It's not the need for adaptation that's the problem with micro-HDMI; it's the ridiculous fragility of it. It WILL become faulty on the second day of use, making

It's not the need for adaptation that's the problem with micro-HDMI; it's the ridiculous fragility of it. It WILL become faulty on the second day of use, making your "cine" camera useless for some applications. But yes, SDI is the hallmark of more-professional gear. I always thought it was perplexing that the first truly affordable UHD camera (the BlackMagic Production Camera 4K) only had SDI and no HDMI whatsoever. At $3K, it appealed to a market that would not own SDI-based equipment. But they were forced to buy a more-expensive SDI viewfinder or an HDMI adapter (and mess with powering it). Still... all of that is preferable to micro-HDMI.