Motion Mount Discontinued

[Andrew Arguello]

The Motion Mount was removed from the RED.com website. I had been interested in buying one. What are your thoughts on using them for the Global Shutter feature. Why do you think they discontinued them?

 

[Timothy Jones]

Whoah, mine's now worth a fortune !

 

[Andrew Arguello]

Do you use yours often? How do you like it?

 

[Meryem Ersoz]

They work great on my Epic Dragon - not good on DSMC2, in my experience. Weird color shifts....

 

[Kenny Mosher]

Yeah I had very odd orange color fades and shifts with my PL MM on dsmc2. Unfortunately Red still doesn’t have a fix for this problem, so my unit has been shelved for quite some time now . I loved it on Dragon and Epic!

 

[George Nathanson]

This would be pure speculation, but perhapse they are going to implement an in-camera solution for DSMC3. They have already teased a CFAST module.

 

[Andrew Arguello]

This was my thought as well. Can't wait to see what they release.

 

[Blair S. Paulsen]

For many folks, the motion mount was mostly about variable ND in camera. IMO, not the biscuit - though it can be handy. It about time aliasing and reducing judder.

I would LOVE to see digital cinema cameras that can offer a sine wave shutter instead of a square wave. Sure, for some material it's moot - but for a lot of shots, the more natural motion characteristic provided by the sine wave shutter is revelatory. Go RED go!

Cheers - #19

 

[Phil Holland]

I still have mine, but I haven't pulled it out in a heartbeat. I used it a bunch for exposure control for helicopter aerials, but truly the Soft Shutter mode was the most interesting thing for me on a visual level. Very unique motion blur that helps on some of the temporal aliasing related issues we're facing with HDR even.

 

[Karim D. Ghantous]

This would be pure speculation, but perhapse they are going to implement an in-camera solution for DSMC3. They have already teased a CFAST module.

That would be pretty awesome.

I would LOVE to see digital cinema cameras that can offer a sine wave shutter instead of a square wave. Sure, for some material it's moot - but for a lot of shots, the more natural motion characteristic provided by the sine wave shutter is revelatory. Go RED go!

I agree - I actually saw the Motion Mount primarily as a way to give the camera a soft shutter - the variable ND didn't appeal to me as much. I think that a sine way shutter can be implemented on a film camera, BTW, without too much work. You basically have a double graduated ND on the rotating mirror shutter.