The Blackmagic Design PYXIS 6K Cinema Box Camera builds on the advancements of the Blackmagic Design Cinema Camera 6K, reimagining them in a box-style body with a lockable Canon EF lens mount and customizable side panels. Its full-frame 6K sensor delivers vibrant colors, natural skin tones, and an impressive 13-stop dynamic range, thanks to its larger 36 x 24mm sensor. You can record Blackmagic RAW and H.265 proxy files directly to the cloud, or stream live to your preferred social media platforms using Ethernet or 4G/5G connectivity. The PYXIS supports shooting in 6K Open Gate 3:2 video at 36 fps or 6K Anamorphic 6:5 video at 60 fps, along with other resolution options.
- Full-Frame 6K Sensor
- Canon EF Lens Mount
- 4" HDR LCD Touchscreen
- Up to 6K36 fps Open Gate / 6K Anamorphic
- 13-Stop Dynamic Range, Dual-Native ISO
- Records Blackmagic RAW and H.264 Proxies
- Built-In Streaming via Ethernet or 4G/5G
- Switchable Side Plates, Mounting Threads
- Two CFexpress Card Slots, USB-C Port
- Ethernet and 12G-SDI Ports
Engineered for Ultimate Customization
The Blackmagic PYXIS is designed with numerous mounting points and accessory side plates, allowing you to transform it into the ideal camera for any shoot. Its compact body is crafted from precision CNC-machined aerospace aluminum, making it both lightweight and incredibly durable. You can easily mount it on a variety of rigs, including cranes, gimbals, and drones.
Along with the multiple 1/4″ and 3/8″ threaded mounts on the top and bottom, PYXIS offers side plates for even more flexibility in attaching accessories like handles, microphones, or SSDs. This versatile design enables you to create a rugged and reliable camera setup for any production!
Achieve the “Hollywood Look” with Digital Film
The Blackmagic PYXIS offers professional-grade features ideal for feature films, television shows, and documentaries. Now, this same high-quality technology is accessible for creating cinematic content for social media, YouTube, and beyond.
With PYXIS, you’ll enjoy the same advanced features found in high-end digital film cameras, delivering richer colors, finer image details, and a wider dynamic range from bright highlights to deep shadows. This is why feature films look so stunning—and now you can apply that same level of production quality to any project, whether it's a low-budget indie film, TV commercial, or corporate video!
Large Format Cinematic Digital Film Sensor
The Blackmagic PYXIS boasts a huge full-frame sensor with a native resolution of 6048 x 4032—nearly three times the size of a Super 35 sensor. This gives you the flexibility to achieve a shallow depth of field or shoot with anamorphic lenses uncropped, delivering an authentic cinematic aesthetic.
Whether filming in bright daylight or extremely low light, its 13 stops of dynamic range and dual native ISO up to 25,600 ensure remarkably low-noise images in any lighting environment. You can capture at up to 36 fps with the full sensor or up to 120 fps in windowed mode. Paired with Blackmagic's advanced color science, this powerful sensor provides the same image quality as high-end digital cinema cameras.
Full Frame Versatility
The Blackmagic PYXIS' large full-frame sensor offers incredible flexibility, allowing you to shoot in a variety of film formats and aspect ratios without compromising quality. Utilizing the full sensor area provides a unique 3:2 open gate image, enabling you to easily reframe shots during post-production. The sizable sensor also supports true 6:5 anamorphic shooting without cropping, delivering widescreen cinematic images with enhanced detail and higher resolution. Additionally, you can switch to the classic Super 35 window mode to instantly create a ‘close-up’ version of your shot that blends seamlessly with open gate footage. This versatility allows you to produce high-quality cinematic content with a distinctive look!
Multiple Resolutions and Frame Rates
The Blackmagic PYXIS supports a wide range of resolutions and frame rates, from HD to DCI 4K, and even up to 6K. It can also capture stills at an impressive 24.6 megapixels! You can shoot up to 36 fps in 6048 x 4032 3:2 open gate or 60 fps in both 6048 x 2520 2.4:1 and 4096 x 2160 4K DCI. For even higher frame rates, you can window the sensor and shoot up to 100 fps in 2112 x 1184 Super 16 mode.
Additionally, PYXIS allows for true anamorphic 6:5 shooting at much higher resolutions than most cameras, such as 4.8K at 24 fps (4832 x 4032). You can even shoot at 120 fps in 1080HD! With Blackmagic PYXIS, you’ll always have the flexibility to capture the right resolution and frame rate for any project.
Large 4″ LCD Monitor
The built-in LCD on the Blackmagic PYXIS goes beyond a basic status screen—it's a 4″ high-resolution HDR touchscreen, ideal for monitoring and reviewing shots directly on set. With full HD resolution, it allows you to frame and focus your shots accurately, eliminating the need for a bulky external monitor. You can also use it as a focus assist station. The HDR display features 1500 nits of brightness, ensuring clear visibility and control over your shots, even in bright sunlight.
On-screen overlays provide essential information, including status, recording parameters, histograms, levels, and frame guides. Plus, you can quickly apply 3D LUTs to preview shots with the desired color and style.
