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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

A bit of RED history...

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Our very 1st RED ONE prototypes, Boris and Natasha, were just completed. Peter Jackson had offered his interest from the beginning.

I called Peter to ask him who he would recommend to shoot some tests in Hollywood of our 1st cameras. His response was "fly to NZ and we'll do the tests".

So off to NZ we went. Peter shot "Crossing the Line" in 3 days. We showed it at NAB a week later.

Soderbergh saw "Crossing" and told us he "was all in" to shoot Ché on RED. That was months before we shipped the 1st customer's cameras. Ché was shot on prototype RED ONEs.

Soderbergh told Fincher. Fincher shot "The Social Network" and the "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" on RED. Fincher told Wolski (Pirates). Wolski told Schwartzman (Spider-man). Wolski also told Ridley (Prometheus).

The Hughes Bros. saw "Crossing" and shot "Bool of Eli" with Don Burgess. Don then shot several features, including "The Muppets" and "Flight" on RED.

Jeff Crowenweth shot with Fincher... then shot "Hitchcock".

And on it goes... word of mouth. Feature after feature.

Jim
 
KETCH ROSSi said:
Word of mouth always is the best thing, you are not selling anything, people are just making recommendations based on their experience, the best!!
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This is how it should work. It works for RED - it works for me too.

Cheers to JJ & RED for a well deserved success!
 
Early adopters among the higher professionals must have given the RED team verification of the concept and spurred you on to do better, faster. But I believe you would have been just as successful if you had not had those celebrity endorsements... only it would have taken longer.

Some of your customer base may have bought because of who was using and testing your cameras but most of us bought irregardless of who was using and testing RED cameras. I think for me, knowing that the people you mentioned were early adopters raises my esteem for them more than it serves to make the RED cameras more attractive.

But I can see where a camera owner would benefit from dropping those names when trying to land a gig for their camera.
 
Great bit of history there with some legendary characters. Not that its worth noting in the history books (yet ;) but "crossing the line" also was the very moment i pulled the trigger. Look forward to seeing this timeline evolve Jim. Have a good weekend. Haskell.
 
C.H.Haskell said:
Great bit of history there with some legendary characters. Not that its worth noting in the history books (yet ;) but "crossing the line" also was the very moment i pulled the trigger. Look forward to seeing this timeline evolve Jim. Have a good weekend. Haskell.
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Me too, as I am sure was the case with many. I walked out of that theater and ordered my first of four Reds.
 
what, no milk girls? what brief RED history could possibly be representative without the milk girls?

one picture sold me two cameras and changed the course of everything.
 
Meryem Ersoz said:
what, no milk girls? what brief RED history could possibly be representative without the milk girls?

one picture sold me two cameras and changed the course of everything.
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That's when you know you've arrived... when there's so much history that one of the most talked about segments on Reduser gets left out of the history timeline. '-)
 
I really enjoy it when you post stories like this. Inspiring stuff.
 
Mouth publicity is the best way to reach the market.Now I know why RED didn't do any advertisement for there product...........Great camera and Great people behind it,.............Go head sir we customer behind you for the marketing..............
Thank you
Sunil Prem
 
Meryem Ersoz said:
what, no milk girls? what brief RED history could possibly be representative without the milk girls?

one picture sold me two cameras and changed the course of everything.
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For me it was the "Crossing the Line" trailer at 1K! That incredible, never before seen in the digital world texture of the sand, the costumes and the faces... WOW! I still watch it every now and then!

I know it's been said countless times, but it would be nice to be able to watch this somewhere as part of the RED history.

Cheers!
 
The smoking milk girls and those army car pics gave me the RED addiction. I was sitting zooming in and out of those frames for hours and tried to explain to all my flame clients how amazing it was.... some showed some interest some did not, Some are still in the industry and some are not... :)
 
Its alsoa case of once you actually try it....... You're hooked.

Also......anyone ever run milk girls through RG3/RC3? Wonder how it looks through a modern post pipeline.
 
Björn Benckert said:
The smoking milk girls and those army car pics gave me the RED addiction. I was sitting zooming in and out of those frames for hours and tried to explain to all my flame clients how amazing it was.... some showed some interest some did not, Some are still in the industry and some are not... :)
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I remember - it was unreal...
 
Great History
 
Meryem Ersoz said:
what, no milk girls? what brief RED history could possibly be representative without the milk girls?

one picture sold me two cameras and changed the course of everything.
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Yeah, the images of the oakley watch and porsche were nice, but the milk girls are what really sold me.
 
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