Fantastic video! Thank you for putting in the time to do this so thoroughly!

Hey Ryan, amazing and detailed explanation! I like how openly honest you talk about the products. Thanks for your advise for the focus and zoom demands

Thank you for doing this,you're the only one that actually covered everything. I was waiting for this camera many years,i had the Ursa G2 which i sold for couple of 6K Pro's and the dual native iso is such a game changer. Now having essentially the pocket 6K pro on the ursa body with extras that's something amazing... The price for this camera is very low ! Can't wait to get one. Thanks and subscribed

I know it's hard to do real accurate benchmarks. So kudos to you holding to the baseline, to get good side-by-side comparisons, and making the original files available. Good stuff.

Great overview Ryan - many thanks!

Great review! just got mine last week and used it for a livestream this weekend and I love it, now I need a B4 lens and the controlls :D

Been waiting for a video like this. Thanks so much

Thank you for creating such a thorough and thoughtful review of the Blackmagic Ursa Broadcast G2.

Thanks for this. This Is a video I've been waiting for someone to make since it was announced

Thanks Ryan for the review and given me lots opinions now

Thanks for this thorough review !

Thanks for the video Ryan!

Thanks for the very good review and comparison with the other BMD models!! Maybe I will upgrade my Ursa Broadcast G1 next year!! It would blend better with the Pocket 6k that I have.

Thank you. Very helpful. Liked and subscribed.

I found this to be an outstanding video in every way.

Great video!

This is an essential video. Thank you.

I agree about the Ethernet adapter, or even better if it was built in like the Studio Cameras. That would make the camera fiber converters almost obsolete, and there might be a PoE limitation issue as well.

Great Stuff!!!!

Your thoughts on using the G2 Broadcast as a studio camera in conjunction with the ATEM Extreme? I just purchased a Studio 4k Pro camera, but now I am thinking the URSA G2 Broadcast would open a few more options in the future.

Mine will be delivered to me on Monday. Yippee

Greate Video. I can't find the lenses compatible list for the zoom and focus control...

FANTASTIC video! This is my first time in your channel and love the content! If you allow me one question please. I'll build a home studio based on ATEM switcher and 2 or 3 BMD cameras. My first choice was to buy the Studio Camera 4K Pro with a sigma 16mm f2.8 lens; but, after seeing your video I think maybe the Broadcast G2 with EF lenses could be a better choice? I'll be making some training videos for my clients and will do live streams too. All by myself If is possible, I really like to know your opinon. Which of the 2 cameras would you choose? Thanks in advance and sorry for my English; I'm still learning Have a Productive and Healthy Day!

Great Work Rayn, Thanks. Where can I find the List of supported Broadcast Objetctiv there work with Blackmagic Zoom & Focus Demand. Thanks for Respons!😀

Hi Ryan, thank you for the review, it was very interesting and useful. I could see this fitting right into our workflow. One question I have is about latency. We film a number of music events where our output goes to IMAG screens either side of stage and latency becomes important. Do you have any idea on the number of frames of latency coming out of the SDI port? We have a fairly easy way to test that if it helps.

Very comprehensive! Only thing I'm missing is a rolling shutter test. The BMD 6K sensors is not well known about it.

Thank you

Ryan, A very comprehensive video. I am into wildlife video and would like to share your thoughts on using a 20X zoom lens with a doubler.(Fujinon 22X8BERD) or similar. Any comments or test experience with similar magnification that may be shared?? Thank you.

Which B4 lens are you using with the zoom and focus demands?

Did you try using a USB hub on the USB port? I recently noticed that at least 4k VAs can detect and use multiple storage devices through a hub.

Thanks for making this video. Unfortunately, I can't find the page in the manual that says which lenses are compatible with the zoom demand. Has it been updated since?

What broadcast lens were you using on that camera what zoom range is that

Hi Ryan, such a great review well done here mate. I film sport in Tasmania and have been using the Canon XF705/605's which do a great job to a point but even their X30 ädvanced Zoom" still looks a little digi at the tele end. Áfter looking at this video its hard to find a reason not to consider goin Black Magic for what I do. Ill contact you via your website. Again, brilliant review.

I have an issue with the tally light on these camera that can be seen in the viewfinder and lcd. It is just a very thin line and would like if it could be a much thicker line so that it can be seen properly

What B4 lens did you use😀

Also agree on the USB-C connector, quite a potential for crowding/over-utilization of the one USB-C connector. Too bad.

Given the sensor similarities to the pocket 6k there is much conversation about rolling shutter on this camera. Especially in broadcast applications such as sports. Do you have anything to add to this conversation? Thanks.

? My friend. Can i use the Black Magic zoom, focus system with the broadcast G1 camera??? thx.

Hi, thanks for the review. I think you made a mistake about field of view. Smaller sensor = higher crop factor. By the way, when you comment the Broadcast G2 you actually display the Mini Pro G2. So the wider is the Mini Pro G2, not the Broadcast. What I don't get is that the broadcast seems to have a higher crop factor than the 6k but this is the same sensor... This is not good news.

The stop and a half difference between B4 and EF isn't necessarily the mount, but the transmission levels of the different lenses. Unless both lenses were measured in T Stops then light transmission inconsistency is likely the real issue. One really can't use f Stops for mount transmission comparison.

