Welcome to the digital revolution called RED. You probably already were seeing it even without knowing. A good example is the movie "Jumper". Not that I am interested in the movie itself, but mere the picture quality. You talk HD? This goes beyond HD it various from 2 times up to 4 times bigger. And it's all digital. 4K shot in raw footage and in the same time the camera creates quicktime movies. They can be used as reference but also as final production file. How does this camera look?
This is just the body, but it's all it is. The camera can be build up with all the gadgets and periphals you need to make it work. It weights a 4.5 kg and is more powerfull then any 35 mm Cine camera. It can record to Compact flash, Harddrives and special solid state flash drives. You wonder? Ok so it's better then film it's bigger then HD, but how does that look? Here is a still, be warned it's a still directly taken from the movie "crossing the line", shot with prototypes. It's 6,8 MB large so it will take a little time to see the original: (4096x1743 pixels not even the full size)
To make it clear again, this is not a photo, this is a movie still. There is so much to tell about this amazing technology, but you can find all the info on the RED website. Ow and don't forget to check the "shot on red" page. There you can find more examples of movies shot with RED. You will be amazed about the crisp and clear quality. There is nothing really nothig comparable. The small movie Mythbusters gives you an inside idea about how it works and how the workflow deals with the RED 4K RAW files. Ow and something else, there will be a 2K pocket pro version in 2009. Maybe it will wake up the moviemaker in you!To close, here another picture of the RED ONE 4K:
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I was looking at a display of film in a shop the other day, thinking of all the money I used to spend on film, and sometimes on renting a darkroom in nyc. for years I've been using point and shoots, and making BW pix in the computer. I have forgotten what little I knew of the old cameras and developing and film types (ilford was a favorite) anyway... I was given a little Leica (made by Leica and Panasonic) and have gotten into making tiny films.
It isn't unusual that I should find myself using simple cameras --as I started out with a brownie, and a polaroid. (instant gratification with the old polaroids, and it the photo wasn't any good, you could still make art by scratching a design into the picture! ) I was always broke partly because of the cost of my hobby--since age 9 or 10, it's been mostly people portraits. Ny older sisters always wanted their pictures taken and since they didn't get along, I became the photographer.
You inspired me to do self portraits.
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