Brice Ansel
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Hello dear Red User.
Years ago I was hanging around on the DVX user forum, planing to buy a HVX 200.
That camera was so popular that they were frequently out of stock.
While waiting to be available, I get caught into the section "other cameras", and Red story did start…
The adage "4k in the palm of your hand, obsolescence obsolete" was born…
A 1000 dollar deposit and a couple of years later, our Red M arrived.
It was obvious that the marketing sentence "4K in the palm of your hand" didn't work for me, as I'm 55kg.
Anyway, I just had 4 fantastic years working with our Red M, and even didn't bother upgrading the M sensor to the X.
Fact is at Red they are a bunch of perfectionist!
The Red's performances and form factors didn't satisfy the team I guess.
So is born the Epic form factor, and the 5K format.
If Epic was the first camera from Red, we would have never bought it.
It was out of our budget in those time.
But because Red digital cinema company has another way of doing business,
as first customer base, we had the opportunity to stay in the fast Red train, by trading our good old Red M.
When thinking about that not so far past, remembering Mr Jannard saying to his customers: "It is going to be a wild and long ride."
Now I understand better what he meant by that.
I was planing to buy a 1080i camera and now I'm with a 5K sensor camera who fit in the palm of my hand.
Yea I know they are two different beast, but hey! I don't own a car.
So as of today, watching the Epic X, and remembering about the old adage "4k in the palm of your hand, obsolescence obsolete".
Me think it apply perfectly to the Epic now.
My hat off to all the people at Red who work hard for a dream, and satisfying their customers.
Our experience is we feel like Red have treated us so far as equal as the super duper customer P. Jackson.
I wish all the company had the same sense of treating their customers as unique individual like Red does.
No regret being a passenger in the Red train.
My only regrets are those moments at IBC when I never had enough guts to say hello to Mr Yannard and Mr Land.
I missed that opportunity twice in three years time thought.
Personally those tools, call Red M and now Epic X did feed my soul.
And the Epic definitively exceed what we were expecting at first on DVX User.
To conclude that too long fanboy speech:
When we received the Red M, I ran a test on insects with Nikon lenses.
More than four years later, a new camera (Epic X), and new lenses (Leica)
It was time to run another insect test.
Here, I used the formats 2K HD- 2K WS- 1K HD- 1K WS
Every time at the max frame rates I could use.
180° shutter all the way.
1KHD and 1KWS were performed at 5.1 compression ratio.
Which mean their is more room to improve the 1K result from that test.
No color correction, just a basic look using RCX and RLF.
No music either because it is not the time for editing yet.
Anyway the imagery talk for itself thought.
So, while watching, put some cool music on, and I just hope you'll enjoy it.
Best
B.
Years ago I was hanging around on the DVX user forum, planing to buy a HVX 200.
That camera was so popular that they were frequently out of stock.
While waiting to be available, I get caught into the section "other cameras", and Red story did start…
The adage "4k in the palm of your hand, obsolescence obsolete" was born…
A 1000 dollar deposit and a couple of years later, our Red M arrived.
It was obvious that the marketing sentence "4K in the palm of your hand" didn't work for me, as I'm 55kg.
Anyway, I just had 4 fantastic years working with our Red M, and even didn't bother upgrading the M sensor to the X.
Fact is at Red they are a bunch of perfectionist!
The Red's performances and form factors didn't satisfy the team I guess.
So is born the Epic form factor, and the 5K format.
If Epic was the first camera from Red, we would have never bought it.
It was out of our budget in those time.
But because Red digital cinema company has another way of doing business,
as first customer base, we had the opportunity to stay in the fast Red train, by trading our good old Red M.
When thinking about that not so far past, remembering Mr Jannard saying to his customers: "It is going to be a wild and long ride."
Now I understand better what he meant by that.
I was planing to buy a 1080i camera and now I'm with a 5K sensor camera who fit in the palm of my hand.
Yea I know they are two different beast, but hey! I don't own a car.
So as of today, watching the Epic X, and remembering about the old adage "4k in the palm of your hand, obsolescence obsolete".
Me think it apply perfectly to the Epic now.
My hat off to all the people at Red who work hard for a dream, and satisfying their customers.
Our experience is we feel like Red have treated us so far as equal as the super duper customer P. Jackson.
I wish all the company had the same sense of treating their customers as unique individual like Red does.
No regret being a passenger in the Red train.
My only regrets are those moments at IBC when I never had enough guts to say hello to Mr Yannard and Mr Land.
I missed that opportunity twice in three years time thought.
Personally those tools, call Red M and now Epic X did feed my soul.
And the Epic definitively exceed what we were expecting at first on DVX User.
To conclude that too long fanboy speech:
When we received the Red M, I ran a test on insects with Nikon lenses.
More than four years later, a new camera (Epic X), and new lenses (Leica)
It was time to run another insect test.
Here, I used the formats 2K HD- 2K WS- 1K HD- 1K WS
Every time at the max frame rates I could use.
180° shutter all the way.
1KHD and 1KWS were performed at 5.1 compression ratio.
Which mean their is more room to improve the 1K result from that test.
No color correction, just a basic look using RCX and RLF.
No music either because it is not the time for editing yet.
Anyway the imagery talk for itself thought.
So, while watching, put some cool music on, and I just hope you'll enjoy it.
Best
B.
