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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 :)

Complexity...

Just out of curiosity (and I've never seen it mentioned here): Approximately how many people are employed at RED? 50? 100? 250?
 
Peter Franzen said:
Just out of curiosity (and I've never seen it mentioned here): Approximately how many people are employed at RED? 50? 100? 250?
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What people? Only magic pixies & killer robots here!
 
Richard Darge said:
Yea Jim, that's all fine and dandy... but will the new Epic cameras have an option to shoot in H.264 ?????????? It's either that or nothing for me..
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Richard, I suspect and hope your tongue was firmly planted in cheek with that one! Come to think of it, I'd love to have a new Ferrari to drive my kids to school.:w00t:

Jim, just as my Grandmother 20 years ago was amazed that my 250 page master's thesis was contained on a single floppy disk, I need not know the inner workings to appreciate the technical achievement in such a creative tool. In fact, the more mind-blowing the achievement, the more humble I am to have an opportunity to own one... someday (and I hope soon!)

Cheers!

Tim
 
Alan Skinner said:
As my RED One increases in capabilities, I am quite content to wait for my Epic-X.
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I'm not mad, but I'm not content either! :smile5:

sing to the tune of "Money for Nothing"

"I...Want...My...Ep... ic ....x"
 
In 2012 I'm thinkin... Feature Film: The Jim Jannard Story " The Epic of Red Oakley"
I'll go. Anyone comin? Cal L
 
Jannard said:
For those of you that can't quite comprehend the complexity of what we are trying to do... consider that there are 70 boards and 11,000 pieces on an EPIC-X (with modules).

Just food for thought while you are waiting...

Jim
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How would you like to be in the prototype review meeting when the lead engineer announces: "Uh... We have a floating ground issue..."
 
Cal Lundgren said:
In 2012 I'm thinkin... Feature Film: The Jim Jannard Story " The Epic of Red Oakley"
I'll go. Anyone comin? Cal L
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Cool,
I'm down

Oh Yeah! Will the Birger EF Lens Mount work with the new Scarlet/Epic?
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Red coming soon
Canon Lenses:
85mm F/1.8 *Getting the L next week
50mm F/1.2L
35mm F/1.4L
 
jbeale said:
That has been true with electrolytic caps in years past, and ceramic caps will crack and fail under mechanical stress (normally during assembly, not as much once a unit is assembled). But now there are a lot of high-quality cap choices, and even the electrolytics made now are (I believe) not as failure-prone as the earlier designs.

Now that the R1 has been out for a while, I think their team should have a pretty good idea about what works in the field and what doesn't, at least on the time scale of a few years.
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Regarding Capacitors, My experience as an Electronic Engineer is that the Electrolytics are the weakest link. We had a few Sony DXC-M7 cameras, they all developed hum bars in the picture over time.
I replaced their electrolytic’s with tantalum Capacitors wherever possible, that solved the problems.
I found that a Sony certified service center was selling replacement Power Supply boards; they had the hum bar problems right out of the box.

Jim Jannard,
Thanks for your open-minded design and engineering. You are incorporating many if not all of my design preferences, especially in Epic and Scarlet. Congratulations on your past and future successes.
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Richard_Lentz said:
We had a few Sony DXC-M7 cameras, they all developed hum bars in the picture over time.[/SIZE][/FONT]
I replaced their electrolytic’s with tantalum Capacitors wherever possible, that solved the problems.
I found that a Sony certified service center was selling replacement Power Supply boards; they had the hum bar problems right out of the box.
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Wasn't the M7 like twenty years ago? I was on a test team (as was Bandpro's Mike Bravin) for Sony's first 3chip the DXC3000 at NAB1986 and the M7 was only a couple years later.
 
Richard_Lentz said:
Regarding Capacitors, My experience as an Electronic Engineer is that the Electrolytics are the weakest link. We had a few Sony DXC-M7 cameras, they all developed hum bars in the picture over time.
I replaced their electrolytic’s with tantalum Capacitors wherever possible, that solved the problems.
I found that a Sony certified service center was selling replacement Power Supply boards; they had the hum bar problems right out of the box.

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My company does not allow tantalum capacitors in any of its design. I have had a couple of tantalum capacitors fail on me and a nice 3 inch flame appeared.
 
Steve Goodloe said:
20 years ago, was that a 5 1/2 inch floppy or a 3 inch? Oh the floppy floppies.
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What will we do without all the random sounds our computers used to make? Floppies (both B: and A: ) replaced by flash drives, dial up replaced by cable, spinning HDDs replaced by SSDs.
 
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