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Night shoot / Lens test / amazed !

Mark Toia

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Ok, I know that some of you (old Pro's) may get sick of me posting my silly tests, but I get so many emails from the young and up incoming each day asking questions, that I find it easier to just share my own personal tests on the forum.

I'm about to shoot through a couple of nights for a TV commercial in crazy Jakarta... and I never go into night shoots without some lens and camera tests being done, especially in certain locations that I know are pushing the latitude friendship.
Red cameras are "ok" in low light, but not awesome..... not compared to the c500... However.. !


I shot this particular shot out the window of the car last night on the way back to my hotel.. a very dark section of the road. (and through a tinted window). I was just curious to see what could be retrieved. A silly test I know... , but what the hell.
In the 5 inche touch screen monitor I saw buggar all. (the tinted window did not help). I get to the hotel and plug the SSD card into reader, turn on RCX PRO and look into the shot... It's almost black except for the lights in the food stands. First thought was, there is know way we are getting anything out of this one. So I started pushing and pulling this r3d around and managed to actually get alot out of it.


I'm still very very amazed with what you can actually get from this sensor. (may not be as good as the c500 for hi ISO shooting) But if this could be gotten out of a standard EPIC, I can only just imagine what the Dragon sensor will see.

Good night... :)


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Maybe we should join up and do a RED tour?

You'll do practical photography. I'll do linear light and all the geeky shit.

You in?

Jim?

:-)
 
Welcome to the future ;-) I have been shooting epic at 1200 asa and sometimes 1600 for some time now. Really, at a t2 and 1200 iso, there is hardly a situation you can't shoot in. I am pretty comfortable pushing the camera pretty hard. I did some tests similar to this on anamorphic last week, and was pretty pleased. wide city scapes, big industrial sites with minimal lighting, and even when there was noise, I didn't find it as distasteful. Have fun ;-)

Nick
 
Russ Fill said:
+1 please share the settings. And what frame rate??
I love test like this to also share with my friends that say well the Epic cant do this... Thanks for another argument point Mark.
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I'm going to have to +1 this as well.
Being relatively new to the Red workflow, I'd love a little insight.

Plus, it would be fun to hush some of the doubters at work! :)
 
Please keep posting your tests because yes, us young guys, LOVE THEM! Your time investment sharing your work and test is greatly appreciated!
 
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