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RED EPIC low light tungsten Latitude test_TOIA

Mark Toia

Mark Toia

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Hi All,

Testing is going well with the EPIC. (Not that I need to be testing it as it's already proved to be more than I expected)

The killer test of all cameras is low light tungsten latitude tests.

This test was performed on my desk looking into the back of the room exposing on a projected image on the back wall.
Small 12volt tungsten lights were on very very low, almost candle light levels. Dark in other words!

I shot the image dark on purpose exposing only exposing for the screen on the back wall... So everything else was dark in the room, pretty much as it looked for real.
So the test was to see how much useable information I could retrieve from it, How much noise would come through, how much will the tungsten light effect the image.... etc etc..

Surprise surprise... More information than any of us thought we could ever retrieve, noise was there but completely useable image.
Tungsten issues of old are now just a myth.

I've done this same test on 35mm in the past (and other unnamed digi cameras) and there was no way I could push 500T to this level without grain like ROCKS! appearing and the blacks going muddy as hell.

Anyway... life goes on. :)

Link. (VIEW FULL SCREEN HD)
http://vimeo.com/24495392

Sharings caring
 
Umm... okay, that's pretty un-fricking-believable. I'm totally blown away by how much the wall could be separated from the objects in the background and how much detail was retained on the objects themselves. Thanks for contributing, Mark.
 
Awesome! One would hope you'd never have to use this but it's great to know it's there anyway. Pity the camera is so big and heavy. And expensive. And so lacking in features. And has such low resolution. And such a small range of frame rates...
 
Jim....

I fear that I maybe seen these days as a RED NUTTER!!!!!! But in fact I'm a Latitude, Resolution, quick work flow, fast on set shooting, NUTTER!!!!!...
I post these tests only because I really feel people should know what cameras like this are really capable of.

Being open now... If Apple, ARRI, Canon, Coke, Pepsi, NASA, JOE BLOW inc... or who ever can make a camera that can answer all the things I need (as above), I'd buy it. Plane and simple.

I was actually a NIKON man through and through many years ago in my Professional photography days, So much so that NIKON gave me gear for free so I was seen with there brand at all the F1 Gp's, tennis, etc etc... and at the time it was great equipment, Canon came out with a far more user friendly camera, but the AF Lenese they made at the time kicked nikons arse.
I jumped ship and Nikon were furious.

I'm a slut for technology and am only loyal to those points above, not the name of a brand... Seriously... If JOE BLOW CAMERAS in the ukraine came out with a camera that kicked your ones arse... I'd jump ship like a rat on fire!

Your Vision, your team, your company, your product is the only one even close to my expectations. So I'm going to throw my money at you as fast as you can build me the gear. The EPIC is fricken awesome with second place about 2 years behind it...

I'm not going to be easy on you though, because I still need a couple things addressed (which I'm doing in the background with your amazing technical people)

Answer to your question is yes :) Supremely happy.
 
Christian Munoz D said:
Do not ask that!! Playback question will come up....
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hahahaha... Yes sorry Christian, Your obviously not on set as much as me. :)

I hate dragging around a video play back & entourage.. They just slow me down and cost me a 1000 - 2000 bucks a day+food+travel+accom+perdiums+Assistants+insurance....

Not every job needs a circus surrounding it.
 
Shane Betts said:
Awesome! One would hope you'd never have to use this but it's great to know it's there anyway. Pity the camera is so big and heavy. And expensive. And so lacking in features. And has such low resolution. And such a small range of frame rates...
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Yeah, it's terrible.. hahahahahahaha....
 
You and your cameraRGB :) Awesome test, the detail on that droid against the back wall is amazing. I want my X yesterday.
 
Mark Toia said:
hahahaha... Yes sorry Christian, Your obviously not on set as much as me. :)

I hate dragging around a video play back & entourage.. They just slow me down and cost me a 1000 - 2000 bucks a day+food+travel+accom+perdiums+Assistants+insurance....

Not every job needs a circus surrounding it.
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huuuu! wrong, right and right!

Wrong: I spend more time on set than you...My average set is different though (Natural History). 24/7 sometimes for only a few days, other times 24/7 for a few months.

Right: Yes lack of playback slow down everyone.

Right: Absolutely... Not every job needs a circus surrounding it.

Great test. Thank you for your generosity ;-)

BTW: What is the story of the droid in the back?
 
Christian Munoz D said:
huuuu! wrong, right and right!

Wrong: I spend more time on set than you...My average set is different though (Natural History). 24/7 sometimes for only a few days, other times 24/7 for a few months.

Right: Yes lack of playback slow down everyone.

Right: Absolutely... Not every job needs a circus surrounding it.

Great test. Thank you for your generosity ;-)

BTW: What is the story of the droid in the back?
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Ok you win :)

The Droid is something I picked up in Thailand.
7 foot tall solid steel parts all made from car and motor cycle parts.
Ways a Ton !!! There's a 7 foot Terminator in the other corner. They flank the cinema screen. Just Movie crap I collect from around the world. I've got a bad habit of buying sculptures modern and very old.
 
That is a great test. Thanks for posting this. I was just editing a piece I shot with the light from a snowcat as the key light in a blizzard at night. Shot at 2000 iso and it looks great. Epic is unreal in many facets. After seeing this test I am glad I did not sell off all my tungsten stuff when the Red first came out.
 
KETCH ROSSi said:
Nice Mark, glad you are at last an Happy Epic M Man... ;)
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Thanks Ketch.
Its the first camera I have ever owned that I did not need an instruction book to shoot it.

I swear it's easier to use than my 5d. ( lots of canon bodies for sale here at the moment)
Crazy how shit swings around :)
 
Mark Toia said:
Thanks Ketch.
Its the first camera I have ever owned that I did not need an instruction book to shoot it.

I swear it's easier to use than my 5d. ( lots of canon bodies for sale here at the moment)
Crazy how shit swings around :)
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He he, I felt exactly the same when I first shot with it... ;)
 
Yeah, as much as I love the R1, the Epic footage has blown me away. I hit that "M inquiry" button before Reducation was half over. Love this test, considering all my constant sources are tungsten :)
 
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