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Blackmagic Design URSA EF | Upgradable 4K digital film camera - EF Mount

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URSA EF

Upgradable 4K digital film camera - EF Mount

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Blackmagic Design URSA Broadcast
URSA Broadcast

Professional broadcast camera for HD and Ultra HD

URSA re-defines camera ergonomics with multiple touch screens giving the camera operator, assistant and sound engineer dedicated working areas. This level of innovation - from a modular 4K camera at an astonishingly low price - will be very welome on film, drama and other high end sets.


  • EF lens mount
  • 4K Super 35 image sensor
  • 12G-SDI connection
  • Internal dual RAW and ProRes recorders
  • Built in 10" monitor
  • Intuitive touch screen camera user interface
  • 4-pin 12V to 30V XLR power connector
  • DaVinci Resolve Software Included
  • Broadcast Standard Power - Compatible with industry standard power supplies
  • Designed to be Rigged - Customize your rig to suit your production

* Battery mount not included

Introducing Blackmagic URSA, the world's first high end digital film camera designed to revolutionize workflow on set. Built to handle the ergonomics of large film crews as well as single person use, URSA has everything built in, including a massive 10 inch fold out on set monitor, large user upgradeable Super 35 global shutter 4K image sensor, 12G-SDI and internal dual RAW and ProRes recorders. Because the sensor and lens mount assembly can be changed, you can choose EF or PL lens mounts, or even a broadcast video sensor with B4 mount. This means you can upgrade to the latest sensor technology in the future and keep your investment in the camera body.

Professional Digital Film Camera
Designed for feature films, television commercials and more

Blackmagic URSA is designed to be used on high end feature films, commercials, episodic television production, documentaries, electronic news gathering, music videos and more. When used on jobs with a large crew you can easily dress the camera with high quality cinema lenses, rails, follow focus, matte boxes and more. With built in scopes for exposure, focus and audio levels, it's easy for DOP's to get perfect results every time. The dedicated screen for camera assistants lets them check and update camera parameters independently of the DOP. If you're shooting solo then the large fold out on set monitor, built in scopes and internal recorder means you don't need any extra on set equipment because it's all built into the camera. That's a whole film set of equipment built into the one extremely portable design.

Rethinking Camera Design
All your on set equipment built into one portable design

The Blackmagic URSA features a larger professional size that has the space for powerful cooling that allows higher frame rates while keeping the chassis cool and the fan super quiet. The machined aluminum design is incredibly strong and has been designed for large film crew use and to be field upgradable to new sensors by the user. Each area of the camera has been divided into separate DOP, camera assistant and audio engineer work stations. The DOP station features a large 10 inch fold out on set monitor and separate 5 inch screen for settings, camera status and scopes. The camera assist station features a separate screen for camera settings, status and scopes and an audio station features audio meters, controls and audio connections. The big screen means you don't need extra on set equipment so it's easy to move around quickly between shots. Simply fold in the monitor and go.

Shoot in incredible quality Ultra HD
Super 35 size sensor with feature film dynamic range

URSA is a true professional digital film camera with a 4K sensor, global shutter and an incredible 12 stops of dynamic range. The wide dynamic range blows away regular video cameras or even high end broadcast cameras, so you get dramatically better images that look like true digital film. The wide dynamic range preserves detail in dark shadows as well as bright highlights so you have a wider range of brightness levels to work with when colour grading in post production. The extra large Super 35 size allows for creative shallow depth of field shooting and the high resolution Ultra HD 12 bit lossless Cinema DNG RAW means you get incredible quality. You can also shoot Ultra HD or HD in Apple ProRes™ for easy post production workflow with minimum storage requirements.

Dual Recorders for Non Stop Recording
Keep recording forever so you never miss a critical event

Blackmagic URSA features dual recorders so you never need to stop recording to change media. That's critical if you are shooting an historical event, important interview or where you just cannot stop shooting. Simply load an empty CFast card into the second recorder and when the current card is full, the recording will continue onto the second card, allowing you to change out the full card and keep shooting. The built in recorders use new CFast card technology that allow recording up to 350 MB/s for incredible speeds, perfect for high frame rate RAW recording. Imagine shooting RAW and then playing back for the crew on the massive 10 inch screen.

