17K for $30K – Blackmagic URSA Cine 17K Camera Now Available for Pre-order

How much resolution do you want? Yes!

While some camera manufacturers keep postponing 8K camera models due to the industry’s slower adoption of the very high resolution and the massive data rates that come with it, other companies are moving in the other direction. Blackmagic Design already gave us the URSA Mini Pro 12K back in July 2020, followed by the URSA Cine 12K full-frame model announced at this year’s NAB show.

This year, BMD decided to go even further than 12K, and at the very same NAB show in 2024, they announced an even crazier URSA Cine 17K camera with a 65mm sensor. Well, today, Blackmagic Design announced the pricing and availability of that camera. Let’s take a short look at the details.

URSA Cine 17K -the company’s high-end model

The upcoming Blackmagic URSA Cine 17K is the company’s high-end flagship model. In the words of the company itself:

“We wanted to build a dream camera that has everything you would ever want in a high end digital film camera that could shoot for extremely large screens and immersive environments.”

Blackmagic Design on the URSA Cine 17K

65mm sensor. Source: Blackmagic Design

The camera features a large 65mm image sensor with a physical size of 50,808×23,316mm (55.9mm diagonal) and a resolution of 17,520×8,040 pixels (a whopping 140MP in each frame). This results in a pixel pitch of 2.8 microns.

The camera body, with all the connections and physical buttons, seems identical to the URSA Cine 12K. It will come with an ARRI LPL or Hasselblad lens mount to accommodate lenses capable of producing an adequate image circle to cover its 65mm sensor.

LPL lens mount. Source: Blackmagic Design

Price and availability

Today’s big news is that the Blackmagic URSA Cine 17K is now available for pre-order, with shipments happening later in the year. Blackmagic Design calculated the price to be $29,995. The camera will be demonstrated at the Blackmagic Design IBC Stand 7.C49, so if you are attending the show, make sure to check it out.

Are you shooting 8K or above in your video productions? What do you think about the upcoming URSA Cine 17K? Let us know in the comments section underneath the article.