All Controls at Your Fingertips
The Blackmagic PYXIS is designed with user-friendly controls, placing key functions like ISO, white balance, and shutter speed right at your fingertips via both touchscreen and physical buttons. A convenient scroll wheel allows for fast adjustments, while a row of three customizable function buttons means you won’t need to dig through menus to access essential commands.
The recording and still capture buttons are intuitively positioned exactly where you’d expect, alongside dedicated function keys for high frame rates, focus, zoom, false color, and more. To prevent accidental changes during filming or when the camera is mounted on a rig, the controls can be locked, ensuring seamless operation.
Post-Production Friendly File Formats
The Blackmagic PYXIS records in Blackmagic RAW, offering maximum control over detail, exposure, and color during post-production. Additionally, it simultaneously records HD H.264 proxies, allowing you to share media globally in minutes.
Blackmagic RAW is highly optimized, multi-threaded, and supports multiple CPU cores, while also being GPU-accelerated for Apple Metal, CUDA, and OpenCL. This ensures your footage retains exceptional resolution and quality for color grading, keying, compositing, reframing, stabilization, and tracking in HD, 4K, or 6K. Media files are compatible with all operating systems, and you can format media cards and disks in HFS+ for Mac or ExFAT for Windows.
Record to CFexpress Cards or External Disks
The Blackmagic PYXIS is equipped with two built-in CFexpress card slots and a USB-C expansion port, allowing you to record directly to external flash drives or SSDs. CFexpress cards are faster and more durable than older media, making them ideal for capturing full-resolution, 12-bit Blackmagic RAW files. You can record over an hour of full 6K footage on a single 256GB CFexpress card!
With dual card slots, you can hot-swap full cards without stopping the recording, ensuring continuous capture. The high speed of CFexpress cards also allows for seamless editing directly from the card on your computer using the included DaVinci Resolve Studio software.
Professional Connections for Custom Rigs
The Blackmagic PYXIS offers a comprehensive array of connections for audio, monitoring, power, and more. It includes a 12G-SDI output, supporting HDR and Ultra HD, which allows you to connect an SDI display for on-set monitoring, complete with overlays that provide critical information and camera status. SDI connections enable much longer cable runs than HDMI, making it easier to position monitors further away on set.
Additionally, the camera features a mini XLR input with 48-volt phantom power for microphones, a 3.5 mm input for standard video camera microphones, timecode input, reference input, a headphone jack, and a locking DC power connector.
Built-in Microphonesand Professional Audio Inputs
With professional, high fidelity audio recording built in you'll never have to carry around a separate sound recorder again! Blackmagic PYXIS features a mini XLR input with 48 volts of phantom power for connecting professional microphones such as lapel mics and booms. The built in mics have an extremely low noise floor and are shock and wind resistant, capturing great sound and are ideal for recording guide tracks on location. There’s also a 3.5mm audio input for connecting video camera microphones, along with a built in speaker for playback and a 3.5mm headphone jack. These audio connections allow you to record separate audio tracks using microphones, without an external mixer.
Shoot Still Framesup to 24.6 Megapixels
In addition to shooting video, Blackmagic PYXIS can also capture high resolution stills. Simply press the dedicated stills button to record 24.6 megapixel images. Still images are saved as Blackmagic RAW, so you get a very high image quality, which is perfect for making high resolution professional prints or for later editing in DaVinci Resolve. Capturing still images is great for keeping track of continuity between shots or for sharing images to get approval from clients that are not on set.
Wireless BluetoothCamera Remote Control
If you're positioning the camera on the end of a boom, or in another hard to reach location, you can get full control via Bluetooth from up to 30 feet away. You can download the Blackmagic Camera Control app for your iPad or use third party apps such as Bluetooth+ or tRigger on your iOS and Android devices.
There’s even a free developer SDK with sample code available from the Blackmagic Design developer website, so you can create your own remote camera control and digital slate solutions! Imagine building an app that can jam sync timecode and trigger all cameras to record at the same time. The possibilities are endless!
Power from Batteries or 12V DC
The Blackmagic PYXIS is compatible with high-capacity BP-U series batteries, which are widely available and come in various capacities. The highest capacity BP-U battery allows for over 3 hours of shooting on a single charge! Additionally, a range of battery adapters and charger plates from third-party manufacturers ensures you'll never run out of power. When using DC power, the camera features a locking connector, eliminating concerns about losing power during a shoot, especially when the camera is mounted on a rig or jib. You also receive a set of international socket adapters for convenient worldwide use.
Includes DaVinci Resolve Studio
The Blackmagic PYXIS comes with a full version of DaVinci Resolve Studio, the same powerful software utilized in Hollywood for producing high-end feature films, episodic television, commercials, and more. DaVinci Resolve features a new cut page equipped with intelligent editing tools and innovative features that help you quickly locate footage, edit seamlessly, and export efficiently. Alongside the cut page, you also gain access to DaVinci's renowned professional editing capabilities, advanced color correction, audio post-production, and visual effects tools—all within a single application!
With this software, you can work with the same high-end tools that professional editors and colorists rely on.