Amphibico have announced the Pocket Buddy an underwater housing for the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera.
Given this camera’s large Super 16 size sensor and its super wide dynamic range of 13 stops it will truly create a cinematic film look to your underwater imaging. This incredibly compact, highly modular camera uses an active Micro Four Thirds lens mount which allows use of commonly available and an excellent range of low cost Micro Four Thirds lenses from Olympus, Panasonic and Sigma. With full electronic control of the lens, you can simply point and set your Iris (aperture) and focus on the fly. Its ability to record high quality ProRes 422(HQ) and CinemaDNG RAW file formats in full HD 1920 x 1080 make’s it just to perfection.
The housing, is built with the same high quality solid aluminium construction as our previous pro line of housings, no compromise was taken to create the New Pocket Buddy line from Amphibico. Keeping in mind total ergonomics and underwater balance, its super compact design system makes the unit extremely user friendly underwater. Our engineers worked very diligently on its design, keeping in mind size, weight, balance allowing easy and complete access to all key camcorder functions, it will give users the ability to create the best possible underwater imaging.
Please see Amphibico for more details about their Pocket Buddy Underwater Housing For The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera: