RED Cambook

**Luis Ortiz** · 07-09-2010, 04:02 PM

Sounds like a good value to me. Why would one need to use the additional 6 over-saturated color chips, though?

**jimhare** · 07-09-2010, 04:08 PM

Proper charts are expensive. Why?

My guess is because they aren't just printed like a normal book. There would be highly specialized printing hardware followed by strict verification of each and possibly a real number of rejects that are destroyed.

After they go through all that they aren't going to sell 50,000, they will probably sell 1,000 because it's a small market.

I don't think the price is shocking at all. You know what a good follow focus costs and that's just some metal and plastic gears. Like $75 worth of parts in a $4,000 unit.

Originally Posted by Stephen Pruitt

I'd like to know about the price, too. I was shocked at $425. I would have expected no more than $100. What do you get that is so special for your $425?

Stephen

**Graeme Nattress** · 07-09-2010, 04:20 PM

They cost because they're hard to print accurate and they're checked to ensure every colour on the chart is completely correct before they go out the door of DSC Labs. They take accuracy very seriously.

Graeme

**Matthew Rogers** · 07-09-2010, 04:23 PM

Just fyi... filmtools.com has the new RED Cambook for $399.95 + shipping.

**Tony Lorentzen** · 07-09-2010, 05:06 PM

Yep: http://www.filmtools.com/dsc-labs-red-cambook.html

**Brook Willard** · 07-09-2010, 05:18 PM

$429.95 now.

**Alex MacLean** · 07-09-2010, 05:29 PM

sweet! there on the red store now to

http://www.red.com/store/790-0123

**Noah Kadner** · 07-09-2010, 08:39 PM

Loverly- NEED.

Noah

**Matt Gottshalk** · 07-09-2010, 08:41 PM

Originally Posted by Jarred Land

working on that... ( quite seriously )

WHOA!

**Chris Parker** · 07-09-2010, 09:59 PM

here's a question that is somewhat related. but not really. anyways.....

when using single link HD SDI out of the red rocket, in YUV color space, at any bit rate, when fed to a scope, the blacks are raised and the whites are lowered by about 8% each, so if grading to that output, unless switching the rocket to RGB, it seems the levels will not match, as when we bring the footage into AVID after processing (or look at it via the RGB setting for out put on the rocket) the blacks go back to 0 and the whites back to 100. (on the YUV output the scope showed the blacks around 9 and the whites around 91.

i'm hoping i am just missing something simple, but figured i'd post in this thread.

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