Paul Leeming
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- Osaka, Japan
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- www.visceralpsyche.com
Hi all!
I'm very pleased to bring you what I believe is the first RedUser.net footage shot in Japan!
I want to begin by saying a big THANKYOU! to Jim, Ted and crew for creating this dream camera. It's been a long journey to this point, watching others with cameras shoot amazing footage and not having one of our own to give something back. Well, tonight's the night we come full circle. I hope we can do you proud.
So.... on with the show!
On Sunday, Visceral Psyche headed to Shibuya for our first day of Japanese Red testing. We met up with Kaku Ito of Musetex and Takashi Chiba of Salt and Pepper Pictures to conduct some day/night tests for a magazine article and to test the various workflow options.
Suffice to say that we were blown away by the images we produced (and I've been a convert for a long time!). This camera is a game changer folks, pure and simple.
For info, all the following shots were created using only the Red 18-50 f2.8 CF lens with a Sigma DG 72mm UV screw-in filter on the front of it (no matte box).
We shot to both CF and the RedDrive with zero dropped frames for the day (when doing handheld). Build 13 was used throughout and ISO was set to either 320 or 640, never higher. I actually pulled some shots back to 320 and below in post to minimise grain, which works a treat. If you are concerned about noise, just process at 320 or lower and bring up the levels again in grading via curves for a very clean final image.
You can view the quarter size thumbnails directly below, or you can click on them to download full size 16bit PNG files which are 30-35MB each (highly recommended for pixel peepers!).
Note these are graded shots, done in Photoshop from TIFF files exported unprocessed from RedCine (build 82). Sharpening has been judiciously applied where necessary but not all images warranted it.
I tried to make these pictures look as natural and film-like as possible. No doubt there are plenty of other ways to grade them but I wanted to demonstrate the image quality over artistic choice.
Anyway, enjoy!
Paul
I'm very pleased to bring you what I believe is the first RedUser.net footage shot in Japan!
I want to begin by saying a big THANKYOU! to Jim, Ted and crew for creating this dream camera. It's been a long journey to this point, watching others with cameras shoot amazing footage and not having one of our own to give something back. Well, tonight's the night we come full circle. I hope we can do you proud.
So.... on with the show!
On Sunday, Visceral Psyche headed to Shibuya for our first day of Japanese Red testing. We met up with Kaku Ito of Musetex and Takashi Chiba of Salt and Pepper Pictures to conduct some day/night tests for a magazine article and to test the various workflow options.
Suffice to say that we were blown away by the images we produced (and I've been a convert for a long time!). This camera is a game changer folks, pure and simple.
For info, all the following shots were created using only the Red 18-50 f2.8 CF lens with a Sigma DG 72mm UV screw-in filter on the front of it (no matte box).
We shot to both CF and the RedDrive with zero dropped frames for the day (when doing handheld). Build 13 was used throughout and ISO was set to either 320 or 640, never higher. I actually pulled some shots back to 320 and below in post to minimise grain, which works a treat. If you are concerned about noise, just process at 320 or lower and bring up the levels again in grading via curves for a very clean final image.
You can view the quarter size thumbnails directly below, or you can click on them to download full size 16bit PNG files which are 30-35MB each (highly recommended for pixel peepers!).
Note these are graded shots, done in Photoshop from TIFF files exported unprocessed from RedCine (build 82). Sharpening has been judiciously applied where necessary but not all images warranted it.
I tried to make these pictures look as natural and film-like as possible. No doubt there are plenty of other ways to grade them but I wanted to demonstrate the image quality over artistic choice.
Anyway, enjoy!
Paul
