Humberto Rivera
Well-known member
I must say, the announcements in the last few days out of NAB 2011 are on a long line of continuing “Revolutionary Announcements” that continue to lead the pack (of the Motion Picture Industry). Yet I see “Reluctance”, on the part of the “Motion Picture Industry Primary Press” to acknowledge the “Work Of The Red Camera Company”, too bad. However, I do see “Film and Digital Times” coming around, recently John Fauer, ASC has signed on to Red User, good move, welcome John. But, “The Hollywood Reporter”, and “Variety” still seem to be waiting in the Sidelines. Meanwhile Red moves-on!
On November 9, 2010 the R3D Files were protected by a U.S. PATENT issued to Red.Com, Inc., lake Forest, California, Inventors, “James Jannard” of Las Vegas, Nevada and “Thomas Graeme Nattress” of Ontario, Canada, THIS IS HUGE, they are NOT very likely to license anyone else to use it, it means that the “OLD FILES” are not “OBSOLETE” they can be updated as the “TECHNOLOGY” advance, IN ANY RESOLUTION!
I must say, that selling the “Leica Summilux-C PL Prime Lenses” is good move for “Band Pro” and “Red”; The Lenses are sharper, lighter, and smaller that the Arri Master Primes, is just another way of Red evolving and staying ahead of the pack. It provides Red with a wider sales force in Munich, Israel, New York and Burbank. The T1.4 Stop is just what the Doctor ordered for 48 Fps, 72 Fps or S3D all due to its need for more “Stops”. Ari still has the “LDS” (Lens Data System) and that is still a big deal.
Thales Angenieux has decided to make its ENTIRE LINE OF SEVEN ZOOM LENSES compatible with the Red Epic M X 35 Digital Camera Sensor Size; this is major achievement for a glass company, they simply “STOPPED BEATING AROUND THE BUSH” and just DID-IT. All “Three Lenses” in the Optimo 15mm to 120mm range (15x40, 28x76, 45x120) have been made with an “Image Circle” of 31.4 (Plus). The two Angenieux Optimo 24mm X 290mm (12X) and 17mm X 80 mm (4.7x) Zoom Lens have been made compatible with the introduction of a “New Hi-Quality 1.4x Image Extender”. The “Two Lenses” 24mm X 290mm (12x) and the 17mm X 80mm (4.7x), are now 35mm X 420 mm (12x), and 24mm X 112 mm (4.7x) they both eat-up “One T-Stop” of light. And their “Two Lenses” in the “Optimo DP (Rouge) Line” had already been at least 31.4 (Plus) Image Circle. Remember the Image Circle Needed for the Epic M X 35 is 31.26 (Plus).
So what “Hi-Quality Lenses” are available that cover the Full Frame of the Epic X 35 Sensor Size?; The “Leica Summilux-C PL Prime Lenses” 16mm to 100mm Lenses that are the talk of the day; The Thales Angenieux full range of “Seven Zoom Lenses”; The full range of “Arri Master Prime” (LDS) 12mm to 150mm Lenses, and the “Arri/Zeiss Ultra Primes Lens” (Non LDS and LDS) 8mm - 180mm.
S3D, all this talk about shooting at 24 Fps, 48 Fps, or 72 Fps made me think, shoot at 48 Fps or 72 Fps, you can always take out “One” or “Two” frames afterwards, but you have to “Baked-It-In” some insurance for the future. It’s just that simple. After all, “One Second” it’s just “One Second”, whatever happens inside that “One Second Window” can be adjusted for different frame rates; it’s just a “Moment in Time”. It gives you options, in 24 Fps or 48 Fps (even 72 Fps); leave it IN or OUT, you decide LATTER.
“Vaporware” The Sony CineAlta F65, 4K, 20 Megapixels camera has great “specs”, but it’s just a Prototype, this is where Red was years ago, they are playing “Catch-Up”. By the time it finally comes out, the Red FF35 Monstro should be out. However the Camera is a “Monster” it’s just too Big for what it does, and when the cost finally comes out, it got to be a lot! And all the subsequent costly “Camera Improvements”? Can you imagine that camera on Atom S3D Rig? The last published specs for the FF35 Monstro are; 6 Micron, 16 Bits A/D, 6K, 24 Megapixels, but is also not out YET! But those specs are about to change with the “Third Generation of Monstro” “Red Dragon”!
