For me, this is where DSLRS come into their own, the footage looks great.
If you think back to only 5-6 years ago what you could shoot on for 2000$, it was extemely difficult to get results like this, and then you had to use things like a letus adaptor etc - nightmare
The bmcc is a great product, but as you say, you bought it for more than retail. Add in the price of ssd cards, external battery - due to the 90 minute internal, also add a rig to use it off sticks, and a new lens to get wider than what your EF lens will provide because of the crop, and it probably is in the region of 4000$-$5000 or more?
The 6d, whilst not perfect by any means, cost me the price of the body, everything else I had left over from previous cameras. And that, for me, is it´s strength
The lenses I use for the bmcc are lenses I already own, or was going to buy anyways.
I didn't HAVE to pay over retail, I was just sick of waiting around.
Even at $5000 it's worth every penny, the image it produces is amazing. It may have it's issues here and there, but
this is their first run, and I would say firmware updates will address 90% of the issues in the near future. The cost of SSD's
are dropping everyday, I would rather pay for SSDs over P2, RED mags. And don't get forget, an extreme pro SD isn't that cheap either.
The cost of 4 extreme pro SD's to equal the size of an SSD would come out to the same cost.
A 6d would ALSO require a rig or stabilizer to produce quality handheld.
If you already have lenses, the cost to quality ratio trumps the 6d by a million...IF your main focus is video.
low light is the ONLY thing the 6d has over the bmcc as far as video. but a majority of the things the bmcc will be shooting
is properly lit settings for shorts/commercials and so on.
has anybody on here ever used a GH2 or is it just live by Canon die by Canon around here?