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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Shooting in -20C

Anyone else happy about the EVF Bomb being heated? Probably an industry's first, is it? Thank you again for that one Jim. Red listens!

JanneJansson said:
hehe, that's why I have a floating survival suit on. it was no worry, the ice was at least 7 cm thick ;)
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Try coming back when it is 2-4ft thick and a few degrees warmer, and with more accumulated snow. :cheers2:

What were you shooting? I'd love to see some grabs or video.
 
We where shooting a commercial for a energy corp. That day was the shortest of the year, so we just had daylight a short time, and the sun was on the horizon during the entire shoot.

Roberto Lequeux said:
Anyone else happy about the EVF Bomb being heated? Probably an industry's first, is it? Thank you again for that one Jim. Red listens!
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Pretty cool, red designed this camera from scratch and got it so good immediately. I can't wait and see what the new cameras can do, now red have all the real world knowledge from R1.

Here's some grabs.
Merry Christmas!
Janne

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Merry X-Mas and happy holidays!

JanneJansson said:
We where shooting a commercial for a energy corp. That day was the shortest of the year, so we just had daylight a short time, and the sun was on the horizon during the entire shoot.
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I was loving the sunsets in Fargo a few weeks ago. You had a good hour of magic with about two more or so of VERY low sun. Gorgeous long shadows cast onto the snow by the bare trees. Not once during the the whole day did the sun get too high. Must help with continuity. I also keep thinking that it will really help that we'll be able to shoot a little bit of our night stuff every day and spread it out, while working 12hs a day, and mostly avoid night shoots, which will only be necessary based on other factors like locations and background.

Nice colors. Thanks for sharing those grabs. Please post motion if/when you can.

What filters did you use?
 
Martin Weiss said:
Last week I also shot in -20C, the only "trouble" I had was that the LCD cable became completely stiff, which was quite funny to see.
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Jepp me too :) I was worried I break it off, so I really avoided bending the cables. But I have not seen any cable handle cold in a good way. If a cable is bending in -20, they probably are like jello on normal temp. ;)
 
Janne,

The images are beautiful. In 2000 I filmed a movie all across Canada in similar conditions as we told the story of the game of Shinny (a slang for non professional pick up hockey games). We had 25 shoot days in similar conditions and at times were on think ice and very thick ice (7 feet in the arctic).

Seeing these shots reminded me of that shoot.

Wish the RED was around then....
 
We also just shot in Michigan. Our solution was to gaff tape hand warmers to the body and cover all with custom cut, silvered emergency blankets. We did the same for the EVF...it looked like a Chipotle burrito. For the drive and battery we used the warmers with self adhesive and simply stuck them on. The LCD looked pretty funny with two "pads" stuck on the back. I'd post pictures if I still had them.

We never had a problem all day and the camera performed without a hitch. We even strapped the camera to a tree and shot straight up the trunk with the snow falling...simply gorgeous.

RED + Master Primes + 20 degrees F = some winter wonderland goodness.
 
Peter, how did the adhesive fair? Did it leave residue? I know different warmers will use different stuff, but I have been thinking about only using the self adhesive ones for speed, just don't want to deal with any permanent damage. I have had nasty sticky messes to clean up with "goo-gone" after using gaffer tape in extreme heat (black surfaces under direct sun in California or Florida)... would the heat from the warmers do the same?
 
just finished a feature film in Chicago...we shot for 3 weeks out there and the only problem I had was the EVF...that thing does not like the cold. Our fix was to ask wardrobe for a sock and cut the end off. Put the sock around the EVF, then grab 4 of those hand warmers and insert into the sock. This worked pretty good. We were also shooting onto CF cards. The coldest it got for us was 2 degrees. Most of the time it was around 10-20 degrees F. The assistants would bring the camera body and lenses and batteries in at night to charge and keep from freezing over night on the truck.

When the EVF got cold, before we did the hand warmer sock combo, it didn't work very good at all. wrong colors and all sorts of crazy things going on inside that thing.
 
..it's in sweden now! -40C (-40F) Dalarna. Dam, all thise cooooold winds from Russia in rollin down to Europa.
 
One problem I had was with the Anton Bauer block batteries charging. They have to be a certain temperature to charge, I think it is above 30f, but they perform well in low temps (10 to 20 f) even without being heated.
 
Yesterday I spent a few hours at -20C (-4F).

Camera, Batteriers (GMP 190WH) and the 7" LCD performed flawlessly. Again, the cables were stiff, but the only minor problem were cold feet. Hope that will be resolved in the next build :)

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Beautiful images Martin, I had -21c outside my house this morning, too busy editing to test my RED today though.
 
we just tested our red at about -15 degrees and had following problem: we used a red brick + red hdd + a common sachtler toplight. it worked as long as we did not record, but right after pushing the record button the camera switched off and we were not able to switch it on again for a couple of minutes. without recording the camera worked fine. any ideas why? if we do the same inside everything is fine..

oh, i forgot to mention that it only switched off when we were recording and then switched on the toplight.
 
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