The Blackmagic Design Cinema Camera has been highly anticipated since it'sannouncement at NAB 2012. Boasting a 2.5k image sensor and 12-bit RAW, ProRes, and DNxHD output formats, the Blackmagic Cinema Camera achieves image quality previously unattainable in a camera near this price range. At less than $3000, the Blackmagic Cinema Camera is poised to be a major force in digital cinema.

The Blackmagic camera’s unusual form factor, weight, battery location and built-in touch screen monitor create some significant limitations for practical filmmaking. Enter Redrock's ultraCage and accessories for Blackmagic Cinema Camera, to create one of the ultimate production camera systems.

ultraCage itself delivers the protection, accessory mounting, and form-fitting design, while Redrock's other accessories such as powerPack, rails, follow focus, and mattebox, deliver a complete solution for everything you need in a camera package.

ultraCage does not add any width to the camera. The vertical supports are almost invisible, stretching from the ultraBase platform and wrapping around the camera to meet the upper support clamp. From the rear you can't even see the cage. At top and bottom are 15mm rod supports, 1/4"-20 mounting points along both sides, and 1/4"-20 and 3/8"-16 mounting holes on top and bottom. All buttons and functions are fully accessible within ultraCage, so there’s no reason to ever take the camera out. LEARN MORE

The fully-loaded ultraCage is two rigs in one. The optional ultraPlate mounts perfectly on the camera's top side. Alone, it provides 14 mounting points and the cold shoe accessory mount most filmmakers rely on. Mount articulating arms to hold monitors. Mount lights, recording devices and carrying handles, or mount the camera underslung to a jib crane. When used with ultraCage, the cold shoe section of the ultraPlate is used to connect the camera to the chassis of the ultraCage, creating the most stable shooting situation possible. LEARN MORE

Wrapped in mounting points, ultraCage opens up your rig to limitless peripheral arrangements. It also acts as a roll bar, should your camera be dropped or hit. And since it leaves the camera unobstructed, you can swap SSD drives or attach cables in the middle of a shoot, all with the camera safe and secure within ultraCage.

Unique to the Blackmagic Cinema Camera is its cooling system, which is on the camera’s base. The Redrock ultraBase has integrated ports that allow air to flow freely, assuring proper ventilation and cooling of the camera. This is vitally important to the camera’s performance and reliability on set.

Like all models of ultraCage, the cage system for Blackmagic is modular: make it is as small or large as your production calls for, in just minutes. And it works with all other Redrock gear, as well as accessories like the microFollowFocus, microRemote system, powerPack, and many more.

If you've been holding off trying a cage system, we hear you. You've wanted a cage that isn't needlessly large, heavy, bulky and cumbersome. You've wanted one that's uniquely suited for your camera, that never gets in the way of camera function, no matter how your rig is configured. One that's a utilitarian extension of your camera's own design.