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18-50mm RED lens

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The 18-50mm f 2.8 will be marked with T-stops starting with T-3.

Jim
 
same price...

Jim
 
They're terrific news, then. The budget is short. Thank you for your care.
 
Sounds like this is a very popular kind of zoom these days. Ziess has its own with the T2.6 15.5-45mm, Angenieux has the Optimo T 2.6 15-40mm and Cooke offers a T2!! S4 15-40mm zoom. But why nobody challenges the big Optimo ? (The Zeiss Master Zoom story is specially interesting).

Why would you make your very first zoom a WA one rather than tele considering you already announced a prime set ?. Please don´t take me wrong...I love the WA angle zoom specially the Cooke but I´m intrigued about the monopoly of the 24-290.

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The good news keeps getting better. T stops on the new zoom as well? all these must haves you keep coming up with, is going to keep me in the poor-house
Thank you Jim
 
Now we can put them T vs. F stop threads to rest...thank god
 
Wow, thanks, Jim! This is great news! :)
 
Excellent move...

As I indicated on the "T or F stop" thread, offering either T or F stop marking (or both) would be very cool. If only T stop marking is offered, it's fine with me. To those setting exposure via RED's internal functions (histogram, zebra, and waveform) it doesn't really matter if a lens is marked in T stops or F stops. To those using RED One in a more traditional cine-style workflow, who choose to set exposure with light meters, T stops are really desireable.

IMO the X factor is shooting REDCODE RAW whenever possible. The ability to tweak multiple parameters of the RC RAW footage with REDCINE, including exposure levels, before sending footage to post, is huge IMO.

When it was first announced, I ordered the 18-50 SF zoom. I'll be stoked to recieve it, test it, and put it to use. I handled the 18-50 in early April when I was shooting the DSLR stills of it for my NAB mag article. I really liked the workmanship and small size/weight - a maximum mobility lens.
 
Small, flexible and sharp rocks

Small, flexible and sharp rocks

Thanks for the personal report Gibby. Its always nice to hear positive comments about build quality particularly when, no offense Red Team, there is no track record for the lens manufacturer.

I like the idea of using this lens for doco work where I want to keep the weight and size down yet still feeling like the quality of the image will suit narrative and commercial work (with proper filtration, etc).

People poo-poo the idea that the RedOne is a low cost camera just because the body is $17,500. They say the "real" cost of a RedOne based camera system is more like $50,000 -they should re-run the numbers. This $6,500 lens will cover a lot of shooting situations and you can always hire glass for specialty looks. Even with RedDrives, batteries, EVF and so on I think you can put together a terrific kit for less than the cost of a good HD B4 zoom lens.
 
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