Cool! Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera shoots pictures in space!

What you see here on top is a frame from a video shot with the [shoplink 49834 ebay]Micro Four Thirds BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera[/shoplink] sent with a ballon on the space frontier! The lens Keisuke Iwaya used to shoot this is the [shoplink 49835 ebay]Panasonic Lumix G Vario 7-14mm f/4.0[/shoplink]. The video can be seen here:

Fusen Ucyu – BMPCC GOES TO SPACE from Raitank on Vimeo.

Keisuke writes:

“Fusen Ucyu (Baloon Space) Project” is a young ambitious amateur astrophysicist, Keisuke Iwaya’s private mission to send various cameras up to space beyond the earth’s atmosphere with Meteorological balloons to shoot beautiful images of our blue planet.

On 20th of July, 2014, Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera was sent up for the first time with Atomos NinjaStar, with 128GB CFast card, to capture the whole two-hour-long journey from the ground to 28.5km (17.7mile) peak at stratosphere, and free-fall back to the Mother Earth.

Newshooter writes:

Going into space was going to push the camera to its absolute limits. The BMPCC is only rated to work in temperatures between 0-40c. The camera also had to free fall for 30 minutes and then survive the impact once it came back to earth. The team designed several features that enabled all the equipment to return intact and operational.

The amazing pictures of the tools they used can be seen at raitank.jp/archives/18184. What a great project!