagic, the Camera 7.7 update for URSA Mini Pro 12K optimizes the 12K sensor by further improving the clarity of fine detail in shadow regions. It also provides a more neutral color balance with a more accurate starting point for better skin tones, while still retaining the natural soft highlight roll off of film which customers enjoy from URSA Mini Pro 12K. In addition, the incidence of moire has been reduced when capturing ultra-high resolution scenes with very high-frequency fabrics or architectural textures.  These are the key features of the 7.7 update that are related to Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K:

  • Improved color balance.
  • Improved demosaic for better shadow detail MTF.
  • Improved demosaic to reduce moire effects on fine patterns.
  • USB-C connection improvements.

Click here to download the update from the Blackmagic Support page. 

The URSA Mini Pro 12K
The URSA Mini Pro 12K

12K BRAW: Pros and cons

A few days ago we wrote an article that summarizes a very businesslike review of the URSA 12K. Make sure to read it: Blackmagic URSA 12K Review + Stunning Footage. The review shows beautiful imagery and proves that the 12K BRAW are pretty editable files as well. It will interesting to explore and compare the footage after updating the Camera 7.7 update, and to reveal how the update actually affects and contributes to the overall image quality of the URSA 12K.

Product List

Here’re the products mentioned in the article, and the links to purchase them from authorized dealers. 

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  1. So, basically it’s not a sensor lossless camera then, they change the sensor image.

    Why not just change the sensor to the random pattern one?

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