Going back to “The Hollywood Reporter” I cannot understand for the life of me, why they write about Sony’s big CineAlta F65, 4K announcement, when they know it’s “Vaporware”, and ignored Red that actually has a working camera in the field, the M 35? I guess it’s just Big Studio, Big Company, Established Company, Get in the Door, or whatever! But Red keeps on moving ahead “in spite of it all”, they put their money were it counts, in their Product. That’s what films like the Hobbit, and Spiderman, and all the other Big Hollywood films that are scheduled to come out in the future have done, looked at the product. Not to mention the past like; “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “The Social Network”, and “Fair Game” among many more film shot with the older Red One.
Red Dragon, for what I can see, from a distance, Costa Rica, it’s the; first of the New “Monstro Generation” Sensor upgrade technology for the Epic M X 35 - 5K Camera, to be released in 2012. If I understand this correctly, “Red Dragon” is the “Third Generation” of R3D sensors that can be installed on the X M 35, the FF35, the 645 and the 617.
Just to summarized, the Red Epic X 35 - 5K Camera (in no particular order) has: (1) Resolution a of 5K that translates very nicely to the 4K environment depending on the frame size; (2) Has HDRx; (3) Does 96 Fps at “Full Frame”; (4) It’s modular in its designed and can adapt to different situations and configurations; (5) The Atom Rig is a nice evolution of the Red Epic 5K Camera, and from there to the Gates Deep Atom 3D Housing; (6) RED Gunner; (7) Red Ray 4K Projector; (8) Red Dragon, don’t know much but it sounds promising; (9) Various accessories for attaching things to the Red Epic M X 5K Camera; and all the other things that we all know, announced or not.
I wished Red were to be more orderly in their release of information; You kind of have to piece together from what Jim, Jarred, Ted, Mathew, Stuart, Graeme, Deanan, and the whole Red Team release, each in their cryptic way. But, that’s Red, so you have to accept the Company and its people the “WAY THEY ARE”.
I must say; The Red Cinema Camera Company is way ahead of the pack, the PATENT issued to Red.Com Inc is just that a “PATENT” that is NOT likely to be “LICENSED” to anybody. So in my opinion, Red has clear sailing for the foreseeable future and beyond, CONGRATULATION!
Humberto Rivera
On November 9, 2010 the R3D Files were protected by a U.S. PATENT issued to Red.Com, Inc., lake Forest, California, Inventors, “James Jannard” of Las Vegas, Nevada and “Thomas Graeme Nattress” of Ontario, Canada, THIS IS HUGE, they are NOT very likely to license anyone else to use it, it means that the “OLD FILES” are not “OBSOLETE” they can be updated as the “TECHNOLOGY” advance, IN ANY RESOLUTION!
I must say, that selling the “Leica Summilux-C PL Prime Lenses” is good move for “Band Pro” and “Red”; The Lenses are sharper, lighter, and smaller that the Arri Master Primes, is just another way of Red evolving and staying ahead of the pack. It provides Red with a wider sales force in Munich, Israel, New York and Burbank. The T1.4 Stop is just what the Doctor ordered for 48 Fps, 72 Fps or S3D all due to its need for more “Stops”. Ari still has the “LDS” (Lens Data System) and that is still a big deal.
Thales Angenieux has decided to make its ENTIRE LINE OF SEVEN ZOOM LENSES compatible with the Red Epic M X 35 Digital Camera Sensor Size; this is major achievement for a glass company, they simply “STOPPED BEATING AROUND THE BUSH” and just DID-IT. All “Three Lenses” in the Optimo 15mm to 120mm range (15x40, 28x76, 45x120) have been made with an “Image Circle” of 31.4 (Plus). The two Angenieux Optimo 24mm X 290mm (12X) and 17mm X 80 mm (4.7x) Zoom Lens have been made compatible with the introduction of a “New Hi-Quality 1.4x Image Extender”. The “Two Lenses” 24mm X 290mm (12x) and the 17mm X 80mm (4.7x), are now 35mm X 420 mm (12x), and 24mm X 112 mm (4.7x) they both eat-up “One T-Stop” of light. And their “Two Lenses” in the “Optimo DP (Rouge) Line” had already been at least 31.4 (Plus) Image Circle. Remember the Image Circle Needed for the Epic M X 35 is 31.26 (Plus).
