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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 :)

Early Adopters...

Brent@RED said:
If you placed a deposit down on a Red One before Aug 31, 2007 and took delivery of that Red One, you are in that leap of faith group.

EDIT: While I can post a truer number on Monday when I can have the report run - if I remember correctly, when we first started shipping RED ONE, there were about 2250 or so reservations for RED ONE. So, if you are a serial number before that and have been riding the RED crazy train since then....well, thank you.
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REDOne #1203 here, we got in as early as we could. Wish it could have been earlier but we've been buying tickets in the train ever since.
 
Seems like yesterday and a hundred years ago at the same time :)
It is pretty crazy that at NAB 2006 ... hardly anone had even heard about 4K. NAB 2013 .... a different story.

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I'm an early adopter...

In 2005 my longtime friend Jim told me about his dream for Red. I was then fortunate to be one of the invitees to the "Red Summit" meeting at Oakley headquarters in December 2005. I was one of Red's two first customers. I took delivery of Red One 0008 (8/31/07), and then in October 2007 I took delivery of Red One city-named pre-production cameras "London" and "Hollywood".

I was incredibly fortunate to be in a position to jump aboard the "Red train" super early - and it was was one of the single best opportunities I've had in a 34 year long career in this industry. But as Jarred rightly said, everyone who stepped up early on when they heard about Red, and then put in a deposit (the "leap of faith"), is also essentially a Red pioneer. Its actually a very big "club" ;). Also, those who would have put a deposit down if they had the funds then are in essence "Red pioneers" at heart.

My deepest thanks to Jim for the chance early on, then definitely to Jarred and the rest of Red Team for their friendship, tenacity, tireless work, and endless help. You collectively initiated major changes in the motion media industry - and each of us here (and way beyond) have gained deeply from that.
 
You know, even though I never put down that deposit, I still feel like an early adopter at heart. Didn't have the money back then, but I was around #419 and #420 all the time thanks Franziska and Alexander. They sort of adopted me because I was as excited about the ONE as they were, and I adopted their babies :) So there I was, taking those babies out to shoots, telling people proudly how great they were, being there when they got sick (which they rarely did), caring for them, making sure nobody hurt them, I knew their characters, and I loved them. And while I knew they weren't mine, they kinda were, at least at an emotional level. And at the very first moment I could afford a RED of my own, I bought one, and now I'm the proud owner of an EPIC-M with my own company, shooting it every day, marvelling at it every day. So yeah, I was an early adopter. Even though it will never show up on RED's records, I truly was. And always will be... And nobody will ever be able to tell me differently, not even Jim or Jarred :)
 
I knew about RED in 2007, but I was deep in the Post world at the time...not really paying all that much attention to cameras...now I wish I had a time machine so I could go back and get a place in that line!
 
After almost 8 years of RED ONE initial sensor design that Jim once bought from somebody very mysterious

we are now at the moment of 2013 just to enter in a new era of digital cine imaging, aren't we????

Redesigned REDCODE compressed RAW and a brand new DRAGON sensor!!!!!!!!!!!

Totally new real life rendering colours and un incredible DR performance!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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CHEERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (shot on Epic X).
Epic-X: 5K, 24fps, ISO 800, 5600K, RC compression 3:1, lens RED zoom 18-50mm T3 @ T8 !!!!!!
 
Tom Greenberg said:
I knew about RED in 2007, but I was deep in the Post world at the time...not really paying all that much attention to cameras...now I wish I had a time machine so I could go back and get a place in that line!
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well for most of us time stood still, since 4K has just recently been "unveiled" by the other late parties.

the early adopters has had a much longer taste of it ;)
 
#344 ready for further instructions.
Cheers,
Harry
 
Lately I've been testing a lot of "other" 4k supporting cameras.
I must say that they all hugely benefit from the hard work that RED put in making 4k a reality among common post-production workflow.

Thanks RED for your early vision!

Pat

Worked with RED Nr.336 from my friend Antoine Baumann since first day he recieved it!
 
#1110 here... I was always bummed they ran out of Ti R's...
 
There's a saying where I live, "I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could". That's RED for me. Couldn't afford the R1 as a broke college student, but always had my eye on them and after years of hard work & saving, I bought the Scarlet the first hour of the night of the announcement (after the server dust settled ;)

Can't wait to see what's next.
 
I'm #100. It's been an exciting and rewarding adventure and I'm so thankful I was able to be part of it. I'm not sure just what you Red folks have in store for us early adopters, but I can't wait to get in on it!
 
Jarred, The Red Team,

There was a reason in 2007 we all imagined your dream, passion and abilities! We too were at crossroads and desperately needed a future!! Jarred and Jim, Ted and The Red Team, you make us proud and it is a pleasure to know we are along your side! Even in the field!

We are diverse and maybe in our case not what you expected as Red Artists, but we are passionate and this is where respect is nurtured !

THANK YOU and RESPECT are ours to give to you with stories, images and integrity! LONG LIVE RED,

PEACE, Kennan & Karen Ward
 

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copied and pasted from my post 43 in Jim's "We Had No Idea" thread

I was checking out the Panasonic HVX on DVXuser when I read about this new RED camera. The Titanium R period had already passed but I asked RED for more information on the camera via their website. I filled out the request form and when it came to the part where it asked what Hi Def cameras I currently owned, I answered that I had two Sanyo Xacti 720p cameras. I never got an answer to my request for more information. '-) I just figured they didn't think I was the level of customer they were looking for. But I persisted and lurked on the forum before finally deciding I would put down a deposit for a camera and find a way to afford the extra amount I was prepared to spend.

About a month or two after placing my deposit for the first camera, my imagination ran wild and I figured if I had two cameras I could make movies more efficiently by covering a scene from more than one angle and allow more freedom in edit. So I put down a deposit on a second R-1. Then came the Epic and some dips in disposable income, but I took out a loan to make the Stage 2 and Stage 3 upgrades happen, along with an eventual sale of the Stage 2 R-1.

I've just recently paid off the last loan and am free of debt. And now... Dragons and hopefully a Red Projector by the time those two things are available. I've spent a lot of cold winter days and hot summer nights to curb my utility bills, not to mention years of eating "passed use-by-date" food and almost zero travel expense in order to pay for my equipment.

Let me sum it up this way... I've never had one minute of buyer's remorse.
 
NAB 2007. I've never reacted so clearly to a new idea. Looked at the camera, the booth, the people, and said, "These guys get it". It was a risk, but more of a lesson in patience as the gear rolled out over the next year. It's cool that Jim and team still appreciate the leap we took. And through this forum, it feels like we took it together.

I haven't commented, but I'm super stoked about the fan stuff. I've learned to use a longer lens for interviews, but that gets weird sometime, moving too far from the subject. I've kept an XDCAM in the quiver for those reasons, maybe I can let that go now.

Red's continuing commitment to innovation and customer service is amazing. Goin to Dragon city as soon as I can. I'm hoping this thread has something to do with that.
 
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