Blackmagic Design has announced the Blackmagic Camera 1.3 update. This upgrade includes some cool stuff like audio monitoring, rack focus controls, 48mm lens support, and more.
The Blackmagic Camera app
For those who are not familiar with the new app by Blackmagic (announced together with full-frame Cinema Camera 6K), here’s the description by Apple: “The Blackmagic Camera unlocks the power of your iPhone by adding digital film camera controls and operating systems. Now you can create the same cinematic ‘look’ as Hollywood feature films. You get the same intuitive and user-friendly interface as Blackmagic Design’s award-winning cameras. So it’s just like using a professional digital film camera. This means you can adjust settings such as frame rate, shutter angle, white balance, and ISO all in a single tap. Or record directly to Blackmagic Cloud in industry-standard 10-bit Apple ProRes files up to 4K. Recording to Blackmagic Cloud Storage lets you collaborate on DaVinci Resolve projects with editors anywhere in the world, all at the same time”. Note that the Blackmagic Camera is only for iPhones. There’s no support/compatibility for Android. The new features of the latest 1.3 version are below.
Blackmagic Camera 1.3
The latest version has been announced (1.3). Release notes are below:
- Support for audio monitoring on connected earphones.
- Support for rack focus controls in the camera.
- Support for 48mm lens on iPhone 14 Pro and 15 Pro.
- Smoother animations when switching between landscape and portrait.
- Faster project listing in the media tab.
- Reduced latency for HDMI video feeds.
- Name, reel, scene and take now display over HDMI during recording. • General performance and stability improvements.
Made for professional use
The Blackmagic Camera app is the best camera app in the App Store. This app smashed Filmic Pro. Moreover, this app has been utilized on high-end projects and experiments (for great use-case, explore Strada experiments). Blackmagic continues to upgrade and improve the app in an impressive R&D tempo, and you can download it for FREE from the App Store (again — no Android support, for now).
