Welcome to our community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Register Log in
  • 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 :)

Focus....

enrique blein said:
So you think it implies that maybe the autofocus on Canon and Nikon lenses will not suit motion capture (specially in ENG situations of unexpected doc style recording)?
Click to expand...

Well, I'm a wildlife motion capture shooter and due to the need of very long teles and the overall mass of the equipment the options are pretty limited; I'll go on with the Epic EF-adapter and currently feel optimistic about the autofocus feature. Still, I would find it quite a miracle if it will become possible to autofocus say on a flying dragonfly.

If it turns out the RED AF-lenses allow much better autofocus than EF-lenses, then will make a compromize and find a solution how to manage with the best tools available.
 
Focus pullers aren't going anywhere, and neither are PL mount lenses. This is all about options and the ability to have more tools to help in various situations. Some will never use AF... some will find a way to use it some of the time and some will embrace it a lot. This is better than having no option at all.

Jim
 
Jannard said:
Don't forget... we have a RED AF lens program. Our lenses are cinema grade with well controlled breathing. They also will cover FF35. 1st lens is the 24-75mm F2.8. There is a wide zoom and a long zoom to follow.

Focus is manual, one touch on the run-stop button, touchscreen or Pro REDmote. Single or continuous... and tracking. Also... rate control. The system is designed to work with Canon, Nikon and other programs, but will work best with RED lenses. No surprise.

Jim
Click to expand...

NICE! What is the status on the 24-75, possibly available with our stage 2 EPICS?
 
Jannard said:
Focus pullers aren't going anywhere, and neither are PL mount lenses. This is all about options and the ability to have more tools to help in various situations. Some will never use AF... some will find a way to use it some of the time and some will embrace it a lot. This is better than having no option at all.

Jim
Click to expand...

yes..
still.. raw version of focus would be sweet:)
(dont know if its possible...)

but being able to realllly dig deep into a project in the editing room, mapping out focus points and choosing your rack in post could be very very interesting:)
 
Darn You guys for turning me into a raving lunatic fanboy.

The more I use my Red, the more insanely I fall in love with the damn thing.

Is it possible that the focus enhancement (punch in zoom focus check) box can be moved with the joystick or buttons? Is this a possible firmware feature for the R1?

It's nice to be able to go in to a 10x magnification and see if I can see the veins in people's eyeballs heh heh...
 
Dan Kanes said:
Darn You guys for turning me into a raving lunatic fanboy.

The more I use my Red, the more insanely I fall in love with the damn thing.

Is it possible that the focus enhancement (punch in zoom focus check) box can be moved with the joystick or buttons? Is this a possible firmware feature for the R1?

It's nice to be able to go in to a 10x magnification and see if I can see the veins in people's eyeballs heh heh...
Click to expand...

it would be nice to be able to use zoom in focus check mode while shooting (as long as it just goes to the AC's monitor and you can block it from going to the OP finder/ village.

independent monitoring regardless:)

even a dit with a redmote could choose to check false color on his monitor without effecting everyone else
 
Dan Kanes said:
Darn You guys for turning me into a raving lunatic fanboy.

The more I use my Red, the more insanely I fall in love with the damn thing.

Is it possible that the focus enhancement (punch in zoom focus check) box can be moved with the joystick or buttons? Is this a possible firmware feature for the R1?

It's nice to be able to go in to a 10x magnification and see if I can see the veins in people's eyeballs heh heh...
Click to expand...

Why joystick sluggishness when you can touch the part you want magnified?

:)

Van Din said:
VLC doesn't support audio/video "apcs"
Other players like splash etc either.

How can I take a look at the footage?
Click to expand...

I used Quicktime here.
 
Jannard said:
Focus pullers aren't going anywhere, and neither are PL mount lenses. This is all about options and the ability to have more tools to help in various situations. Some will never use AF... some will find a way to use it some of the time and some will embrace it a lot. This is better than having no option at all.

Jim
Click to expand...

Seems a lot of people tend to think with an all or nothing attitude towards these things. I love that there are options like this because I'm not a professional photographer/cinematography but would love to shoot cinema-quality footage on my own. As an amateur I am a terrible focus-puller. This solution would be a huge help for the quality of my footage.

