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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 :)

New PL Mount Finished

This whole RED camera thing is becoming more and more Number 6 proof every day!
 
Brent@RED said:
You guys are going to be so stoked on this new mount. Shims can join film on the next bus out of town.
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Oh yes I agree. All those crazy film snobs and their dang annoying shims that work so well (and have done for such a long time) with all of those pesky lenses that we want to put on our red cameras, to try and get a filmic look, can just get out of here. Look, see them leaving in a cloud of dust!!!
 
redicule said:
Oh yes I agree. All those crazy film snobs and their dang annoying shims that work so well (and have done for such a long time) with all of those pesky lenses that we want to put on our red cameras, to try and get a filmic look, can just get out of here. Look, see them leaving in a cloud of dust!!!
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oh shit! someone dropped a cat amongst the pigeons
 
redicule said:
Oh yes I agree. All those crazy film snobs and their dang annoying shims that work so well (and have done for such a long time) with all of those pesky lenses that we want to put on our red cameras, to try and get a filmic look, can just get out of here. Look, see them leaving in a cloud of dust!!!
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And what if Red has stumbled upon a new and better way with their new mount? Nothing good could possibly ever come from change. How dare Red or anyone develop a new way or simplify an existing technique? You've opened my eyes to the virtues of sticking to tradition for tradition's sake.
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Looking to start something

Looking to start something

Ah yes redicule, Keep on poking that pot you might find someone who might give you the reaction your looking for.:devil:

Method :biggrin:
 
redicule said:
Oh yes I agree. All those crazy film snobs and their dang annoying shims that work so well (and have done for such a long time) with all of those pesky lenses that we want to put on our red cameras, to try and get a filmic look, can just get out of here. Look, see them leaving in a cloud of dust!!!
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It was funny to me...and the other poster had it coming just as much; basically begging for a smart ass response by spewing rhetoric, and insinuating film is passe and outmoded. And no need to flame me..."well it is." Sure...maybe it is...maybe it isn't. Yet, as Redicule put it, what is everyone dying to emulate?

Take it as levity. It's okay. RED One is good. Redicule is good (though in a stir-the-pot kind of way). Jim is good. The world is good. There's goodness drippin from our collective booty cheeks. Goodness. Nothing but goodness. Neverending...flowing goodness.
 
Can nobody get excited any more?

"Hey I got a new big screen LCD TV, it's great, my old tv made the players look like ants! want to come watch the game?"

"That old tv worked for 15 years, and LCD's have refresh rate problems. I want a perfectly logical description of your new TV, not exagerated one liners. Show me a powerpoint presentation discribing the pros and cons of both your old TV and your new TV, and maybe I'll watch it"

I LOVE people like that. Don't you?
 
Most of the producers I work with are still poo-pooing HD.
They love the old BetaSP. The last three shoots I was
on only wanted DV. It's hard to give up the ghost sometimes.
 
Ethan Cooper said:
And what if Red has stumbled upon a new and better way with their new mount? Nothing good could possibly ever come from change. How dare Red or anyone develop a new way or simplify an existing technique? You've opened my eyes to the virtues of sticking to tradition for tradition's sake.
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I think you kind of missed the point. I'm not saying this. If it works, great, & I hope it does. It's just reading this thread you would think someone had come up with a solution to global warming, not a fix to something that shouldn't have been a problem in the first place.

No disrespect to Red but at this stage this is not yet a field proven product. I'm sure they have testing it, but wouldn't they have done that with the first lens mount before it came out as well? Unfortunately that experienced a few (presumably) unforseen problems.

Also note that the mount was only anounced as finished in the last day or so and already production has started. Does finished mean "design completed, production started", or "design completed and a significant period of testing in the field with multiple camera bodies, as many lenses as possible with as many different brand mounts & mount adapters in as many differerent climatic situations as possible, tests passed, production started"??

It was really the line:

"Shims can join film on the next bus out of town"

that got a giggle out of me. There have been a lot of other posts re: film to the same effect. People have been saying that for years, but guess what.....not true.

I can remember back around 1999-2000 (?) when Sony did a demo day in London with their then new & revolutionary Cinealta HD camcorder that I went to. We were given a brochure that proudly stated that:

"as digibeta heralded the end for 16mm production, so too will the cinealtaHD bring and end to 35mm production"

I only wished I had kept that!!!
 
Fixing global warming

Fixing global warming

redicule said:
I think you kind of missed the point. I'm not saying this. If it works, great, & I hope it does. It's just reading this thread you would think someone had come up with a solution to global warming,
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That was scheduled for January but is currently on production hold...
 
redicule said:
I think you kind of missed the point. I'm not saying this. If it works, great, & I hope it does. It's just reading this thread you would think someone had come up with a solution to global warming, not a fix to something that shouldn't have been a problem in the first place.

No disrespect to Red but at this stage this is not yet a field proven product. I'm sure they have testing it, but wouldn't they have done that with the first lens mount before it came out as well? Unfortunately that experienced a few (presumably) unforseen problems.

Also note that the mount was only anounced as finished in the last day or so and already production has started. Does finished mean "design completed, production started", or "design completed and a significant period of testing in the field with multiple camera bodies, as many lenses as possible with as many different brand mounts & mount adapters in as many differerent climatic situations as possible, tests passed, production started"??

It was really the line:

"Shims can join film on the next bus out of town"

that got a giggle out of me. There have been a lot of other posts re: film to the same effect. People have been saying that for years, but guess what.....not true.

I can remember back around 1999-2000 (?) when Sony did a demo day in London with their then new & revolutionary Cinealta HD camcorder that I went to. We were given a brochure that proudly stated that:

"as digibeta heralded the end for 16mm production, so too will the cinealtaHD bring and end to 35mm production"

I only wished I had kept that!!!
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Dude, you're far too analytical and shrewd to be a popular poster for many on this board. I love it! Great post. I believe in covering things from both angles and asking the hard questions people don't seem to have an interest in answering here. Maybe it's just a, it's-none-of-your-business, we-share-enough-with-you attitude. I don't know, but I have noticed some questions will just not garner an answer. Which at times makes me feel the same elitist attitude this technology was born to defeat, has infected it and the community surrounding it...to a degree.

Now, that's not a complete diss...obviously this is also one of the most helpful AND INTELLIGENT filmmaking communities on the Net as well. The RedUser forum is one HELL of a knowlegdebase.
 
Anyway, looking forward to the pictures when they arrive. But no rush lads just when you're ready.
 
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