Dragon....

[Eric Santiago]

Still no frame grabs? This is getting REDiculous.

Well that question is getting REDundant

Oh god I couldn't resist

 

[Andy Roberts]

I really don't get the ongoing requests for frame grabs. Would I like to see how Dragon footage looks...? For sure. But I know shipping doesn't start until September. I'm on the upgrade list. I know footage will come before September. And even if it didn't, I'd still buy the upgrade. I know Red will deliver the goods.

 

[Kalulu Ngilo]

I have a frame grab for you right below and a thread too!!!!

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?94476-Double-Dragon

 

[Mike P.]

That still doesn't count because the hardware has changed since then...

...Besides, that doesn't show the strengths (low-light and dr advantages) of Dragon...

 

[Mark Toia]

That still doesn't count because the hardware has changed since then...

...Besides, that doesn't show the strengths (low-light and dr advantages) of Dragon...

If it was shot at 4000 ISO lit by a candle I would be super impressed

 

[Jarred Land]

Well that question is getting REDundant

Oh god I couldn't resist

heh heh heh.

 

[Jon Jones]

People just want to see the goods, there's no harm in that. They just don't understand the production process very well, and it's not really a secret why... Because everyone knows the secret behind what makes RED, RED is.... well it's secret.

I really don't get the ongoing requests for frame grabs. Would I like to see how Dragon footage looks...? For sure. But I know shipping doesn't start until September. I'm on the upgrade list. I know footage will come before September. And even if it didn't, I'd still buy the upgrade. I know Red will deliver the goods.

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

The Dragon is late. But he just showed up and he is wicked pissed off... run for cover.

Jim

Great news!!!!

If Dragon will get two stops more of DR over MX and better colour science with Caucasian skin tones then it's a winner as a multi-purpose cine digital camera system!!!!!

 

[Matt Ryan]

How about another short like "Tattoo," but with Dragon this time? Would love to shoot some material! Would be nice to have a mix of daylight and lowlight to show off the sensor.

 

[Andy Roberts]

People just want to see the goods

And I understand that. But asking again and again and again isn't going to convince Red. The short answer is it will be ready when it is ready. The ones I laugh at are the ones the IMPLY that Dragon is vaporware. It's not vaporware... it's a vaporizer! :emote_head_explode:

 

[Elsie N]

How about another short like "Tattoo," but with Dragon this time? Would love to shoot some material! Would be nice to have a mix of daylight and lowlight to show off the sensor.

Sounds like that may have been what they were doing with the Christopher Probst shoot.

 

[Brett Clements]

I'd have thought all those cameras RED upgraded to Dragon at NAB would have shot something by now.

 

[Julien Deka]

I think those cameras have been shooting around indeed. For what I understood it is a matter of color science - post-processing if you will. Red wants it to be perfect before release.

 

[Matt Ryan]

Sounds like that may have been what they were doing with the Christopher Probst shoot.

highly doubt it. It was apparently a pilot for a friend, not a RED production.

 

[Phil Holland]

Actually now that I think of it with Dragon coming out relatively soon....

If you haven't seen it in a while or haven't seen it at all, everybody should watch TATTOO real quick, which was posted on Reduser over two years ago.

It's sort of neat to look back at that now.

TATTOO @ 1K & 2K



1K : TATOO-1K-X264.mov.zip

2K : http://red.cachefly.net/Tattoo2K.mp4


VLC player if your normal player wont play the files correctly: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

and the quicktime X264 component for encoding - ( mac ) http://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/mycometg3/

 

[Manfred Lopez]

Actually now that I think of it with Dragon coming out relatively soon....

If you haven't seen it in a while or haven't seen it at all, everybody should watch TATTOO real quick, which was posted on Reduser over two years ago.

It's sort of neat to look back at that now.

Thanks for reposting this!

 

[Phil Holland]

Today on Facebook Peter Jackson posted an image of Dragon out in the wild:

The Hobbit has been shot on Red's Epic cameras. We used prototype cameras in our first weeks of shooting, after conducting extensive testing. They were then replaced with production models as the shoot progressed.

Now, in our last week of shooting, Jim Jannard at Red has sent us an early model of their next generation camera "The Dragon". The Hobbit is Jim's favourite book, so I suspect the name is more than a co-incidence!

We won't be using the Dragon for Hobbit shooting during our last two days, but it gave the camera team a welcome diversion, and they have launched into full-on testing, including having the new camera positioned alongside our Epics so we can compare the two images directly under the same lighting.

Red have singlehandedly pushed digital cinematography into realms undreamed of 5 years ago, and we're looking forward to getting our first glimpse of images from The Dragon.

Link to Peter Jackson's Facebook

 

[Sean Cruser]

oh man so insanely pumped and jealous of PJ!!! can't wait to seeee.

 

[Justin Kirchhoff]

Today on Facebook Peter Jackson posted an image of Dragon out in the wild:

Link to Peter Jackson's Facebook

I just got home and caught this myself. Looks like they are just doing tests, although who knows what PJ has in store after The Hobbit...something fun?

 

[Bobby Farokhzad]

Damn that Peter Jackson...this only means that the first 200 or so Dragon cameras are going to his next movie. I guess the rest of us will have to wait a little longer.