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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 :)

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i forget to add:
the plugs should be arranged in a way so the attached cables doesnt turn the cam into a frankenstein with rasta fary hairs.
ergonomics :)
 
It is a camera that offers:

- highest degree of flexibility, easy control and quality in image acquisition and post work
this might complicate the working process but anyway it is professional's profession so it will be easy for him (or team)

- standardized electrical and mechanical i/f's

- durability, consistency, robustness in various weather conditions

- easy access to support personal

- availability of tools that enable streamlined work in the complete chain from pre-to-post production (without streamlined work process one can be a professional, albeit not a successful one)
 
no to little backorder on assecoires :)
a fully functional support (repairs and upgrades of everything) and selling center (all assecoires) on every continent.
 
despite my suggestions its important to keep the red style of doing things in their unique style.
this is half of the fun of using a RED.
 
Jannard said:
We profess to make professional cameras. I'd love to hear your take on what exactly professional means to you.

Jim
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How about the focus check device. You announced so long ago that I have already forgot its name.
Being a pro meaning having some check up tools.
 
Well, there are a lot of good answers here already about what I think professional is between me and my clients.

What I need from RED is professional too.

Up until now, you've reached your fans. RED makes a great camera, and for the money the original RED One is still a magnificent camera. We get it.

Then again I love RED, its not just a tool to me. I am happier shooting a jenky RED One rig than a fully tooled out Arri. I smile for days when I get to shoot a properly kitted Red One with decent lenses.

Your new Epic customers won't all feel that way. Your new Scarlet customers will expect you to give them the same service on their cameras that they get on a corporate Dell or HP...

They'll want very fast access to replacement parts and even cameras.

They'll need top notch people ready to hold their hand when they mis-flash a Rocket, or turn saturation down to 0 and wonder why their fancy RED camera only shoots black and white.

If you take money they will want you to ship right away.

I have shot on about 6 RED One cameras (serials between 1000 and 4000) that ordered EVF's simultaneously with their RED Ones and never got them eventually being bumped over to the Bomb EVF program. Have a look at the RED Store right now... how many things are backordered? Sure enough EVF's... backordered.

Fans put up with that. Pro's can't afford it.

Well... in this business some pros can afford it, but most can't afford to have backup cameras on set just in case. I put my reputation, as meager as it may be, on the line whenever I go into a longer production and argue for Red.

Please don't let the roll out of Epic be as slow as the roll out of Red One was. Please make sure that everyone who buys a camera brain can get all the appropriate accessories right away without delay. Build an inventory of spares and service parts.

Get all the staff you need to help with roll outs to new customers and support for customers depending on you and RED.

Hell... I bet you can tap your fans to help- after all most of us are working pro's- and in our business we aren't all working all the time. I can come out and work for RED temporarily to help with a roll out if you need and I am sure I'm not alone.

Make it easy and quick... and keep it that way for the camera life cycle.
 
Keeping your head when all around you are losing theirs.
Standing your ground when the rest are running away.
Staying true to your vision when everybody is blind.

...And having an Epic
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Everything that RED is now, but then without audio and codec faults ;)

Also built quality of little knobs, handles, cables and buttons on professional gear should be equally good as the tasks that lie beneath them. Professional gear isn't for everybody necessarily, but always performs. Even after you just played catch with it. Which we do occasionally.
 
Sanjin Jukic said:
I'm just literally each of these incarnation: a professional, a hobbyist and an amateur altogether in one person.

Btw, I'm very high skilled and even "over educated" and it is pretty hard to satisfy me at all.
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At the age of 90, Mr. Akira Kurosawa, while getting an Oscar, said that he is now barely beginning to get to know cinema, that he knows practically nothing about it.

I'm sure Sanjin would agree. After old, this old-timer Jap punk had absolutely no idea how to shoot gorgeous home plants, or distant, mysterious smoke chimneys, not to mention bold, ground-breaking "quick-and-dirty" tests!
 
A professional artist [IMHO] is one who completes the job at hand, paid or otherwise, to a reliably high standard without "problems" blamed on anyone or anything else - such as the gear.

A professional bit of kit is one that allows the professional artist to do what they are required to do without ever creating situations where said professional artist has cause to blame the gear.
 
Professional comes from profession.

A professional is someone who earns hers/his income with hers/his profession.

In terms of gear it means "made for people who earn their income with this particular gear".

If we talk about cameras for professionals the camera must

- withstand environmental stress.

- keep its value for a a reasonable amount of time (protecting the investment).

- meets the quality that a target group envisions.

- is reliable and does not jeopardise with dysfunctions a costly production.

Professional does not say anything about picture quality, resolution etc., only its usability to create income with it.

Hans
 
Does professional necessarily mean higher prices?

Yes, it does.

Probably the new prices will go higher…????!!!!
 
Though you can define professional with many words, the one word that everything professional is synonymous with: serious.

I have seen people and objects defined as "professional" that cost a lot of money that I wouldn't consider professional. So money can't be it. I can say the same for timeliness, attire, name, organization, etc. I can say that everything professional is serious about what it does.

Attitude. And I guess that is why anyone with a bad attitude is not a professional. :}
 
Professional to the individual means that this is where they earn there daily income, whether baker, accountant or cameraman etc.

To be professional is to have an in depth knowledge of your trade, never stop learning, use the best tools for the job in hand, be creative and produce a production the client and you are proud of.

You offer a service to produce the product your client wants, be time and in budget to the highest standard within that budget, go there extra mile, whether it be for wedding, corporate to Hollywood main stream.

A professional camera, first and for most is reliability and it does what it professes to be.

Each time you fire it up its there for you, you take the shot you know its in the can, takes the day to day knocks and still keep working. Provides the image and work flow that can be relied upon.
 
in terms of cameras / movie equipment

- choice!
I have task a) I take my gear and it does the job perfectly
I have task b) totally different task but my gear can take it all
so whatever I imagine, my gear can fullfill and won't stop halfway through

- make the otherwise impossible, possible.
If I want to shoot a jumping black cat in a dark alley, a mile away from me, I want to get that shot. in slo-mo
If I want to shoot a white dove backlit, two miles away from me, I want to get that shot. in slo-mo

- best picture quality
- robust built
does not stop working whatever you put it through
- faster images / in terms of focus and per sec

- did I mention choice?
I think that the professional gear should be able to make everything you dream of possible for you.

oh, and
features of which amateurs don't even know what the name stands for :D
so we can speak in a way to make amateurs feel stupid - muhahahaa
 
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