Mono Dragon R3D's First Look

[Zeb B]

Evening Reddies,

Yesterday afternoon I took delivery of production Mono Dragon #1 in the USA. Thank you Jarred, Brent, Kelly and the entire RED Team for getting this beast designed, built and delivered!

To me part of the first issue responsibility is to shoot/post raw images that test the extreme edges of the cam for all to see. With that in mind, I went out hunting this afternoon for very high DR and other challenging scenes - stuff that was HDR like in range or had cool gray tones. I shot with one lens, the Canon 17mm TS-E, since I wanted to include architecture in the tests. From my first look at the R3D's tonight I can say that this is the best film sensor I have ever used. I have worked extensively with the PhaseOne products - this is better.

Here are some R3D's you can dig into. Amazing how fat the negatives are. Toss a grade at them!

All images ©ZEB

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoR3Ds/ZEB_200.R3D

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoR3Ds/ZEB_201.R3D

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoR3Ds/ZEB_202.R3D

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoR3Ds/ZEB_203.R3D

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoR3Ds/ZEB_204.R3D

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoR3Ds/ZEB_205.R3D

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoR3Ds/ZEB_206.R3D

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoR3Ds/ZEB_207.R3D

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoR3Ds/ZEB_208.R3D

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoR3Ds/ZEB_209.R3D

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoR3Ds/ZEB_210.R3D

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoR3Ds/ZEB_211.R3D


Here are some half size JPG's

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoJPGs/©ZEB_LRG-200.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoJPGs/©ZEB_LRG-201.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoJPGs/©ZEB_LRG-202.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoJPGs/©ZEB_LRG-203.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoJPGs/©ZEB_LRG-204.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoJPGs/©ZEB_LRG-205.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoJPGs/©ZEB_LRG-206.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoJPGs/©ZEB_LRG-207.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoJPGs/©ZEB_LRG-208.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoJPGs/©ZEB_LRG-209.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoJPGs/©ZEB_LRG-210.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/117794729/ZEB_MonoJPGs/©ZEB_LRG-211.jpg

 

[Zeb B]

Reserved

 

[Zeb B]

Reserved 2

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

You lucky sonofagun…. Will have to start checking out these R3D's. The thumbnails look great.

Congrats on your new toy!

 

[Bob Gundu]

Holy Smokes! Congrats!

 

[Phil Holland]

Dragon Monochrome = Thick and sensitive. Dig it.

 

[John Marchant]

Nice one Zeb. You're going to enjoy this without a doubt

 

[Nick Morrison]

Amazing grabs. Thanks for sharing Zeb. Cograts!

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Nice and in the right hands!

nJoy!

 

[JanneJansson]

Scary cool! Almost make my head hurt thinking of capabilities of Mono Dragon

 

[Christopher Barrett]

That's pretty damn awesome, man. I know that thing is going to be a shitload of fun!



Oh, drag... no A.D.D. available yet for Mono? Well, I'm sure it's just around the corner.

 

[Tom Greenberg]

Sweet!! Congrats on scoring Mono #1…thanks for sharing some pix from the beast!

 

[Peter Majtan]

Oh, drag... no A.D.D. available yet for Mono? Well, I'm sure it's just around the corner.

You need a sequence of frames for ADD - doesn't work on a single frame...

:sifone: Peter

 

[Christopher Barrett]

You need a sequence of frames for ADD - doesn't work on a single frame...

:sifone: Peter

Of course... silly me. How can you average from one frame???


My take on one....

 

[Jan Reiff]

Thanks for Sharing, the Monochrome Stuff is a class of its own -

 

[Robert L. Mickles]

Very nice! Congrats!

 

[Will Keir]

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Thick and sensitive.

 

[Aaron McLane]

vey impressive

 

[Curran Giddens]

Wow! Very nice. Congrats!

 

[Matt Uhry]

Nice, Images look Yummy.

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