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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 :)

Franky comes out to play

Jim,

If nothing else, the explosion of posters on this thread will lead you to believe jonsing Redheads don't really need too much to keep them at bay. Just show us a whiff of the money... don't need to see the stack of bills, and we're okay. Thanks for the tease.
 
Indie Rentals said:
Let's see... Can I add one of those to my huge order? I mean, I'll own everything else :)
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BTW, I'll be giving you a call as soon as my shoot is finished in a week from now to complete that lens deal we were discussing!
 
Normal people would just use a simple box-typed shape.

That's one of the reasons I like you guys.


So there are two things to enjoy here

Frankie

and watching people go nuts again.... ;)
 
insanityfw said:
She's a beauty, because of what I hope is inside. I'd rather have a smart girl over a pretty girl any day.
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Bud: - Why?

Lou: - Because a pretty girl may run away from me some day?

Bud: - So - A smart girl may run away from you too!

Lou: - True - but who cares!

Abbott & Costello - 1944,

Rosco

P.S. I prefer Lucille Ball to Lou Costello - 'cause she's a REDHEAD!
 
Just curious, you obviously went to quite a bit of trouble producing the test bed, as people point out it isn't exactly a wooden box. In that case why did you decide to opt for this design over the designs you already had for the early Red's way back when. Obviously there is reasoning behind the early production model and it'd be interesting to find out what they were. I'm guessing issues with stability might've been one of them? Perhaps measuring heat from the sensor etc another? Jarred mentions there is alot of function in Franky's design so purely from an inquisitive point of view what kind of things were you looking for when you built her the way you did?
 
Paul, Usually when you make prototypes you don't have final designs complete such as processor boards, drivers, power supplies etc. I would guess that this is the case with Frankie. The prototype stuff is almost always a few times larger than the final.
 
CVB said:
Paul, Usually when you make prototypes you don't have final designs complete such as processor boards, drivers, power supplies etc. I would guess that this is the case with Frankie. The prototype stuff is almost always a few times larger than the final.
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If what we see is a self contained unit, even minus power supply, Frankie is no monster, she's a lot smaller than I expected.
 
Size helps in detecting hardware issues

Size helps in detecting hardware issues

And when something does fry it is easier to spot on a larger circuit board.

In the old days one often had to get in there with a tiny plastic screwdriver to adjust an analog power/signal pot, but todays cameras use many more digitally controlled pots, but you still need to probe and see if the DCP is working correctly.

Rosco
 
CVB said:
Paul, Usually when you make prototypes you don't have final designs complete such as processor boards, drivers, power supplies etc. I would guess that this is the case with Frankie. The prototype stuff is almost always a few times larger than the final.
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What I was kind of getting at was more the fact that Red obviously put together something quite specific and not just slapped together as quickly as possible. At the time they built Franky they had some early concepts of the final body so there must be specific reasons for the design they used... why it was strapped to a table etc. I'm just interested to hear from those that decided on the specific design as to what were their early limitations when testing the mysterium sensor with Franky or did they just make it a shiny curvy box for the likes of Mr Stump to enjoy when previewing the camera :)
 
Jarred Land said:
Everything you have seen shot so far, has been off of Franky. She's had some polishing here and there, but the Watch, the Cigar Girls, the Porsche, even the Milk Girls has been shot with her.
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Wow, I thought everything to date had been shot with basically a mish mosh of circuit boards on a workbench, not Franky.:D
 
David Fairbanks said:
Wow, I thought everything to date had been shot with basically a mish mosh of circuit boards on a workbench, not Franky.:D
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Franky is a mish mosh of circuit boards... the shiny cosmetic body on the outside has changed a few times over the last year or so, but the inside boards have always been the same.
 
I want more pics like that, workbenches are the cooolest! I LOVE the process!

Jim, make a video blog for RED. I want you and your workbench on my ipod every day!
 
I hear you have so many cpus running in that bad boy it's a super computer? now that is HOT. Hey if the boards/cpus give out can they be swapped easy?
 
Frankie's so hot it REDefines sexiness
BTW, who's got dibs on her? (other than when she's in the museum)
 
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