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MY Epic was recently stolen at gunpoint while I was in the middle of a shot! I've been looking deep into my soul regarding how to spend my insurance money. Replace the Epic-Dragon with a new Epic-Helium? Scarlet-Weapon? Well, I'm at this point seriously interested in moving back to...

This may not be the right place to post this question. if, so my apologies in advance... Well, I’ve got a problem that I am scratching my head over with the 2009 Mac Pro I use with Resolve. 6 months ago I went through a bunch of upgrades to keep it humming, and avoid buying an entirely new...

I'm planning on pulling the trigger on a upgrade of my Resolve system's GPUs. Currently in my 2009 Mac Pro (running 10.8.5, upgraded to 5,1 -thanks Mr.Blackstone) have a Q4000 for GUI, in CUBIX: 2x GTX285s for GPU, along with RRocket & SAS-HBA. Considering moving to: in Mac Pro: EVGA 6gb...

I'm about to start a project with a mix of animation and live action. I would love to do both with my Epic, but since there is no "Stills" mode on the Epic its a kludge. However, I really don't want to deal with mixing 5D still sequences with Epic footage. The main problem is for animation...

I just recieved my new ET EVF mount for my Epic-M. There are a lot of solutions out there for mounting the Bomb EVF to your Epic. I've been using a heavy-duty noga arm so far, as the others out there have not been perfect for me. ET has finally answered the call! Their new EVF is exactly...

Wow, I watched "Atlas Shrugged, Part 1" last night on iTunes and was flabergasted at just how bad a movie it was on all levels. Particularly the cinematography which looked like a filmschool project and had a very "video-y" quality. When watching it I thought it must have been shot on a F900...

If you have one and want to sell it, or have been thinking of selling it, pm me and we can make it happen right away. Cheers, Paul

I will be posting images and frame grabs very soon. My Epic is out on a rental this week but I'll have time to post images this weekend. Just as a teaser, a couple of days ago in a friend's rental shop, we did a few very quick and dirty -non-scientific- comparisons of the Illumina 35mm...

At the risk of stating the obvious, I just have to get something off my chest here. So many people are stepping into the world of Red/Epic with the false belief that with Epic's great dynamic and low-light capability and HDRx, they can now shoot without any thought to lighting. I've been...

I was on a commercial shoot this weekend with my Epic-M. Latest firmware (1.6.24). Mostly shooting 2.4:1/300fps, for a sporting equipment company. Footage looked fantastic. The "yellow" dot error when recording was virtually eliminated by setting the half-down record button to inactive (BIG...

As many are starting to shift from FCP to Premiere Pro (myself included) we are seeing a major issue with moving projects from PP5.5 into Davinci 8. This has to do with PP only talking FCP XML v4, and Davinci 8 only talking FCP XML v5. And using FCP 7 as a intermediary is problematic due to...

REVIEW Part 1 REVIEW Part 1 OK, so now I’ve had a chance to review the footage I shot. It was all shot on an Epic-M 5k with RC 6:1. First let me qualify this information by being very up front in that I am not a lens tech. I’m a DP. Normally when I’m evaluating a lens or set of lenses, I...

I spent a good part of today evaluating the latest rev of the Illuminas and comparing them against the Cooke Panchros. Why those two? For no other reason than they are the two sets I'm evaluating for purchase. I was able to put both sets up on a projector and then in a testing bay to see how...

I'm planning to test a set of illuminas and Panchros sometime in the next few weeks. I know where the Illuminas are coming from, but was wondering if anyone on the West Coast (better yet, SF Bay Area) has a set of the new Cooke Panchros that we could use.

As far as I can figure out, only one set of the new Cooke Panchros has made it's way to the West Coast so far. Just wondered if anyone has had a chance to work with or evaluate them yet?

Ok, so maybe not a ghost exactly. I'm shooting a feature late spring/early summer in SF with two Reds (date dependent upon camera shipping of course). Due to a unique situation, I am forced to shoot one of the days footage this weekend on a Sony F900R. The footage will of course not be...