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Marcos Luger Diaz

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Hi Everyone,

Few weeks ago I took the plunge and purchased a RED One. The camera (#6608) is already waiting for me in Miami (I live in Venezuela) and in two weeks I will be traveling there to pick it up, then a three day tour in L.A. (one day for RED Store to buy some accessories). And finally one day stop at BH in NY to buy some other stuff I need. Short trip but intense.

So I had the chance to work on a couple of projects shot on RED, and been reading these pages a lot, but I have some doubts, and probably many more to come…

First, what do you guys recommend for a CF card reader ? I would like FW800, but don’t know about brands or models. I have read about people with damage files, which could have been caused by a crappy card reader.

Second, the process of changing the mounts, PL to Nikon, back and forth. Is this something I can do by myself ? as often as I want ? or it’s something complicated that needs some sort of calibration every time I do it ? Please remember I live in Venezuela, so If I screw it, there is no “sending the camera overnight for fix at RED”.


I guess that’s all by now, am gonna have a really hard time for sleeping the next two weeks !


thanks, Marcos
 
Marcos,

If you are going to LA...then better stop over at Element Technica for RED ACCS. They have the finest quality red accessories around. That is a MUST stop and i go there when coming up from Mexico. Also, for Nikon mount, get the OptiTek mount. You should order it TODAY in order to get it in a week or so since the first batch is due any day and the next batch weeks later.

Those are two SOLID recommendations.

Element Technicas Red Accs at:
http://www.elementtechnica.com/products/

OptiTek Nikon mount at:
http://optitek.org/nikon-prolock.php

another recommendation is the Switronix dual hot swap battery adapter at:
http://www.abelcine.com/store/product.php?productid=1001191

I think you'll find the ET accs. of a higher build quality than the red store--not a knock on them...because you'll pay for that build quality as well at ET, but elegant fine tuned accessories that ET makes. I got all my accs from them.
 
changing PL to Nikon Mount

changing PL to Nikon Mount

Not difficult and in fact takes about ten minutes to do, but i HATE doing it and in fact bought a second body to install a Nikon mount and to dedicate it to a Nikon mount camera only. Very easy to do and is merely a question of having the proper size allen key and ten minutes of time. you can put marks to mark your PL mount so when you switch back you don't have to do any re-calibration, but there are also tools for recalibrating, but again no rocket science to calibrating the PL mount
 
The damaged files problem can also be traced to that some cardreaders perform bad when they get too warm. So having a set of several card readers and alternating between them can be done to avoid this problem.

This problem is not RED specific, it applies to most CF card data that is extracted with a non cooled reader, I´ve had the same problem when transferring files from my still camera with CF cards from Sandisk in a firewire card reader.
 
Thanks for your words guys, I will take them into consideration.

Having a second card reader make a lot of sense, the SanDisk seems to get the best reviews. Anyone tried the Hoodman ?
 
Hey Marcos welcome to the Team! when you come by the RED store.. make sure you find me and say hi.
 
6608, crazy!

The 10,000th Red One owner should get a free upgrade to Epic-X or a piece of cake
 
Jarred Land said:
Hey Marcos welcome to the Team! when you come by the RED store.. make sure you find me and say hi.
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funny...i have been down there 50 times and each time i run into jarred wether i like it or not (i always like it), but the idea that you could go down there and actually miss him...that is truly funny...jarred is everywhere always!

welcome Marcos!
 
Thanks for that lovely welcome guys !

Jarred, I believe you will be at IBC at that time (15th of september) but that's okey, this won't be my last visit to the store :tongue_smilie:
 
Should be back by then Marcos :)
 
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