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Steve Gibby
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Thanks for all the suggestions and encouraging words! Those of us who love cameras and technology, which is about all of us on this board, really get amped about the chance to test drive new camera systems. This is going to be interesting indeed!
I’ve asked several other RED reservists with cameras in the first batch to step up and donate their cameras and time to the testing sessions. I’m happy to confirm that we now have four RED One cameras to test at the “L.A. REDTest” (new name for the testing sessions): #8 (mine), #13 (Billy Summers), #17 (Steve Tammi), and #19 (Blair Paulsen).
Jeff, Gavin, Chuck, and Steve will be flying into Los Angeles from other areas of the country, at their own expense, and that is deeply appreciated.
A big thanks to these guys for stepping up to help us out. Having multiple cameras allows us to separate the team up into work groups with different setups, objectives, and task lists. Bottom line is that we can cover a lot more testing ground with four cameras than one camera, and it gives each of the team members more “stick time” with the cameras. It also helps us define if performance and characteristics are just within one camera or if all the cameras share the same attributes.
Gavin Greenwalt (im.thatoneguy on RED User) has stepped up to offer his green screen and VFX skills for the testing. That’s a whole additional dimension of the testing that will add to the results we are able to obtain. Very cool indeed!
Another RED User member, Andrew Benz, thought of, and volunteered to shoot and edit a behind the scenes documentary on the testing sessions, complete with quick interviews with the team members and fly on the wall footage of the testing work. I have accepted that generous offer.
I want to thank Eric Widding of Birger Engineering for stepping up to the plate with the Birger adaptor as he mentioned earlier today. That also gives the team another really valuable dimension to the testing.
A few weeks ago Brian Goff volunteered to send a RED version ActionCam over to L.A. from Switzerland for us to test a RED One on. We will likely have other stabilization units available also. Beyond Charles Papert’s skills as a DP/cinematographer, which we’ll count on, he also has excellent stabilization unit skills, as does Ralph Oshiro.
I’ve also asked lens expert Chuck Colburn to join us, with the stipulation that he leave his dog Jake up in Orygun! He’s coming down for the testing. It will be great to have another longtime veteran on the team.
The L.A. REDTest won't be a camera shootout pitting RED One against other camera systems or against 35mm film. We only have 2 days to test, camera owners need to get their cameras out on real-world productions, and we felt it would be most productive in these first independent RED One tests to concentrate on testing RED One itself, and to use the time to drill down as deep as we can on them. Later on I'm sure someone else will create a shootout scenario and other types of testing, but L.A. REDTest will simply concentrate on testing the performance of shipping RED One cameras.
I hope I didn’t leave anyone out in this update! If I did, I’ll cover their contributions in the next one I post. A big thanks to all these busy professionals for donating their time, talents, and equipment for the testing – and also a huge thanks to the studio where we will be testing for those two days. The big payback for the team, and by proxy the RED User community, and interested persons throughout the motion media industry, is that this independent L.A.REDTest should provide us all with an accelerated knowledge curve for the uses and parameters of shipping RED One cameras.
I’ve asked several other RED reservists with cameras in the first batch to step up and donate their cameras and time to the testing sessions. I’m happy to confirm that we now have four RED One cameras to test at the “L.A. REDTest” (new name for the testing sessions): #8 (mine), #13 (Billy Summers), #17 (Steve Tammi), and #19 (Blair Paulsen).
Jeff, Gavin, Chuck, and Steve will be flying into Los Angeles from other areas of the country, at their own expense, and that is deeply appreciated.
A big thanks to these guys for stepping up to help us out. Having multiple cameras allows us to separate the team up into work groups with different setups, objectives, and task lists. Bottom line is that we can cover a lot more testing ground with four cameras than one camera, and it gives each of the team members more “stick time” with the cameras. It also helps us define if performance and characteristics are just within one camera or if all the cameras share the same attributes.
Gavin Greenwalt (im.thatoneguy on RED User) has stepped up to offer his green screen and VFX skills for the testing. That’s a whole additional dimension of the testing that will add to the results we are able to obtain. Very cool indeed!
Another RED User member, Andrew Benz, thought of, and volunteered to shoot and edit a behind the scenes documentary on the testing sessions, complete with quick interviews with the team members and fly on the wall footage of the testing work. I have accepted that generous offer.
I want to thank Eric Widding of Birger Engineering for stepping up to the plate with the Birger adaptor as he mentioned earlier today. That also gives the team another really valuable dimension to the testing.
A few weeks ago Brian Goff volunteered to send a RED version ActionCam over to L.A. from Switzerland for us to test a RED One on. We will likely have other stabilization units available also. Beyond Charles Papert’s skills as a DP/cinematographer, which we’ll count on, he also has excellent stabilization unit skills, as does Ralph Oshiro.
I’ve also asked lens expert Chuck Colburn to join us, with the stipulation that he leave his dog Jake up in Orygun! He’s coming down for the testing. It will be great to have another longtime veteran on the team.
The L.A. REDTest won't be a camera shootout pitting RED One against other camera systems or against 35mm film. We only have 2 days to test, camera owners need to get their cameras out on real-world productions, and we felt it would be most productive in these first independent RED One tests to concentrate on testing RED One itself, and to use the time to drill down as deep as we can on them. Later on I'm sure someone else will create a shootout scenario and other types of testing, but L.A. REDTest will simply concentrate on testing the performance of shipping RED One cameras.
I hope I didn’t leave anyone out in this update! If I did, I’ll cover their contributions in the next one I post. A big thanks to all these busy professionals for donating their time, talents, and equipment for the testing – and also a huge thanks to the studio where we will be testing for those two days. The big payback for the team, and by proxy the RED User community, and interested persons throughout the motion media industry, is that this independent L.A.REDTest should provide us all with an accelerated knowledge curve for the uses and parameters of shipping RED One cameras.