I also see it as a great tool for a director or DP/Second Unit who just wants to pickup some cool shots for ambience and/or inserts without having a full crew or having to wear too many hats.

Plus for stills.

These don't exclude or preclude the ability to have a focus puller for those setups where one would be helpful or necessary. Just another arrow in the quiver. Keep making our quiver bigger Jim!!!!
 
Zakaree Sandberg said:
yes..
still.. raw version of focus would be sweet:)
(dont know if its possible...)

but being able to realllly dig deep into a project in the editing room, mapping out focus points and choosing your rack in post could be very very interesting:)
Click to expand...

Well, the writing's on the wall...

http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/

...something like the insanely high rez / insanely large sensor Epic from the original announcement would lend itself to a pretty darn nifty plenoptic camera.
 
This is a revolution on the order of magnitude of when handcranks were replaced on motion picture cams by sync motors, or when the first Panaflex and hand-held Arri cameras freed us from using Mitchell BNCRs inside 200lb. blimp housings.

If I told you 4 years ago I would have
-a VistaVision resolution camera
-that shoots 100fps
-with touch-screen autofocus
-and 16-bit depth
-and 2000ASA & 13+ stops DR
-and XYZ axis/compass/timecode metadata stream for VFX
-that weighs 4 lbs and fits in one hand
-that compresses giant files w/ no visible loss at huge compression ratios
-and is driven by dynamic color science that gives great skin tone fidelity and solid noiseless blacks, while constantly improving for free

you would tell me I'm out of my *&!&*%^#%(*& mind.

and what I love the most is the way obliterating the line between stills & MoPic will change our aesthetics in ways we haven't discovered yet. Those little hand-held Arri 2Cs and Ss launched the New Wave / Haskell Wexler / John Cassavettes.....


If film camera = mainframe computing (big, closed-source, exclusive, rent it)
and RED One = the first PC (small, open-source, democratic, own it)
then
EPIC = ???? I can't think of what to compare it to. Fiber-optic-networked turbo-processing nano-computers that make you coffee?

I'm forgetting who I'm paraphrasing, and forgive me while I butcher the quote, but if the Red Digital Cinema Company doesn't get something heavier than a piece of paper from the Academy in the near future, the game is rigged.
 
Dan Kanes said:
It's cool to have the touchscreen option, but there is something nice about the atari precision of a joystick compared to the grubby human-ness of my fingers on the viewing surface...
Click to expand...

Did you just use "Atari" and "precision" in the same sentence? :rofl:

I remember having to jam that joystick as hard as I could with my 6 year-old muscles to get it to register anything. Durable yes. Precise... not so much. :smile5:
 
Jannard said:
Actually, the shot is very clean considering the lighting. It was shot in the Bank, which is the same place as the "Fincher with 6 EPICs" was shot. There is no light in there. This pic of Fincher was taken by Mark Romanek in the same light. The floor is the giveaway.

Jim

fincher_epic.jpg
Click to expand...

This is way tooo much power for one man to have in his hands :)
**Drools**
 
Jarred Land said:
We have programmed in all L-series Canon lenses except for the Tilt-Shifts and some of the big monster dogs above 400mm.. we add more daily as we get them.
Click to expand...

request for the 17-55/2.8 efs

not an L but sharp enough to be one !

wide_ef17-55.gif
tele_ef17-55.gif
 
Jannard said:
Focus pullers aren't going anywhere, and neither are PL mount lenses. This is all about options and the ability to have more tools to help in various situations. Some will never use AF... some will find a way to use it some of the time and some will embrace it a lot. This is better than having no option at all.

Jim
Click to expand...

I agree...on second thoughts focus pullers will remain like many other working solutions unless these AF systems are taking a major step ahead and I dont see it coming as of yet. Still the options are nice ( if they work).

So when can I try the scarlet for my run&gun films? :biggrin5:
 
i just saw the red and the red sticker, and.... so much red...
 
This is in no way intended to be a negative comment, it's just my reality right now.... but man, I really hope I'm still around to see these things come to market... to get to buy and use one.

There's two things in this life that I eagerly await.... a cure for cancer and the Epic/Scarlet release.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top