RED S35 or Panasonic AF100

[Erich Ocean]

Oh, I agree with the practicality/usefulness, but I don't think that is what motivates hackers. If I had to guess, I'd say that the cost of a RED One (and only 8000+ units shipped) is what keeps it from getting the hacker treatment. They tend to have much more time than money. ;-)

I've also heard (not sure where) that the RED One runs Linux. If true, RED would be required to release the source code for the Linux kernel (and possibly other GPL'd utilities) used in the RED One if someone asked for them, per the GPL. Again, I think there are so few RED cameras out there that it probably won't ever come up. I doubt any actual RED One users care about any of this.

[David C]

Yeah, hopefully Scarlet will have the HDR mode! That feature is definitely a game changer.

[David Rasberry]

http://pro-av.panasonic.net/en/af100/feature04.html

"The Dynamic Range Stretcher, Gamma Select and other image features have also been inherited from previous Panasonic professional camera recorders."

To Quote Barry Green on DVX:

"The 170, 150, 300 and 370 all offer DRS. It's one of those functions that can be pretty amazing, or not, depending on the circumstances. It works by taming the highlights and gaining up the shadows. But what's really crafty about it is that it doesn't do it globally to the whole picture, it only does it where it's needed -- so it's sort of like having an individual iris over every pixel almost.

The highlight preservation is quite good, but the shadow detail comes at the expense of added noise, just like any other kind of gain."

This sounds like a form of in camera knee and shoulder compression to keep the final encoded video within acceptable dynamic range limits. Kind of like tone mapping an HDR image, but not really a true HDR exposure process.

[Neil B Smith]

There is going to be HDR dynamic range imaging in the EPIC and SCARLET.

Read Jim's POST;
http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=41251

[Jim Retar]

Everything subject to change!

Last week, he said they will do everything possible to get it into Scarlet, but no guarantees.

As much as I would love the HDR mode, if Scarlet can hit 11-12 stops in normal mode, i'd be very happy.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Jeff,

Why does this Panasonic thread continue while other Canon & Alexa threads 'walk the plank'? How is consistency of discussion measured from a 'mods' perspective?

...Because I have failed in my moderator duties and responded instead of locking the thread. Sorry, couldn't resist temptation. But you're right, we're equal opportunity discriminators around here. So it's closed.