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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

NAB 2013..

Jim, Thanks for continuing to think big even while responding to our incremental needs and requests. Looking forward to it...
 
"Live lens", formerly "Smart Filter" tech front layer on Dragon sensor for 18 to 20 f-stops of dynamic range???????
 
Gavin Greenwalt said:
Medium Format + Lightfield + Huge color gamut + HDR (native) @ high FPS so that you can change your motion blur/shutter as meta data by blending frames.

Then exposure, focus, depth of field, framerate and motion blur are all meta data. That means that everything would be meta-data. A true RAW workflow. No more NDs. Just rely on the HDR. No more special effect filters, just simulate pro-mist etc based on HDR data. Want Anamorphic bokeh? Add it in post. Want anamorphic lens flares? Simulate it in post from the HDR data. Want to look like Kodak Vision 3? Use the huge color gamut to perfectly emulate it. Want 48fps? Pull out the sub-frames which add up to each 48fps frame. Want 60fps? Pull out every nth frame for 60fps.

Eventually add extreme resolution and multiple-camera interpolation and you can reposition and zoom.

Just strap on a wide angle lens and set your zoom in post. Need to get closer? Reconstruct 3D Geometry from the lightfield and dolly the camera in and out in post as well.

Next step after that: Volume capture. Super dense 3D point cloud of the whole set.
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Hahahaha, I love this post
 
Jannard said:
The powers at be at Apple think I'm nuts. :-)

Jim
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People think I'm nuts too, goes with the territory of being RIGHT. When people are wrong and they think they are right, they tend to think we are the ones wrong.

Shame about Apple, I predicted the shift Apple needed to make to avoid a decline in the IPhone, and since then they have moved it over to a software oriented product. Not saying too much more, as I don't want to give away the plot. They started neglecting their bread and butter, professional/Mac Pro and IMac lines too. The iPhone is looking absurdly outdated now, and this ban against the the Nexus appears more bizarre than that against the Galaxy Tab, you need glasses thicker than mine to mistake one for the other. Not to mention the thing they are trying to protect is practical minimalistic design cues, that everything boils downtown, similar to devices before apple, look at the PDA's and devices from the 80's, Startrek in the 60's, and the Amstrad PDA, therefore obvious and prior art aswell, it does not matter what a company wants to force to happen in court, it is copyright design issues, not patenting. What is being protected is/something that shouldn't be protect able and old, something old taken into a new context. Now you can buy/rent music cheap on other newer services. When people don't buy the iPhone, application/tunes store and new TV, as much they will need those desktop sales and professional users to give them more credibility. I am still waiting for a cutting edge IMac going on four years, and the greatly improved one that was supposed to be this year, might be next ( and it appears it might not be much better than what you can get in features elsewhere). Everything is going stale to me in this respect.

I have my own stylish design and technologies proposal for a phone that can beat IPhone, and various revolutionary Apple technologies and designs are similar to previous designs of mine, I always have been ahead.
 
Robert Hart said:
"Live lens", formerly "Smart Filter" tech front layer on Dragon sensor for 18 to 20 f-stops of dynamic range???????
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I missed this, I forget when I first came up with this idea, but was planning on doing a lens adaptor doing this in 2004 or 3. The active lcos was too complex so was going to use simple cheaper systems instead. Eventually I converted the idea over to a variable neutral density filter and large optics for extra light gathering. As anybody from those projects may remember, I was looking into a new mirror lens system with normal aperture blur scalable to the size of the set, or stage, if desired (wind issues) as part of my single surround camera initiative that replaced multiple camera setups and allowed most camera movements to be done in post. Still a long way to go for the industry.

Ahead.
 
The new variable density filter started from closer to 100% light transmission, and might still be worth a patent.
 
I'm just glad I have my RED MX and money saved in the bank. Because by the time NAB 2013 comes around, I will be ready for whatever RED brings my way.

I must say, though, that as fast as technology changes, we as end-users must continually assess our NEEDS versus our WANTS. And to that point, I am sure RED MX will fulfill my NEEDS for several years to come, perhaps even a decade. But, I am nonetheless extremely excited about what lies behind the "RED curtains" and hope that my wants turn into needs very soon !

Thanks Jim ;-)
 
Jim...bring us a Burst Mode for Scarlet 240fps (somewhere in between 2K and 5K for a few seconds) and the gap between our followers will become toooooo big for them....
 
Gavin Greenwalt said:
Medium Format + Lightfield + Huge color gamut + HDR (native) @ high FPS so that you can change your motion blur/shutter as meta data by blending frames.

Then exposure, focus, depth of field, framerate and motion blur are all meta data. That means that everything would be meta-data. A true RAW workflow. No more NDs. Just rely on the HDR. No more special effect filters, just simulate pro-mist etc based on HDR data. Want Anamorphic bokeh? Add it in post. Want anamorphic lens flares? Simulate it in post from the HDR data. Want to look like Kodak Vision 3? Use the huge color gamut to perfectly emulate it. Want 48fps? Pull out the sub-frames which add up to each 48fps frame. Want 60fps? Pull out every nth frame for 60fps.

Eventually add extreme resolution and multiple-camera interpolation and you can reposition and zoom.

Just strap on a wide angle lens and set your zoom in post. Need to get closer? Reconstruct 3D Geometry from the lightfield and dolly the camera in and out in post as well.

Next step after that: Volume capture. Super dense 3D point cloud of the whole set.
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All the above plus, RED gives us full price trade-in for our Epics since this has obviously made them obsolete. '-)

EDIT: Unless they can do this with a module. :emote_popcorn:
 
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