

It is what’s inside the deceptively familiar camera body that stands out from the crowd. The new spot for the USB-C port is a detail showing us that under the hood of the URSA Mini Pro 12K is a wholly different camera designed by Blackmagic.

The same, well, everything except the location for the USB-C port. In fact, picking up the URSA Mini Pro 12K feels the same as picking up the URSA Mini Pro G2 4.6K. The different cameras share the same LCD screen, the same Cfast 2.0, and SD Card slots. Simple in the fact that externally the Blackmagic Design URSA Mini Pro 12K is essentially the same camera as the URSA Mini Pro G1 and G2 4.6K cameras. In many ways, this is both the simplest review of a camera I’ve ever done or the hardest. I wanted to see if 12K is as impressive as it sounds. The mist over a river, the sun rising on a nature trail, and generally incorporated the 12K camera into as much of my work life as possible. I shot as much as I could with the URSA Mini Pro 12K. It was the fog over the Stone’s River in Tennessee. What does a director of photography shoot to take full advantage of a brand new 12K RGB sensor? Nature? People? Does one haze a space and show off shafts of sunlight blazing into the room? Or do you plan to find the right weather to capture an early morning mist? When you are amidst one of the busiest years of your career, you capture the moment nearest you.
