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TEAM RED....

There's still a couple of Red cynics in my circle of friends, so I'm forwarding that photo to them.

It 's amazing when you look at this photo how it could affect competitors. The intention was to show the
Red family in California, but it unintentionally must scare the other companies to see just how "real"
you are. This is a heart warming photograph, dare I say overdue.
 
I gotta say... that's an awful lot of people to employ just for a scam...

-sc
 
Some times being small is a lot more efficient. There is a pretty well established theory that the human brain is hard wired to deal with about 150 people. You will see this in many tribal cultures as the sort of max point for interpersonal relationships. After about 150, people start to loos the close connectivity to each other. The founder of Gor tex actually utilized this social max out point when building factories. They would only put 150 parking spaces, and when people started parking on the grass, they knew it was time to build another factory.
 
Harry Zallen said:
This proves that innovation is tantamount to success.

The companies that Jarred brought up all seem to have stifled innovation for the sake of profit. Where does this bring us as audience members, consumers, and filmmakers when we have a voluntarily stagnant entertainment industry? Well, that's when we end up becoming content over things like a 1080p "Full HD" standard.

We are STILL just catching up to film in terms of resolution and imagery. Ever see a 70mm print screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey[/I] or Patton? They blow everything I've seen projected digitally right out of the water.

We have yet to gaze at an entirely new spectacle, something beyond anything we have already experienced. Who's going to make such things possible? RED, and any other company willing to put innovation at the forefront.

Jim and the RED Team deserve their success 100%.
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I agree.

Yup I have. Empire leister square many years ago. I also have a few feet of some diapositves that were used in one of the more notable FX sequences (mainly for painting the star backgrounds out by hand). So, I think in some cases it appears in terms of digital capture that the most recent RED offering/Epic of course “dragon” can cross the divide to achieve things that are equivalent to “70 mm” and beyond.

I agree former digital projection would never be able to compete with a really good dispositive. HOWEVER…The the new laser projection systems that Jim has been talking about have been described as appearing as a dynamic Cibachrome. (also in 3d). Because its scanning based an extremely high “resolution” is possible.

We are small company doing some things that are absolutely unique and world class (from some pretty deep R&D mainly software and a bit of HW), we get our wings pretty soon and go from there. So regardless of how amazing some of the things we might do might be, we are dependent on pretty significant components from other companies. Or rather what the “industry” in some cases chooses to deliver and release at that time. It can be very frustrating “waiting” for acceptable projectors, processors, playback devices, image acquisition devices and so on to come up to snuff for what we need to do (we can’t bridge all of the gaps on our own). Jim/RED team on the hand, say something like “F*ck that sh*t”… and have the ability to be VERY proactive and bring to bear an amazing will and capability to say, right this type of digital projection system is Not acceptable what can we do about that?... and they bring together various elements that have been known into a system that functions like no other. They don’t say let’s choke everything down onto Blue Ray, they say “we don’t want to be limited” we NEED REDRAY… and so on. In that respect they very much have the will to control their own fate and technologically do what REALLY NEEDS to be done but beyond that there is a drive to always deliver the best (as they see it).

It’s interesting that RED seems to be in a situation where it is no so dependent on the “other’s”… own glass, own ground breaking camera/acquisition/coding technology, own recording and playback, projection and much else besides. The fact that RED has a real face and real people behind it doing the right things is really important to see especially now that RED is forced to do the right thing with a seven ton Bavarian Elephant that we don’t mention…


In reference to 2001 my father worked with Stanley and was good friends/friends of the family for many years. Stanly was always very demanding (of course) but he always insisted on the best and of course at the same time pushing the boundaries as far as he could (without compromise). I have no doubt if Stanly was still alive (today) he would be in Jim Jannard’s hair constantly (his beard I guess), demanding this and that, and why can’t he walk out of the factory with a prototype laser projector under his arm and so on. He always understood why it is important to embrace new technologies and push them to their absolute limits. If you spend even just a few minutes with Stanley he would grill you for every crumb of technological information that he could possibly get (he was extremely knowledgeable up to the end) and to see how he could use these ideas to his advantage. Amazing really. AND I have no doubt either that if Stanly was alive today he would be shooting EPIC and beyond and would not be worrying about “70 mm”.

The fact that Jim Jannard through RED user is willing to listen to our demands as “little Stanleys” is very remarkable and unique in all the world.

Cheers,

Eric

With regard to the 400 , it’s the old thing… size is not important, it’s what you do with it…(he, he)..

Clearly REDTEAM is one of the most capable groups on the planet right now. Fantastic…
 
Looks and feels like a giant family photo - which I guess it is.

Someone mentioned Apple. Uh, no. The equivalent Apple photo would include thousands of haggard, stressed Foxconn workers. I see no one like that in this photo. In fact, except for Jim and Jarred deservedly posing in front, the whole scene looks incredibly non-heirarchical. It wouldn't surprise me if some of the custodial staff were in the front row, or if Ted was hiding in a back row.
 
I zoomed in on the pic to play a quick game of "Where's Jannard?". I lost.

Thanks to everyone at RED. I wonder if you are all camera junkies like the rest of us.......
 
That picture reminds me of a good song!


Living life is fun and we just begun to get our share of this world's delights
high hopes we have for the future and our goal's in sight
no we don't get depressed here's what we call our golden rule
have faith in you and the things you do you won't go wrong oh no this is our family tune

We are family I got all my RED sisters and brothers with me
we are family get up everybody and sing
we are family I got all my RED sisters and brothers with me
we are family get up everybody and sing
 
Jarred Land said:


There are 360,000 employees at Panasonic, 170,000 at Sony and 140,000 in the Japanese Army.

There are only 400 employees at RED.

The goal in 2005 was to build the best camera in the world.

In 2011, we succeeded.

EPIC was conceived, designed, prototyped, and manufactured in California. Not Germany. Not Japan. Not China.

It is the 1st time that the best camera in the world has been made in the USA in over 100 years. By a team of 400. Not 100's of thousands.

We are very proud to be shooting the biggest budget movies this year.. as well as the smallest.

Just a few...

Spiderman 4
The Hobbit
Prometheus
Contagion
The Muppet Movie
Oz
Elysium
Jack the Giant Killer
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Great Gatsby
Underworld 4
I hate you, Dad.


Then add the best fashion photographers in the world shooting covers for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, W, Interview, Esquire, Vanity Fair... and a ton of others.

The best movies and the best stills... same camera. Never done before in the history of cameras.

The RED team is complete. We don't have a few of the best horses in our stable..... we have all the best.

We have the best product, and by far the best customers.

We are not a scam. We are not "beta". We are here. Now.

We challenge the industry to respond.

Please.
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I think we are missing some things here.
Are we comparing people verses products too?
How many products these Japanese companies will produce with this number of staff and how many RED is producing?
Are we comparing hundreds of products produced by thousands of people with hundreds producing one product?
Dont take my comment as negative, but I think the number comparisons are not justified.
 
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