Blackmagic Design URSA Mini Pro 4.6K (PL)

The Blackmagic Design URSA Mini Pro 4.6K (PL) combines pro-grade features with the original Mini’s familiar, compact body style. We also carry the newer . Key features include:

• 4.6K Super 35mm sensor

• External controls

• Fifteen-stop dynamic range

• PL mount

New Professional Features. The URSA Mini Pro 4.6K offers many professional-grade features that distinguish it from the previous . You get a raft of external controls that eliminate menu diving for focus assist, frame rate, and exposure settings. There’s an exterior LCD that provides at-a-glance shooting data, a four-position ND filtration wheel (0/2/4/6-stops), and both dual CFast 2.0 and SD memory card slots for recording less intensive formats.

4.6K Super 35mm Sensor. This imaging sensor speaks for itself: 4,608 × 2,592 resolution, 15 stops of dynamic range, and 160 fps (HD). Need we say more?

Compact Handheld Design. While still maintaining the familiar URSA design, the Mini Pro’s more compact size allows it to be used by smaller crews and fewer hands. The optional shoulder mount makes the URSA Mini Pro even more versatile, allowing you to swap it from hand-held shooting to over-the-shoulder use to a tripod mount with ease. The magnesium-alloy build cuts the Mini Pro’s weight to just five pounds.

Touchscreen Controls. Despite its reduced size, the URSA Mini Pro comes equipped with a four-inch folding monitor. Its touchscreen interface allows access to all menu functions, eliminating the hassle of menu-diving.

PL Mount. This version features the Positive Lock (PL) mount, making it compatible with a wide range of professional cinema lenses.

Anton Bauer Gold Mount. When you rent an URSA, it’ll come with an Anton Bauer Gold Mount battery plate pre-attached. We include one and one . If you need additional batteries and chargers, you can rent them by following the above links.

Want More Gear? As an alternative to our standard URSA Mini Pro 4.6K, we also rent an is built for renters who want a shoulder-mounted rig and the flexibility to choose their own lenses.

The Pro version of the URSA Mini adds new features that should make for less finger tap dancing around the touchscreen menus. An ND filter wheel is the best new addition in my opinion, but tactile …

The Pro version of the URSA Mini adds new features that should make for less finger tap dancing around the touchscreen menus. An ND filter wheel is the best new addition in my opinion, but tactile switches and/or wheels for ISO, shutter, white balance, and iris will make swapping settings less of a headache overall and much easier to do while using the viewfinder accessory. Other adds include the ability to record to UHS-II SD cards and an LCD information panel on the rear of the LCD door. All of these are welcome additions.

The camera brings the same sensor and recording capabilities of the standard Mini 4.6k, so if you liked the image you were getting there, you should be just as happy here. Assuming the new switches and knobs hold up to prolonged use, it does seem that Blackmagic has made a worthwhile improvement to the Mini line.