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Would it be possible to transfer over the technology for some amazing digital cameras? I think this could be possible and yet another revolution could be born...
 
What I'd love to see is a RED director's viewfinder - a Mysterium sensor, a PL mount and an LCD for composition. Oh, and a CF slot.

Could store JPEGs but it would be so cool for the director to do really meaningful reccies and storyboards.
 
And while I'm at it...

What about some RED baseball caps :red_bandana:
 
A still camera with the Mysterium sensor in it would make no waves in the still camera world.
 
Bettsy, I commented on the idea that Scarlet could have an optical viewfinder for that exact purpose. But what your describing is far more interesting....

A true pocket camera with the purpose of framing and creating storyboards and certainly would be an interesting tool.

KO
 
Just having a still camera with a PL mount is enough for a lot of folks. Would an Average Joe buy a RED PL still camera over a top of the line Nikon? Probably not. But filmmakers would buy them specifically for framing with the PL lenses they'll use, especially if you could use the Cooke /i system with it. Only thing that the camera really needs to be able to do is take pictures and do timelapse work at equivalent RED camera resolutions (4K, 3K, 2K), how hard would that be to make?
 
A directors viewfinder is used sometimes for a mere minute, while selecting the lens. I doubt a DP will want to take a still image of an unlit set while the crew is working and still in the shot. And once we are lit and actors are on set, I doubt they want to wait to take a still image, the DP would rather open the RAW file later, and just shoot it now. The Still Photographer can get all the same shots with gear available today.

I think the old-fashioned Stick will prevail, and the Viewfinder you are referring to is available and called a "RedOne',
 
Hi,

I use my old Nikon D70 as a directors finder, works very well. I don't need to use PL lenses as the focal length written on the Nikon lens works very perfectly. No conversion factor as an 18mm lens is always an 18mm lens

Stephen
 
Jack_Felis said:
Just having a still camera with a PL mount is enough for a lot of folks. specifically for framing with the PL lenses they'll use, especially if you could use the Cooke /i system with it.
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UNINFORMED NONSENSE

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- the only PL modified still camera in existence I know of is the Half frame Pen F, a film camera:

http://www.thedopshop.com/product_info.php?cPath=32&products_id=69

B: Why would you want to shlep around a set of expensive Primes or a large Zoom when an inexpensive wide Range automatic still Zoom will do just fine? You need the pictures only for reference and the quality difference of the glass is moot. A Nikon D70's sensor, for example, is very very close to the Red's and with a simple action in Photoshop you can create all the Aspect Ratios you need pixel accurate. Also, if you're using the Nikon lens, all the lens info is recorded as Metadata. I have been using still cameras as Directors Viewfinders/Scout Finders for about 4 years and it works great.

Why would you post UNINFORMED NONSENSE like that and raise the already puny signal-to-noise ratio on this board?

Long gone are the days where you'd go to a tech scout with a stick with videotap and a thermoprinter thank god.
 
its all uniformed nonsense when you look at the big picture. Give the guy a break...

Although your common sense shines.
 
How about this? I've heard complaints that still cameras are megapixel crazy. They keep trying to cram more and more photosites onto a very small sensor. If Red wanted a competitive advantage in this industry, it would need to build a DSLR with a very large sensor, but the same number of megapixels. Very large photosites = tremendous sensitivity and dynamic range.
 
florianstadler.com said:
I would just love it if less speculation, guessing and conspiracy theorizing happend on this board and instead it would become a well of information and exchange between fellow filmmakers.
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All fair enough but the thread was about a RED SLR. I think you need to take it in the spirit with which it was started - half tongue in cheek and if you think it's rubbish, just don't open the thread. You don't have to read every post you know...

Seriously, you guys talking about using a Nikon DSLR(for instance) for reccies etc are dead on. I've just had a look at the D700 and can't love it because it's full frame - not cine compatible.

Nonetheless, I still want the hat :bleh:
 
Stephen Williams said:
Hi,

I use my old Nikon D70 as a directors finder, works very well. I don't need to use PL lenses as the focal length written on the Nikon lens works very perfectly. No conversion factor as an 18mm lens is always an 18mm lens

Stephen
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Can you explain further what your saying? doesn't the D70 have a smaller aps-c sized sensor? I know that might be comparable to the red's sensor, but I know you also shoot a lot of film, I thought that an 18 on a 535 had a different fov than on a d70.
 
florianstadler.com said:
UNINFORMED NONSENSE

A:
- the only PL modified still camera in existence I know of is the Half frame Pen F, a film camera:

http://www.thedopshop.com/product_info.php?cPath=32&products_id=69

Why would you post UNINFORMED NONSENSE like that and raise the already puny signal-to-noise ratio on this board?
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Hi Florian

With the greatest respect to you, Steve Morton made a Leica M series to PL mount adaptor, there was a discussion on CML.
http://www.cinemods.com/

My best

Stephen
 
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