Jonas Rejman
Well-known member
With the new PL mount, the RED Cinema Company stated, that they will replace all of the 100 initial cameras.
Do I understand it right, that there will be 100 RED "alphas" going back to the shelfs of the RED headquarters?
If so, I strongly plead not to disassemble or "refabricate" all of them to later serial numbers.
I hear the outcry of the RED believers, waiting in the line, but I think, that this is more important.
Some of these machines should be preserved for the generations to come. I see them in art museums, in museums of technology around the globe, behind bullet-proof glass exhibited in filmschools, admired by students of film history.
I see Mark L. Pederson, as a grandfather showing his grandson the RED #6 in the New York Technological Museum. The little is asking in amazement:
"And you were really among the first guys, who was shooting with it?" "Yes, this is the first commercial available model and it shoot 2 feature films." And the eyes of the grandson will be filled with silent pride.
I see some day Mr. Jannard's Prague model exhibited in the National Technical Museum in Prague, the very museum I visited dozens of times as a little boy. And when my grandson will ask me about the name, I will answer:
"Well, this great man, just loved this great city." - And I will be proud as well.
We relive in this century the digital analogy of what happened when Mr. Edison presented his Kinetograph around 1880. In my eyes Mr. Jannard is the Edison of the 21st century in the cinematographic area. He is writing the history of film right now.
The value of those first 100 cameras cannot be determinated. Every owner of those is the very first believer in the RED project, those who trusted a vision, that was too radical to be believed. These machines are unique, because the experience with them lead to a redesign. They are the first step in the RED ONE walk of fame. The are the RED ONE ones. Therefore, they should get the attention, they deserve.
I may point out something, that is maybe obvious, but as an European who takes the history's lessons serious, I do not want to get those "historic" jewels of technology lost in the stream of the ongoing and breathtaking development.
Do I understand it right, that there will be 100 RED "alphas" going back to the shelfs of the RED headquarters?
If so, I strongly plead not to disassemble or "refabricate" all of them to later serial numbers.
I hear the outcry of the RED believers, waiting in the line, but I think, that this is more important.
Some of these machines should be preserved for the generations to come. I see them in art museums, in museums of technology around the globe, behind bullet-proof glass exhibited in filmschools, admired by students of film history.
I see Mark L. Pederson, as a grandfather showing his grandson the RED #6 in the New York Technological Museum. The little is asking in amazement:
"And you were really among the first guys, who was shooting with it?" "Yes, this is the first commercial available model and it shoot 2 feature films." And the eyes of the grandson will be filled with silent pride.
I see some day Mr. Jannard's Prague model exhibited in the National Technical Museum in Prague, the very museum I visited dozens of times as a little boy. And when my grandson will ask me about the name, I will answer:
"Well, this great man, just loved this great city." - And I will be proud as well.
We relive in this century the digital analogy of what happened when Mr. Edison presented his Kinetograph around 1880. In my eyes Mr. Jannard is the Edison of the 21st century in the cinematographic area. He is writing the history of film right now.
The value of those first 100 cameras cannot be determinated. Every owner of those is the very first believer in the RED project, those who trusted a vision, that was too radical to be believed. These machines are unique, because the experience with them lead to a redesign. They are the first step in the RED ONE walk of fame. The are the RED ONE ones. Therefore, they should get the attention, they deserve.
I may point out something, that is maybe obvious, but as an European who takes the history's lessons serious, I do not want to get those "historic" jewels of technology lost in the stream of the ongoing and breathtaking development.
