Gahhhh !

DaireQuinlan

This is about as gear-porny as it gets I suppose ...

http://www.engadget.com/photos/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/1155678/

Red's rather dramatic new modular stills & video system. I think it was Fajitas who was going on about this a while back in breathless, hushed tones ?

Up to a 6x17cm sensor aswell. That'll set you back 55000 dollars though.

Its like lego for camera junkies with far too much money

Fajitas!

Hasselblad are probably getting a bit worried.

Tbh, that's amazing, I'm off home to change pants.

PopeBuckfastXVI

Oh... by the way. 3D

Awesome!

DaireQuinlan

PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »

Awesome!

Oh Yeah, forgot to point that out in my original post. That's the coolest thing ever:D I'm presuming here you'd need two sensors though, along with the two lens mounts and identical lenses etc etc. I'm not sure how practical that would be. It'd be cool if you could get together with your (also red-wielding) mate over the weekend and bolt your cameras together for some super 3D

Fajitas!

Right... Imagine this... shooting a wedding.

Canon 85mm 1.2L, Red body with top down screen, and the 6cm x 17cm sensor...

You got incredible control over depth of field, candids, as your looking down into your camera rather than looking at your subject... and a panoramic sensor, so big that noise is a thing of the past. Bam.

Hell, double it, and you got the worlds first 3D wedding photographer

duffarama

Fajitas! wrote: »

Right... Imagine this... shooting a wedding.

Canon 85mm 1.2L, Red body with top down screen, and the 6cm x 17cm sensor...

You got incredible control over depth of field, candids, as your looking down into your camera rather than looking at your subject... and a panoramic sensor, so big that noise is a thing of the past. Bam.

Hell, double it, and you got the worlds first 3D wedding photographer

Horrible corner softness and vignetting as well no doubt

ThOnda

Oh my ......
Well, I can see that "saving" for 5D MkII was just a joke so far.

sheesh

All the same I think I'll stick with my 400d until it comes down in price:D

ThOnda

Fajitas! wrote: »

...Canon 85mm 1.2L, Red body with top down screen, and the 6cm x 17cm sensor...

How would you focus such a beast???

democrates

ThOnda wrote: »

Oh my ......
Well, I can see that "saving" for 5D MkII was just a joke so far.

I have that on order since 3 Oct and thanks to the pressure brought on by the tantric shipping schedule, one eye now randomly blinks. Great. Was that me or the shutter.

When it arrives I'll make an effort to put something together and post, not professional like reverie obviously, but a more accurate demonstration of what other rank amateurs can expect as well as being further anecdotal evidence that there's no such thing as fool-proof.

Fajitas!

duffarama wrote: »

Horrible corner softness and vignetting as well no doubt

Oh, that's just part of the 'art' - Check out a holga! :pac:

ThOnda wrote: »

How would you focus such a beast???

That's why you're using an external monitor.

Hugh_C

bah humbug, give me film any day, red can be a pain in the ar3e to use, workflow-wise.

DaireQuinlan

Hugh_C wrote: »

bah humbug, give me film any day, red can be a pain in the ar3e to use, workflow-wise.

ooo ! Have you used one of their video cameras ? How is it a PITA over film though ? I'd have thought there's a whole workflow you have to get through to get a scanned film to the point where you have a clean editable colour matched stream. If you use a DV camera OTOH you have it right there in the bag ? That said, I know next to nothing about this

Fajitas!

I've dabbled aswell.

Not on a serious level mind - And I can see how the workflow can be a PITA. That said, I've never used film for filming, only for stills... So can't compare it to that

DV is straight in the bag alright.

Hugh_C

I confess to being a complete film snob so don't even use DV and film in the same sentence!

That said, most budgets nowadays don't stretch to film, so Red, if it's affordable is possibly the next best thing, and I believe it's compatible with all those beautiful fast film primes. Where it's a PITA though is at ingest time, you have to store all those rushes somewhere and red, as I understand it, use a proprietary way of encoding their pictures, which means that for a "normal" TV project be it in HD or whatever, you'll require many many terabytes of extremely reliable storage, and working, reliable backups, and probably backups of those as well. So there's a MASSIVE requirement for storage which may possibly defeat the advantage it might have over more traditional tape formats or film. The cards it "shoots" onto are fierce expensive to.

Film is sweet because it's cheap to bang it onto tape (most labs offer this service at a pittance), then you edit that one-light (as it's called), make all your decisions and then re-transfer the selected material onto whatever your finishing medium is.

There's a few Reds in the country now I think. Under the bed?

Thirdfox

Hugh_C wrote: »

There's a few Reds in the country now I think. Under the bed?

*Raises hand* under the bed, on the bed and completely surrounding the bed ...oh we weren't talking about Communism? Nevermind

TelePaul

Think I'll buy one.