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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 :)

Enter the Dragon

If we can't do revolutionary... we don't deserve to stay in business.

Now you understand what the delay was for...

Jim
 
Kyle Prohaska said:
Waiting for the Scarlet owners to come in here crying.

Looks great, I look forward to watching progress. :)
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why's that? im a scarlet owner and proud to be..soon im gonna be Epic owner :) (in 3-4 months)
still Scarlet is best camera for the price nothing cant beat that.
just wondering when is the deadline for Dragon Upgrade?
 
Kemalettin Sert said:
why's that? im a scarlet owner and proud to be..soon im gonna be Epic owner :) in (3-4 months)
still Scarlet is best camera for the price nothing cant beat that.
just wondering when is the deadline for Dragon Upgrade?
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Scarlet users should be doing backflips :) It has been one of the biggest requests from Scarlet owners to be able to trade up to an Epic.. and that was before we knew just how significant Dragon has become :)
 
as a potential Scarlet buyer... please reduce the price on this out of date and useless piece of equipment!! (grin)

a big wow too...

SK
 
Kemalettin Sert said:
why's that? im a scarlet owner and proud to be..soon im gonna be Epic owner :) in (3-4 months)
still Scarlet is best camera for the price nothing cant beat that.
just wondering when is the deadline for Dragon Upgrade?
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More like crying tears of joy! I am so stoked out to be able to move up to the Epic Dragon line!!! Hoping its like the M->MX program in the sense that us laid off broke guys have ample time to budget towards our upgrade path if needed. But if push comes to shuv, roman noodles for the Dragon it shall be!
 
2013 - The Year of the Dragon.

Looking forward to more details as they appear.
 
Jarred Land said:
Scarlet users should be doing backflips :) It has been one of the biggest requests from Scarlet owners to be able to trade up to an Epic.. and that was before we knew just how significant Dragon has become :)
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+1 trillion for back flips! so amped bro!!!
 
Jarred Land said:
heh heh heh.. notice the little piece of tape on the top of step 16 on the chart. That is where it was supposed to end :)
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One of the Top Ten Best Quotes of the Year (of the Dragon).

I am absolutely gonna upgrade to Epic Dragon !!! :drool5:
 
Awesome news! I can still keep using my Scarlet until I need to trade it in—I was worried about losing money in the interim and the hassel of selling it. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Jarred Land said:
Scarlet users should be doing backflips :) It has been one of the biggest requests from Scarlet owners to be able to trade up to an Epic.. and that was before we knew just how significant Dragon has become :)
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Jarred Land said:
Scarlet users should be doing backflips :) It has been one of the biggest requests from Scarlet owners to be able to trade up to an Epic.. and that was before we knew just how significant Dragon has become :)
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Hell yeah! Can't wait for details!
 
Jarred Land said:
Happy New Year everyone... just a bit of an update on Dragon.


There are some people that think RED has been standing still.. Quite the contrary. We just have been a bit quiet with our hands full harnessing the fire-breathing power of the Dragon.

Dragon was born from a brand new pixel design, with a new fab process and a new read out architecture that has resulted in a sensor that is cleaner and that has more dynamic range than anyone expected.

One of our most reserved sensor engineers wrote Jim and I this morning after shooting a test and these were his words:


" First time in ten years that I'm speechless "


Getting Dragon done was one of the most difficult things we have ever done... but it has turned out to be much more than we could of ever imagined.

This much range coming off of a sensor has never been done before.. let alone at over 6k at 80 frames a second.. so we had to beef up the entire infrastructure of EPIC.

This is likely to affect the price of the upgrade a bit.. and its going to close the door on any chance of a Scarlet to be able to upgrade to Dragon.

We are however.. going to be offering a trade-in program much like we did with the R1 for Scarlet customers to get into an Epic Dragon.


So on the last day of the year of the Dragon, I am going to share with you a frame that was taken this morning.

Don't look at image quality here... this is a dirty debayer with no black calibration, no offset correction and no processing on a special 21 stop DR Chart from DSC.

This is from a prototype " Frankie " Epic camera with a really, really expensive engineering lens that really, really sucks at taking pretty pictures, on a non-sealed lens mount ( hence the light bloom ) but it gives you a bit of an idea on just how powerful all your cameras are about to become.

"Real" Images coming soon... ( but not tonight )


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Happy New Year!

This is really a very impressive image and chart.

I've been to sensor makers and shows like "Vision" in Stuttgart/Germany etc. where almost every sensor make in the world is present. I've seen tons of charts like this, but never before with that range at that resolution scale. OK, I saw 20+ stops in automotive some years ago, but it was about PAL. Here is something that might push the limits: They showed an image of a car driving through a tunnel. In front was a car with no lights on, and you can read the car sign on it. In the background you see the end of the tunnel. The sun is visible and shining directly into the tunnel. On top, you see the clouds in the sky, even around the sun. No blooming. It was mind blowing. It was 20+ steps. Thats about ~90dB range if I remember correctly. Again, mind blowing.

Well done!
 
Jarred Land said:
Getting Dragon done was one of the most difficult things we have ever done... but it has turned out to be much more than we could of ever imagined.
.... it gives you a bit of an idea on just how powerful all your cameras are about to become.
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I'm speechless. I've done a great deal of work surrounding HDRI captured for use in post and I honestly am blown away by this.

This has never been done before with a motion camera. It's extremely exciting.

Congratulations!
 
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