Does anyone here have both a 5D Mark III and a BMCC or at least compared the ISO?

skital

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I'm really curious to know what ISO on the Mark III matches or comes the closest to the light level of the native 800 ISO of the BMCC? The reason being is I'm considering using a Pocket Cinema and a 5D Mark III shooting RAW. The 5D would be used for the super wide shots, shots that have too much aliasing/moire with teh BMPCC, shots needing extra shallow DOF and the lowest light shots. The BMPCC would be especially used for a majority of the shots containing the highest dynamic range, especially ones with the brightest highlights and halfway decent light.

I'm just curious at what ISO the Mark III's light level matches the Black Magic's 800ISO, because the BM's highest dynamic range is at 800 and the Mark III starts off with about a stop or so less dynamic range at what I believe is 160ISO (from what I've read) and its dynamic range goes down as the ISO goes up. I'm going from the DXOMark scores.
 
I've got the MK3 with me, running the latest from ML on a Lexar 128GB card and my BV1-MFT:

It looks like BV1(Blackmagic)'s 800 ISO = 5D3's 1600 ISO as far as exposure goes, or roughly 1250/1600.
 
I've got the MK3 with me, running the latest from ML on a Lexar 128GB card and my BV1-MFT:

It looks like BV1(Blackmagic)'s 800 ISO = 5D3's 1600 ISO as far as exposure goes, or roughly 1250/1600.

Thanks! That's very helpful.
 
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