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C300 and EPIC OLED VF Story

Justin Marx

Justin Marx

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I was shooting some B-ROLL for an HGTV show yesterday afternoon on Miami Beach, and a guy comes up to me with his C300 and starts a conversation..

Anyway he starts bragging about his viewfinder and how bright it is.. I just got my new OLED viewfinder and was a bit hesitant to look through his for the fear that it by some feat would be better???

WHAT THE F*$K WAS I THINKING!!

The C300 viewfinder is a piece of SHIT, and I almost felt bad after all of his BRAGGING showing him the OLED BOMB EVF!!! It was like someone turned the lights. color and sharpness on..

Anyway, I was soooooo happy with the performance of the OLED yesterday.. It really was finally the "BOMB".. RED really needs to take the other one off of the website.. It's DUNG compared to the OLED.
 
How is it better exactly compared to the already awesome BOMB EVF? I just shot a 2 day festival in the heat and granted the blacks were a little milky, still an awesome piece of kit...
 
It's like going from SD to HD, colors, clarity and brightness are miles ahead..
 
What did he say when he looked in your EVF?
 
Nick Gardner said:
How does it compare to the Alexa finder?

Nick
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I used the Alexa once, and really don't remember.. I remember the viewing size being bigger then the Bomb though.. When RED decides to make another EVF they need to up the viewing size.. It's bordering being too SMALL for me personally.
 
Anyone know anything about the EVF upgrade program? Are the parts backordered? Mine's been in for a month now, and I can't wait! :)
 
I have a few in also... Taking for ever !!!!

Your though Justin, I had a look through one at NAB... and did not even know it existed. I shit myself when I put my eye to it, because I thought it was a LCD EVF and the 3 I had back at home were crap !... until they said, no no... its the new OLED model. I couldn't wait to get home to order them.

The image was amazing... and compare to the ARRI ALEXA view finder.. (which I looked through 2 minutes late at the ARRI booth... The RED OLED EVF is a lot sharper and richer.... oh and cheaper.
 
and compare to the ARRI ALEXA view finder.. (which I looked through 2 minutes late at the ARRI booth... The RED OLED EVF is a lot sharper and richer...
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Hmmm. I might have to get one then. My question is how come the bomb looked better on the Red one than on the epic? Are they ever going to fix the contrast issues?

Nick
 
Nick Gardner said:
Hmmm. I might have to get one then. My question is how come the bomb looked better on the Red one than on the epic? Are they ever going to fix the contrast issues?

Nick
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I don't know what issues you speak of. I have had nothing sharp well defined blacks, and wonderful clarity and color.

"... amazing piece of kit..." (tm RC Podcast)
 
I may have to update my firmware. I haven't done it since I got my epics, so I am probably due ;-)

Nick
 
Paul Ellington said:
I don't know what issues you speak of. I have had nothing sharp well defined blacks, and wonderful clarity and color.

"... amazing piece of kit..." (tm RC Podcast)
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You must be the one person with a good viewfinder then.
 
Justin Marx said:
It's like going from SD to HD, colors, clarity and brightness are miles ahead..
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This hasn't been my experience. The flicker I used to see on my LCD viewfinder are no longer there but the current release firmware doesn't allow the brightness controls to work. I've never had anyone put their eye to it and notice that it wasn't the original Bomb EVF. The chip chart that flashes during boot does look good though.
 
Paul J Steinberg said:
This hasn't been my experience. The flicker I used to see on my LCD viewfinder are no longer there but the current release firmware doesn't allow the brightness controls to work. I've never had anyone put their eye to it and notice that it wasn't the original Bomb EVF. The chip chart that flashes during boot does look good though.
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You might want to have it checked out then.. If you can't tell the huge difference between the two, something is wrong.
 
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