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Announcing the S.A.L.T. (Southland Alternative Lens Test)

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Excellent lens test .... well done Evin and the SALT team

Excellent lens test .... well done Evin and the SALT team

We had the pleasure of hosting Evin and some of the manufacturers at our place on Friday and seeing the results of the SALT test.

There was two and half hours of footage covering virtually every professional lens manufacturer and lens type. The tests were really well devised to show up the characteristics of each lens and how they respond to differing lighting conditions and focus points. The CA test was particularly illuminating (excuse the pun).

Don't want to pre-empt the results and insights gained (Evin will publish those when he's ready) but would like to make a couple of preliminary observations:

1) Evin and the SALT team in combination with the lens manufacturers did a truly excellent job and have provided a very valuable service to the RED community ... its a joy to be part of a filmmaking community that takes its work so professionally and tries its hardest to share its expertise and knowledge.

2) Without going into any details, I think everyone is going to be pleasantly surprised at how well ALL the lenses did and how good the lower costs ones held up against their more expensive brothers.

Evin and I discussed the possibility of having a SALT open house day here at The Lot in West Hollywood .... seeing the images in a tightly calibrated 2k DLP screening environment really allowed us to see the detail in all the tests.

If people are interested, drop Evin an email and we'll try and organize something on a Saturday in the near future.

In the meantime, big round of applause to Evin and the SALT team ... great work guys!

Neil
 
Neil and Evin,

I'm sure there are many of us that would be interested in viewing the footage at your facility--thanks for putting that possibility out there.
 
Hi Evin,

Just a suggestion:

Publish only the footage links, for the moment.
In the end, anyway, what is "better" is a matter of personnal taste.

Antoine
 
Holy @#@...that's a lot... :)

The only practical solution could be frame grabs ?

Antoine
 
Hi Brook,

Not to put pressure, but it's been quite a long time.
Is there a problem ?

Just to know if i should wait for this comparo.

Thanks

Antoine
 
Antoine Fabi said:
Hi Brook,

Not to put pressure, but it's been quite a long time.
Is there a problem ?

Just to know if i should wait for this comparo.

Thanks

Antoine
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Yup! We are all waiting to see the results. Orders are pending. Patience is running out... why the mysterious delays?

What's the embargo all about? Politics? Spill the beans my man!

M
 
I know it's taken a while guys but there is a political component to this.
It's almost there we're just waiting on one more piece to fall into place.
The first and most important/enlightening section is already written and formatted on the forum it's just in a secret place waiting to be revealed.
 
I think thats what we all guessed with the delays -a few poor results and a manufacturer will be crying foul: was the lens a bad example, poorly set up and not direct from the manufacturer?

Some might feel the goal posts have been moved with a new emphasis on image circle...

It would be great to have Red primes available at red centres around the world for testing; at the moment they seem not to be available. More 'politics - schmolitics'?
 
Antoine Fabi said:
Hi Brook,

Not to put pressure, but it's been quite a long time.
Is there a problem ?

Just to know if i should wait for this comparo.

Thanks

Antoine
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Not to put pressure, but I'm gonna put pressure.

Calm down guys. Wait patiently for their results and when[ever] they deliver them, thank them graciously for their hard work.
 
Lee Saxon said:
Not to put pressure, but I'm gonna put pressure.

Calm down guys. Wait patiently for their results and when[ever] they deliver them, thank them graciously for their hard work.
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There is a precedent with L.A.R.T. regarding waiting patiently. In the end the results were good for those who participated and no one else. Those who waited paitiently got nothing useable out of it because the info took so long to be made available. S.A.L.T. appears to be heading in the same direction. I'm not holding my breath, although at this point it is mute for me. I've already taken delivery of the RPPs. One bright point is that I saw that Evan posted he'll be getting his RPPs possibly by weeks end. So I guess they performed well enough for him to get them.
 
I am interested in David Mullen's opinion of the lenses. Will that be included?
 
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