Built in On Set Monitoring.
Massive Viewfinder as a fold out 10 inch screen

Say goodbye to bulky on set monitors because you get a massive fold out 10 inch screen built into Blackmagic URSA, making it the world's biggest viewfinder. The screen is super bright so it's easy to see when shooting outdoors, even in direct sunlight, plus it features an ultra wide viewing angle so you can pan and tilt to extremes and still see crystal clear images. When shooting in Ultra HD, focus becomes extremely difficult on small viewfinders, however with a massive 10 inch screen in full HD, you can see your images in amazing detail for perfect focus, framing and exposure. Because the screen tilts you can shoot down low, or high up over crowds and easily tilt the screen up or down to see your shot.

Two Extra 5" Touch Screens
Get full control on both sides of the camera

URSA features the world's most intuitive and advanced touch screen camera user interface. There are two 5" touch screens on both sides of the camera that put your settings, controls and monitoring tools at your fingertips.
The left side gives you quick access to all major settings via a touch screen and a row of control buttons. That means you don't have to hunt through complicated menus to make changes.
The right side displays settings like format, frame rate, shutter angle and more. There is a large prominent timecode display, an animated histogram for checking levels, a scrolling audio waveform monitor with clipping indicators and a spectrum scope for helping you check and adjust focus.

Broadcast Connections
Standard connections eliminates custom cables

The Blackmagic URSA features standard broadcast connections so you don't need to worry about buying expensive custom cables. You get 12G-SDI output that can be down converted to HD or used directly at amazing Ultra HD quality. There's also a 12G-SDI input that can display return video on the 10 inch monitor when working on live events or an external video source. A separate SDI output is available for attaching external viewfinders and eye pieces. For audio, there are 2 professional XLR connections with 48v phantom power so you can use the audio industry's best quality microphones. You also get timecode in/out and a LANC connector for controlling the camera, lenses, and accessories remotely.

Blackmagic Design URSA Viewfinder
URSA Viewfinder

High Resolution Viewfinder for URSA range
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Blackmagic Design URSA V-Mount Adapter
URSA V-Mount Adapter

V-Mount Adaptor for URSA Camera
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What CFast cards are recommended for 4K ProRes 422 HQ (up to 60 fps)?

The following CFast 2.0 cards are recommended for 4K ProRes 422 HQ (up to 60 fps)

  • Lexar Professional 32GB 3400x
  • Lexar Professional 64GB 3400x
  • Lexar Professional 128GB 3400x
  • Lexar Professional 256GB 3400X
  • Transcend 128GB CFX650
  • Transcend 256GB CFX650
  • Wise CFast 2.0 128GB 3400X

What CFast 2.0 cards are recommended for 4K RAW (up to 30 fps)?

The following CFast 2.0 cards are recommended for 4K RAW (up to 30 fps)

  • Lexar Professional 64GB 3400x
  • Lexar Professional 128GB 3400x
  • Lexar Professional 256GB 3400X
  • Transcend 128GB CFX650
  • Transcend 256GB CFX650
  • Wise CFast 2.0 128GB 3400X
New launches at ISE 2020

Here's an overview of our vendors exhibiting at ISE 2020. Please call us on +44 (0)1457 851000 if you would like to book a stand tour with one of our manufacturers. BLACKMAGIC DESIGN HALL 3, STAND C140 The Video Assist 12G 5” and 7” monitor recorders are now shipping. The original HD versions were incredibly popular with AV technicians who wanted to verify SDI and HDMI feeds and check waveform levels. For production teams, their 4K HDR capture makes them a superb on-camera SD card recorder. The ATEM Mini is a very small, cost-effective 4 channel HDMI video switcher with streaming output. Great as a portable mixer or a signal switcher, it’s being adopted by everyone from conference producers to AV technicians looking for simple HDMI switching.

Major announcements from Blackmagic Design

Not just some new products and technical updates from Blackmagic Design. No, these are major new products and massive technical updates.

