
It is part of the Cinema Camera family of digital movie cameras and shoots 2.5K video in raw, Apple ProRes, CinemaDNG and Avid DNxHD formats. We own enough EF mount glass that we're compelled to consider purchasing the camera, but the ability to use a PL adapter with this camera would be wonderful and that is something that you can do with the BMPCC 4K that you can't do here.The Blackmagic Cinema Camera (often simply the Cinema Camera or BMCC) is a digital movie camera developed and manufactured by Blackmagic Design and released on September 4, 2012. Then again, if they did EOS-R with something like the internal ND adapter, they could put internal NDs into the mix, which would be very nice. This is a $2495 camera after all (if we mention that so much it's just we're so amazed that a 6K RAW $2495 camera is here) and EF glass probably matched it in quality and availability of lenses. Right now there just isn't a robust library of lenses for L, Z, or ER mounts, and it will be a long time, if ever, until those formats catch up in volume to EF. For 99% of users, they will be happy with an EF mount, especially considering the stellar combination of features the camera otherwise puts out. Of course, the counter-argument is that going for a more modern, shallower mount is worrying too much about the future and not enough about the present. Especially since it seems like RED is going to go for the EOS R mount on their hinted Komodo unit. You could use an "open" mount instead of the "Canon" mount. You could use an L to LP adapter for PL lenses. However, if Blackmagic had gone with something like the "L" mount, and then maybe even included an L to EF adapter in the first year's orders, there would still have been support for all of those EF lenses and the camera would feel a bit more future proof. With decades of history, you can buy beautiful EF mount lenses from a variety of manufacturers that will fit your needs.

There are more lenses in EF mount in the world than probably any other interchangeable lens mount.

What does exist for EF is the worlds largest selection of lenses. The EF mount really doesn't adapt to anything much at all since there are very few lenses that have a flange focal distance that is so much larger than 44mm that there is room to fit an adapter in between.


A number of manufacturers made adapters for MFT to PL, EF, L, or whatever weird old lens your heart desires. In fact, Metabones just made a special speed booster adapter for the BMPCC 4K that is particularly enticing. With the BMPCC 4K, which uses MFT and its 19.25mm mount, you can adapt it to almost anything you want for cinema, especially PL.
