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What is EPIC?

Craig W. Bickerstaff said:
I'm not talking 4k specifically but rather affordable cinema cameras.

At the moment I can only remember that one with the hand crank that started with a k, 10 may be an exaggeration if one were to research my claim but I also think the idea that Most big budget movies are being shot on epic is also an exaggeration.
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Kinetta.
 
Jannard said:
EPIC is being built by an American company that was initially called a scam.
EPICs are built in the USA (California actually).
EPICs have more resolution than any digital motion capture camera... at 120fps.
EPICs have more dynamic range than you need natively... and HDRx if you need more. More than any other camera including film.
EPIC is the size of a Hasselblad... which shoots one frame a second BTW.
EPIC is upgradeable. Actually... it is also the upgrade.
EPICs are shooting most every major budget feature film for every studio.
EPIC is shipping. It is not a figment of the imagination. Almost 1000 EPICs are in the wild.
EPIC is not finished. And EPIC customers don't bleed when things get better. Most every upgrade is free. As is REDCINE-X.
EPIC footage looks like 65mm film on the big screen (without grain).
EPIC costs less to own than any other professional motion capture camera.
EPIC is the least expensive professional motion camera to shoot. Thanks to REDCODE and SSDs.
EPIC is the least expensive and easiest professional motion camera to post.
EPIC is the smallest and lightest professional motion camera. By a lot.
You can extract "Getty worthy" still images from an EPIC motion stream.
EPIC images are IMAX capable.
I like EPIC. I love the EPIC development team.

Jim
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Epic is the future!*

The quality of the images this camera delivers and the concept of having a modular design is really something! All this for a price that beats every competing camera company with similar specs.*
RED's hairy ambitions and plans regarding future products, upgrades etc, proves to me that they have balls and really mean business.*
I am confident that I have bet my money on the right horse here, and love to be a part of the family :-)
 
Jannard said:
The amount of smart contributors here on Reduser surprises and inspires me every day. Someone posts a question and someone else posts the answer, a chart or graph and on we go. It really is a phenomenon.

Jim
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Its more than a phenomenon; its an online University.
 
To me the wait has been worth it. I started with a budget for a Scarlet, now I'm in the position to target an Epic-X!
 
Jannard said:
The amount of smart contributors here on Reduser surprises and inspires me every day. Someone posts a question and someone else posts the answer, a chart or graph and on we go. It really is a phenomenon.

Jim
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Besides my EPIC-M camera, this is one of the things I love the most about RED, I had a problem with my camera and right away I got contact info of Brent, John, Nick, Deanan, they contacted me, I didn't know who to contact or who to go to, but them jumping in to help me fix the problem and figure it out was really impressive and then I did feel part of the family. I'll never forget that, no other company is like this. Keep it up RED, you are AWESOME.
 
Jannard said:
Sorry... I don't buy that. There weren't any other companies that were saying that they were releasing a 4K camera in 2006 when we announced. We were alone at the time.

I don't think you can name one company, let alone 10.

Jim
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalsa_Origin
http://www.visionresearch.com/Products/High-Speed-Cameras/Phantom-65/

Then again in 2006 there were really only 4-5 serious digital cinema camera companies. I don't think you could name 10 companies releasing 1080p digital cinema cameras in 2006 either.

Sony: Genesis/F35, F23 and F900 (1080p)
Dalsa: Origin (4k)
Vision Research: Phantom HD (1080p) Phantom 65 (4k)
Thompson GrassValley: Viper (1080p+)
Silicon Imaging: SI2K (2K Raw)
Arri: D20 (2.8k)

Red: One (4k Raw)
 
Pardon me, had to edit that. Was all positive, but in hindsight, a bit out of place.
 
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Mark A. Beal said:
Kinetta.
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There was also the Dalsa Origin. 4k but about the size of a refrigerator (with off-board storage). They weren't available for sale either. Even the rental was unaffordable at $3,000/day.
LONG LIVE RED!
 
Jannard said:
...EPIC images are IMAX capable...
Jim
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I could snot agree more with everything you said on post #1, however I really do agree on he above, cause I know for fact its also true,
at this point I simply just don't have any idea what to expect out of the "RED DRAGON" ... ;)
 
Epic is an evolution from the revolution started by the "SCAM" called RED.

Thanks to a man call JJ, and a small group of rebellious rogue film makers.

You are now free to shoot "IMAX" size movies at any budgets.

Coming soon to a theater near you in Digital REDCODE.

;-)
 
Paul Kalbach said:
There was also the Dalsa Origin. 4k but about the size of a refrigerator (with off-board storage). They weren't available for sale either. Even the rental was unaffordable at $3,000/day.
LONG LIVE RED!
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I think you could fit 15 epics in one Origin. :)
 
And if you take Epic pps (that's pixels per second) and the Dalsa's pps, the Epic has about a 6x ops factor! So that's 15 Epics, each with 6x ops, wow - that's a 90x ppspv ratio - pixels per second per volume!

Graeme
 
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