Holdan offers Blackmagic Design BVE Show Specials

Special BVE Offers

Blackmagic launches 10 new products at NAB 2014

Blackmagic launches 10 new products at NAB 2014

What's new in Blackmagic Camera 8.5.1

The following models have new features:

Blackmagic URSA Broadcast G2
  • Reduced SDI output latency.
  • Adds media pool file browser.
  • Adds Blackmagic Cloud clip uploads.
  • Adds direct uploads to DaVinci Resolve projects.
  • Adds proxy recording for Blackmagic RAW and ProRes.
  • Adds Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) streaming protocol.
  • Adds ability to update and manage camera via ethernet.
  • Adds REST control API for remote control.
  • Adds login and secure certificate support.
  • Adds network time protocol support.
  • Adds web media manager support.
  • Adds file transfer protocol support.
  • Adds selective tally color setting.
  • Adds SMB file sharing support.
  • Improved lens compatibility.
Blackmagic URSA Studio Viewfinder Blackmagic URSA Studio Viewfinder G2
  • Improved ISO tally color from orange to yellow.

Improvements Since 8.5 Beta

Blackmagic URSA Broadcast G2
  • General Blackmagic Cloud improvements.
  • Fixed pixel recalibration failing at 24p.
  • Fixed H.265 and H.264 AV sync issue at 50, 59.94 and 60p on SDI out.
  • Fixed data tethering not working with some Google Pixel phones.
  • Fixed data tethering not working with some Mobile hotspots.
  • Fixed timecode UI counter stalling when mounting disks.
  • Fixed compatibility with Canon HJ22X7.6B IASE lens.
  • Improved snapping on audio gain slider.
  • Improved media page.
  • Improved QR login.
  • Localization improvements.

What's new in Blackmagic Camera 8.3.2

The following models have new features:

Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K:
  • Improves reliability of the image data during recording.
New features in Blackmagic RAW 3.4 are:
  • Adds support for Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K.
  • Adds support for Fujifilm GFX100 II Blackmagic RAW clips.
Minimum system requirements for Mac OS
  • macOS 12.0 Monterey or later
  • macOS 13.0 Ventura or later
Minimum system requirements for Windows
  • Windows 10 64-bit or later
  • Windows 11 64-bit or later

What's new in Blackmagic Camera 8.1

Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K
  • Improved compatibility with Zeiss Milvus & Otus EF lenses.
Pocket Cinema Camera 4K, 6K, 6K G2 and 6K Pro
  • Added support for automatically rotating the user interface when shooting vertical video.
  • Added ability to remap the L-Fn button on MFT lenses.
  • Added software update progress bar when installing new camera software.
  • Added new 9x16 frame guide preset.
  • Changed stills capture format from CinemaDNG to Blackmagic RAW.
  • Added ability to capture Blackmagic RAW reference stills while recording.
  • Added ability to capture Blackmagic RAW reference stills during playback.
  • Improved lens and auto focus performance.
  • Fixed bug with incorrect HDMI VIC codes being output on some formats.
Pocket Cinema Camera 6K, 6K G2 and 6K Pro
  • Added support for zoom servo controls when using the Canon EF-S 18-135mm lens.
  • Added ability to remap the shortcut buttons on Canon CN-E zoom lenses.
  • Added smoother auto iris changes with supported EF lenses.
  • Increased horizontal resolution of the 2.8K 17:9 format from 2868 to 2880.
Updated Blackmagic RAW 3.0 includes:
  • Adds support for Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K OLPF.
  • Adds support for automatically rotating vertical video clips.

What's new in Blackmagic Camera 8.0

  • Adds support for new Blackmagic Studio Camera 6K Pro.
  • Adds support for new Blackmagic Studio Camera 4K Pro G2.

In addition, the Blackmagic Studio Camera 4K Pro and Blackmagic Studio Camera 4K Plus models include the following new features:

  • Updated user interface.
  • Adds Ukrainian and Polish languages support.
  • Adds Blackmagic RAW stills capture.
  • Adds feature to capture stills while recording.
  • Support for writing motion sensor data to Blackmagic RAW recordings.
  • Support for retaining presets and LUTs for future updates.
  • Ability to map the L-Fn button on MFT lenses.
  • Improved lens and auto focus performance.
  • Improved codec response with LED walls.
  • Improved formatting performance with 4TB USB media.
  • Improved button mapping for focus and zoom demands.
  • Fixes a bug that could cause LCD glitches on some cameras.

Updated Blackmagic RAW 2.8 includes:

  • Adds support for Blackmagic Studio Camera 6K Pro.
  • Adds support for Blackmagic Studio Camera 4K Pro G2.
  • Adds support for Fujifilm X-T5 Blackmagic RAW clips.
  • Adds support for anamorphic desqueeze.

