Blackmagic Design at a glance
Blackmagic Design is an Australian company based in Melbourne that makes cinema cameras, broadcast equipment and software. It was founded on September 7, 2001 by Grant Petty. Its free and paid versions of DaVinci Resolve are among the most widely used programs for video editing and color grading. Its cameras are made for film and video rather than still photography, but they also take still images.
History
2001 to 2002. Founded in 2001, Blackmagic Design began with DeckLink, a video capture card.
2009. It bought da Vinci Systems, known for color-grading systems, and turned DaVinci Resolve into software for ordinary computers.
2010s. The Blackmagic Cinema Camera and Pocket Cinema Camera brought raw video to small budgets. The URSA cameras followed for larger productions.
2020s. The URSA Cine and PYXIS cameras and the free Blackmagic Camera app for phones.
Current cameras
Listed on blackmagicdesign.com, checked on November 3, 2026:
Cinema: URSA Cine 12K LF, URSA Cine Immersive and other URSA Cine models.
Box cameras: PYXIS 6K and PYXIS 12K.
Compact: Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K, Pocket Cinema Camera 6K G2 and 6K Pro.
Studio and broadcast: Micro Studio Camera 4K, URSA Broadcast G2.
Software: DaVinci Resolve and Blackmagic Camera app.
Sources: Blackmagic Design (Wikipedia), blackmagicdesign.com (current range, November 2026).
Last updated: November 2026
Blackmagic Design is the Australian maker of cinema cameras and DaVinci Resolve. This overview covers its history since 2001, the current cameras and its software.