So what “Hi-Quality Lenses” are available that cover the Full Frame of the Epic X 35 Sensor Size?; The “Leica Summilux-C PL Prime Lenses” 16mm to 100mm Lenses that are the talk of the day; The Thales Angenieux full range of “Seven Zoom Lenses”; The full range of “Arri Master Prime” (LDS) 12mm to 150mm Lenses, and the “Arri/Zeiss Ultra Primes Lens” (Non LDS and LDS) 8mm - 180mm.
S3D, all this talk about shooting at 24 Fps, 48 Fps, or 72 Fps made me think, shoot at 48 Fps or 72 Fps, you can always take out “One” or “Two” frames afterwards, but you have to “Baked-It-In” some insurance for the future. It’s just that simple. After all, “One Second” it’s just “One Second”, whatever happens inside that “One Second Window” can be adjusted for different frame rates; it’s just a “Moment in Time”. It gives you options, in 24 Fps or 48 Fps (even 72 Fps); leave it IN or OUT, you decide LATTER.
“Vaporware” The Sony CineAlta F65, 4K, 20 Megapixels camera has great “specs”, but it’s just a Prototype, this is where Red was years ago, they are playing “Catch-Up”. By the time it finally comes out, the Red FF35 Monstro should be out. However the Camera is a “Monster” it’s just too Big for what it does, and when the cost finally comes out, it got to be a lot! And all the subsequent costly “Camera Improvements”? Can you imagine that camera on Atom S3D Rig? The last published specs for the FF35 Monstro are; 6 Micron, 16 Bits A/D, 6K, 24 Megapixels, but is also not out YET! But those specs are about to change with the “Third Generation of Monstro” “Red Dragon”!
Going back to “The Hollywood Reporter” I cannot understand for the life of me, why they write about Sony’s big CineAlta F65, 4K announcement, when they know it’s “Vaporware”, and ignored Red that actually has a working camera in the field, the M 35? I guess it’s just Big Studio, Big Company, Established Company, Get in the Door, or whatever! But Red keeps on moving ahead “in spite of it all”, they put their money were it counts, in their Product. That’s what films like the Hobbit, and Spiderman, and all the other Big Hollywood films that are scheduled to come out in the future have done, looked at the product. Not to mention the past like; “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “The Social Network”, and “Fair Game” among many more film shot with the older Red One.
Red Dragon, for what I can see, from a distance, Costa Rica, it’s the; first of the New “Monstro Generation” Sensor upgrade technology for the Epic M X 35 - 5K Camera, to be released in 2012. If I understand this correctly, “Red Dragon” is the “Third Generation” of R3D sensors that can be installed on the X M 35, the FF35, the 645 and the 617.
Just to summarized, the Red Epic X 35 - 5K Camera (in no particular order) has: (1) Resolution a of 5K that translates very nicely to the 4K environment depending on the frame size; (2) Has HDRx; (3) Does 96 Fps at “Full Frame”; (4) It’s modular in its designed and can adapt to different situations and configurations; (5) The Atom Rig is a nice evolution of the Red Epic 5K Camera, and from there to the Gates Deep Atom 3D Housing; (6) RED Gunner; (7) Red Ray 4K Projector; (8) Red Dragon, don’t know much but it sounds promising; (9) Various accessories for attaching things to the Red Epic M X 5K Camera; and all the other things that we all know, announced or not.
I wished Red were to be more orderly in their release of information; You kind of have to piece together from what Jim, Jarred, Ted, Mathew, Stuart, Graeme, Deanan, and the whole Red Team release, each in their cryptic way. But, that’s Red, so you have to accept the Company and its people the “WAY THEY ARE”.
I must say; The Red Cinema Camera Company is way ahead of the pack, the PATENT issued to Red.Com Inc is just that a “PATENT” that is NOT likely to be “LICENSED” to anybody. So in my opinion, Red has clear sailing for the foreseeable future and beyond, CONGRATULATION!
Humberto Rivera