What's new in Blackmagic Camera 7.9.2

The following models have new features:

Blackmagic URSA Broadcast G2

  • Improved streaming compatibility.
  • Improved compatibility with some iPhone 12 models.
  • Improved gain, shutter and white balance switch behavior.
  • Improved codec response with LED walls.
  • Adds support for writing motion sensor data to Blackmagic RAW recordings.
  • Adds support for retaining presets and LUTs for future updates.
  • General performance improvements.

Blackmagic Camera Fiber Converter

  • Compatibility improvements.

What's new in Blackmagic RAW 2.6

  • Adds support for Fujifilm XH2s Blackmagic RAW clips captured by Blackmagic Video Assist.
  • Adds adjustable white balance and accuracy for Panasonic GH5S, BGH1.
  • Improved white balance accuracy for Panasonic S1H, S1, S5, BS1H.

What's new in Blackmagic Camera 7.9.1

The following models have new features:

Pocket Cinema Camera 4K, 6K, 6K G2 and 6K Pro

    • Improved reliability of recording to USB-C SSDs. • Improved reliability when updating the camera software. • Improved lag time when starting and stopping recording. • Fixed issue where Blackmagic RAW clips with LUT applied may not preview correctly in camera.

Pocket Cinema Camera 4K

    • Improved motion sensor data accuracy. • Improved reliability in detection of physical OIS switches on MFT lenses. • Fixed issue preventing users setting frame rate above 60 fps when shooting 4K 2.4:1.

What's new in Blackmagic RAW 2.6

    • Adds support for Fujifilm XH2s Blackmagic RAW clips captured by Blackmagic Video Assist. • Adds adjustable white balance and accuracy for Panasonic GH5S, BGH1. • Improved white balance accuracy for Panasonic S1H, S1, S5, BS1H.

What's new in Blackmagic Camera 7.9

  • Added Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 6K G2 support.

The following models have new features:

Pocket Cinema Camera 4K, 6K and 6K Pro

  • Added new updated user interface.
  • Added support for focus assist intensity adjustments via sliders
  • Added support for custom presets and LUTs to be retained after software updates from this release onwards.
  • Improved lens and auto focus performance

Pocket Cinema Camera 6K, 6K G2 and 6K Pro

    • Added support for Blackmagic Design Zoom and Focus demands.

What's new in Blackmagic RAW 2.5

      • Added Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 6K G2 support

What's new in Blackmagic Camera 7.7.2

URSA Mini Pro 12K

      • Manufacturing improvements.

What's new in Blackmagic RAW 2.3

      • Improves Blackmagic RAW recording from the SIGMA fp and fp L.
      • Added sample code project for a command line OpenEXR transcoder.
      • Premiere Pro plugin performance and stability improvements.
      • General performance and stability improvements.

What's new in Blackmagic Camera 7.7.1

This following models have new features.

Blackmagic Studio converter

      • Improved speaker output.
      • Fixed Timecode output bug.
      • Fixed line on right side of monitor output.
      • Fixed speaker auto latching on factory reset

What's new in Blackmagic RAW 2.2.1

      • Premiere Pro plugin performance and stability improvements.
      • General performance and stability improvements.

What's new in Blackmagic Camera 7.6

      • Added support for Blackmagic Studio Converter

What's new in Blackmagic Raw 2.2.1

      • Premiere Pro plugin performance and stability improvements,/
      • General performance and stability improvements,/

What's new in Blackmagic Camera 7.5

      • Added support for Blackmagic URSA Broadcast G2.
      • Added support for Blackmagic URSA Studio Viewfinder G2.

What's new in Blackmagic RAW 2.2

      • Add support for Blackmagic RAW clips from Fujifilm GFX100 and GFX100S.
      • Add support for Blackmagic RAW clips from Panasonic Lumix GH5S, BS1H and BGH1.
      • Blackmagic RAW plugin performance and stability improvements for Premiere Pro.

Download the latest Firmware and Software

  • Blackmagic URSA EF
  • Active EF Mount turret
  • Turret Dust Cap
  • 12V AC Adapter
  • Tripod mounting plate adapter
  • DaVinci Resolve and dongle

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