Recent content by Bill Goehring

What started out as RED ONE #348 and turned into EPIC-X #1984 has passed to other non-Nikon hands, so it's time to pass along my trusty Optitek Prolock Nikon mount. As D Fuller recently posted, "This is the best non-electronic Nikon mount available for Epic or Scarlet. It has a very solid...

For some time, I've been having trouble saving RED Operation Guides to my desktop for reference when internet is unavailable. Some of my previously saved older Ops Guides open fine and PDFs from other sources save and open fine. I have deleted my previous Adobe Reader and have upgraded to the...

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33199_7-57366319-221/why-4k-tvs-are-stupid/?ttag=fbw Previous Home Entertainment magazine chief editor Geoffrey Morrison is calling bullshit on 4K TV displays in a c/net opinion piece.

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We were out on a shoot over the last couple of days monitoring via HDMI with a cheap HD LCD when the client asked if we could use their Panasonic BT-LH1710W 17" HD-SDI monitor. I'm not sure if that is the right product number, but it was a Panasonic 17" that looks similar to the photo for this...

I understood that I was to receive an email from Red informing me when my number is up to return my RED ONE (#348) to swap out the old audio board and CF reader/writer component for the new ones. Did I miss something? Has anyone received notification and swapped out their boards? Is...

I've had my camera now for a couple of weeks and am finding that I get about a 5:1 attempt:success ratio on cold (inside room temp) boots. The ratio improves as the camera warms up. Is this what others are seeing? The camera came with Build 13 and I have upgraded to 14, though that doesn't...

I'm expecting my camera in the next wave and am trying to clear up a question about my order before it is finalized in a couple of days. Has anyone mounted a RED ONE to a Sachtler tripod via a "quick-shoe"? Can the quick shoe be mounted to the bottom plate or is a cheese plate necessary...

So I saw "American Gangster" last night and I swear I saw the boom mic dip into the frame somewhere between ten and twenty times. Each time it happened, it pulled me out of the story, slapped my suspension of disbelief in the face, and reminded me, "oh yeah, this scene is being played to a...

Hey Erik, Stephen Pruitt says that you mentioned in a conversation with him that you're convinced "most people who end up buying the Nikon mount will eventually want to buy the Canon version." Does this mean that you think Nikkor AF-S optics are inherently inferior to Canon optics in general...