Favourite Reduser Quotes™™™™™™™™™™™™

[Martin Weiss]

Mike McEntire's first impressions on his new EPIC:

I am going to try to put into words how amazing this camera is. I have been shooting since 6th grade 40 some years ago and have always tried to have the best equipment I can get my hands on. I remember how stoked I was when my dad gave me my first Nikkormat back then. I remember my first Beaulieu 4008, Arri S, Arri SR3, Red One, etc...
All of these cameras were and still are incredible but this Epic M seems like it dropped out of Outer Space into my lap.
This is what I have always wanted in a camera and I am going to try my best to push it to its limits.
Much love to all the Red Team who put their hearts and souls into this little slice of heaven.
Truly a work of art.

[Martin Weiss]

No reason to get good lenses unless you are going to use them...

Jim

Resolution test

[Roberto Lequeux]

All I must say at the moment that wine always makes you thinking simply just better and always in a right direction...

Stay tuned...

Don't drink and drive SJ.

[Martin Weiss]

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[I]f I told my accountant I wanted to drop $60k on an M she would divorce me and I'd have to go buy a used betacam or something.

Oh... wait... she has more money than I do! Maybe I could make a business case for divorce...

Mike

[Christian Munoz D]

IMHO I think this quote must be at the top of the list.
Thank you David for been who you are!

Thanks... but I don't want any compensation -- how can I be generous if I'm being compensated? Then it's like work. The fact that some people will find what I say useful to them in some manner is enough compensation for me. The greatest gift is to know that my accumulation of knowledge has practical value for others.

[Erik Franzén]

[...] I hate the idea that a shot only is interesting because of the lens rather than the content in front of the lens...

I don't know how, but the man's got some serious talent for stating the truth in a plain and simple way...

[D Fuller]

Thanks David. Sounds like he's getting coal this year in his stocking.

I'm still laughing over this quote.

[Martin Weiss]

:o)

I was fondling, er I mean evaluating, Chater Camera's new Epic-M yesterday

[Erik Franzén]

The only difference between a little boy and a man is the price of his toys...

:-)

[Martin Weiss]

David on professionals that are very negative about RED:

One problem is that professionals get to know new equipment in irregular spurts because they can get on one show for awhile and be using the same technology for a two-year period (especially TV people) and then look up and find that the technological landscape has changed a lot in two years or whatever. So there are a certain number of DP's whose opinions about Red were formed in the early pre-MX days and haven't had the time or opportunity to get acquainted with the latest developments and improvements -- they are still bitching about a camera that existed three years ago, not the camera that exists today (nor the workflow and processing that exists today.)

I think a lot of them will come around over time.

A smaller percentage just have a beef with Red, or they have favorite manufacturers, or whatever small-minded personal reasons they have -- it's hard to argue with those people. But even those people can change their minds over time, shift loyalties. Any decent DP has to be highly adaptable or else they wouldn't be successful -- the profession breeds out or weeds out a certain level of complacency. They have to keep up with their competition.

Part of the lack of respect for Red is probably just the result of being affordable, the same way that expensive cars are more respected than cheaper cars, even if actual performance is the same. But even there, most DP's are results-oriented because in the end, that's all that everyone else ever sees of their work, the final results. So picking technology just because it's hip or cool or new, etc. only gets you so far before you have to deliver real results. In the long run, Red will rise or fall in large part due to the quality of the images, and if that's so, I wouldn't worry.