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Eric Ulbrich

Eric Ulbrich

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So I don't know if this is cool with the RED people or not. If it isn't feel free to delete away! I wanted to post some of my pics from the day at RED-Studios Hollywood. Just a few shots of cameras and such. Again, if anyone on the RED team doesn't want these up no harm intended.
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It was a bitchen evening! It was great to see everyone.

It was also great to see the form-factors of the Epic and Scarlet. The Epic with a bunch of pro modules in studio mode is a similar length to the red1, and a bit shorter. which is cool.

Most impressive was the MX sensor!!!!! I was blown away! It kicks serious Ass! We got to see and play with R1s with the MX. I cannot wait for that sensor in my cameras. It has WAY BETTER low light sensitivity, way less noise, deep inky blacks, and I was told, a bunch more dynamic range (no testing was done at the event). The versions we saw went to ISO 6400!

I am very stoked about the new kick-ass Red chips/cameras coming our way!

Prost! to Jim and the gang!
 
fuckin' incredible. I've never seen a camera with such an impressive noise floor. Its amazing to see the image in the viewfinder vs the actual luminance value of the scene. ASA 800 flawless, ASA 1250 Superb, ASA 4000 also superb and even ASA 6400 is quite impressive. Think like an 800 ASA filmstock, nice and gritty. Therese something about the filmic quality of it. The image actually feels like film.
 
And this is exactly why the next Red Day should be held in Sydney :biggrin5:

Nice! I wish I was there.
 
ISO is so important now it's crazy to see Red grab this bull by the horns. They stepped up on ISO, plain and simple
 
Tom Lowe said:
ISO is so important now it's crazy to see Red grab this bull by the horns. They stepped up on ISO, plain and simple
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Big time on that for sure...
 
All Protos. The only working models were existing R-1's with M-X sensors. I was told they had most of the bits in them tho.
 
Pawel Achtel said:
And this is exactly why the next Red Day should be held in Sydney :biggrin5:

Nice! I wish I was there.
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Wishful thinking my friend! I'll send a full report home after the Feb event. :001_tt1:

I'll run my FLIP dry and feed you as much as I can online.
 
The low light stuff was amazing! The Leo shot with the match and cigar was unbelievable. The blacks in the R8 shot, unreal..... The MX is awesome.
 
The footage on Sony's new 4k projector was amazing, especially the Leo shot. My jaw just hit the floor. It was said it was shot @ 2000, but we checked the metadata on one of those takes which was said it was @ 1000. They said the redcine-x software still had some glitches, so the meta reset could have been wrong on it. Regardless, even @ 1000, it was pretty breathtaking. Finally we can feel safe shooting moody & dark lit scenes without worrying about too much noise.

Playing with the cameras with the MX upgrade and using Red's new false color that only shows where you're blowing out highlights and where the noise is, there seemed to be noise there, but nowhere near the R1. The R1's were connect to NEC monitors through the HDMI output, so I'm not sure if there was induced noise there. The noise levels seemed to change dependent on the monitors we were looking at.

The 800 ISO seemed to be pretty accurate with the new RedColor view mode, which is a different way to view the live image where Rec709 or RedSpace would have been. (Both are now gone, but we were assured that RedColor was fully Rec709 compatible. We had a light meter and measured the 2 banks lighting the motorcycle, but a grey card would have given us better and more accurate results. You could pretty easily tell how RedColor was pushing the curve by flipping between RAW & RedColor with the spot meter on. The shadows & lower mids showed only slight pushing in the neighborhood of 2-5 IRE while the highlights had a difference of 20+. Then in the extreme highlights, they were back to being similar IRE's again. So the mid to high levels of the image are being pushed, then rounded back down. If that makes sense.

Also, switching to Tungsten did invite more noise in the image than daylight, which could be clearly seen in the new false color. It would have been nice to turn up one of the dozen or so Briese's in the room (used for mood lighting) to see what it could do under more tungsten light.

One of the more exciting things was the demo for the new RedCine and being able to control it and the Lift/Gamma/Gain window using the tangent wave. We'll be picking one of those up immediately.

The Epic's and Scarlet's form factors were impressive and were smaller and lighter than I had thought they were. Handheld is going to be a million times better now. None of the models were functioning, so I hope the weight was accurate.

The Bomb EVF was working on one of the R1's, so they're backwards compatible. They're about a third the size and weight of the current EVF's. I hope they'll start selling those soon. There's a few ways to mount them and seemed to hold their positions well.

All in all, a really great day. Thanks to Red for it and all the presenters. The future looks very promising and I'm looking forward to it!

-CJ
 
The new REDCine X is equally great. Should be released within weeks. Lim
 
Great photos, thanks for sharing! The MX sounds better every day, and the Epic assemblies are just badass. Exciting times!
 
CJ Roy said:
One of the more exciting things was the demo for the new RedCine and being able to control it and the Lift/Gamma/Gain window using the tangent wave. We'll be picking one of those up immediately.

-CJ
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Guys thanks for sharing info and photos.

Also my Tangent Wave is waiting to give try out to the new RedCine-X together with getting soon R-1-M-X upgrade hopefully.
 
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