No way I'd buy a 1dc for 12k a month before nab. I've shot with it a lot, it's a great small cam if shooting 4k and finishing 1080, but not to finish in 4k with heavy grading. If you don't have to push it around a lot with color in post, then a 4k finish will hold up. There is still a thinness to the image if grading and finishing 4k as compared to say an epic which is very dense, but large price difference there. I've not shot with any blackmagic cam yet....