I am in the states and shoot for networks who want the video fed via LiveU/TVU/Dejero. Some of these do not like progressive. I am shootng in camera 23.98 for feature work. I need to feed the 23.98 over these LiveU/TVU/Dejero that rally like interlaced. Can I do this? I see you have the setting to put the camera in 25p and send the vieo out to an interlaced switcher in a live situation. But can you shoot in 25p or 23.98 and send that media you have shot from the camera through a Liveu/TVU/Dejero that typically want interlaced in a feed situation? Thanks

I’m wondering how using the zoom rocker in the Fuji lens worked for you? When we turn our camera on we then need to switch from servo to manual and then back on the lens for the zoom rocker to function. Once done it continues to work...until powered down again. Then repeat the process. Have you found you needed to do the same thing? Thanks.

A few thoughts about this review: It is a good and thorough review as long as you are thinking in terms of studio only The camera is called Ursa Broadcast so I guess the main idea is that this camera can be used for ENG work (as the illustration on Blackmagic's site shows) and also studio and film. But the review has no information about the camera as a news camera. As a matter of fact, the camera shown in the. video doesn't even have a viewfinder, what clearly disqualifies it as a camera for field work. It's the first time I hear the first model being called G1. Is this a Blackmagic denomination or the author's ? To say that this camera costs "only" $4,000 is just half the story. They say the camera costs less than £3,000 here in the UK but I didn't know that and spent near £ 9,000 because I couldn't work with the camera only. I needed lenses, viewfinder, camera handle, tripod adapter etc. I bought the combo camera/Fujinon 4 K lens. A separate lenses alone would cost near £10,000. Real news camera are sold as a whole. Buy a Panasonic P2 or a JVC and you will get camera, lenses, viewfinder . They are not sold separately. Literally all reviews I've seen on KZfaq so far talk about this camera and the previous model as a studio camera only. There are no examples of the camera being used in the field. Even the review on newsshooter , which is about the previous model, only shows the camera being used in a TV studio. No work in the field. it seems that most people buy this camera for studio work, concerts etc but not for ENG work. I guess this is one of the reasons why Blackmagic got away so easily with the selling and advertisement of a camera, the first Ursa Broadcast, as a news and studio camera when the camera was for studio work only. Its sensor performs ridiculously bad in low light places, what completely disqualifies it for field work, it doesn't have a proper news codec , the handle is very small and hurts the hands, the audio input is placed on the top of the camera, what is really a bad idea (unless you are thinking in terms of studio only), there is no good body armour for it ( I bought and returned a Porta Brace and another brand) etc.

Is it so hard to add 4 Audio channels and good preamps :( ?

Have you tried if BRAW in HD mode allows the use of 1/2" and/or 1/3" lenses?

What is length zoom for G2

How do you get this on your shoulder without a viewfinder? How do you use it with EF lenses without a handle? At that point im having to get a third party handle and viewfinder, and handle, then I might as well get a lighter and more comfortable shoulder base. Then Im having to rig what supposed to be a broadcast camera. Another very nagging point, I watched this video on a high quality 1080p tv. Why? Because thats what Broadcast is. HD. So on there I never saw any noise you talked about. Or the differences in the EF being sharper than the broadcast lens. Now at home on my 4k screen I see some noise. A very small acceptable amount creeps in when you say its not useable? I barely noticed it, on my 4k screen. I thought we'd shoot raw and change the iso later. Or is getting exposure right number one, if so then why the RAW? So everything paid I have ever done was HD. Nothing looks bad in HD, and in 4k all the setting look great. Another point, if your using the broadcast camera with broadcast lenses, there are industry standard zoom and focus controllers. They havent changed in over 20 years. You can get them very cheaply on ebay. Why on earth would I but USB ones that ONLY work with this ONE CAMERA?! I am interested, but at the end of the day i need a camera to come out of the box, work with what I got and thats it. Im not nubbin together crap rigs on ebay or jugging 6 lenses around. Overall I appreciate your video, but I need to see actual footage, at night and day, of someone shooting with a broadcast and a ef zoom lens for me to even consider this camera. Why is there no viewfinder or support handle for EF lenses included?! IT MAKES NO SENSE!

Did you notice any fpn in lowlight conditions.

FYI: The second native iso starts at 1250, this is why 3200 has more noise than you were expecting because 3200 is the higher side of the second native iso.

Any chance to get som SD vs HD B4 comparison footage?

How did you get one so fast?.

Any idea when there will be a new firmware for the broadcast G2?

What tripod is that?

So the psf hack, I can shoot something at 60 fps with cinematic smoothness of 24fps

Time to sell my kidney

RTMP streaming, seriously!?

Very disappointed in the dynamic range allocation for this camera. Only 5 stops above middle gray @ ISO 800, while the Pocket 6k Pro has 6.9 stops above middle gray at that ISO. Sticking with the Pocket 6k Pro

i dont undersdant field news collector and what an ATM has to do with telemetry and I don't have a moped, you made Polish language on the menu, make instructions in Polish and turtiale because google the wrong translator

Bought 2 of them. The worst camera ever with shutter roll. Going back to Panasonic P2