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Red Cam destroyed

R.i.p.
 
I'm quite curious as I don't have experience with such a situation. Would any insurance package cover for that kind of damage?
 
Destroyed?

Destroyed?

Based on the ease of replacing boards in a HDTV cameras "destroyed" is a over the top description for a hole in a circuit board.



Mike Brennan
 
Well if anyone is going to go and do something stupid with their red, would they please let me shoot a film on it before it is annihilated. :)
 
I don't think the problem was $100/day grip. I think the problem was that grip wasn't even worth $100, more like he should have paid to be on the set ;)
 
Michael Thomas said:
Hi everybody,
I'm not naming any names, but I've heard from a couple sources that a Red Camera (####?) was destroyed during a shoot up here in the Bay Area.

Apparently, an operator was attempting to mount the Red to a radio-controlled helicopter, and in doing so drilled HOLES in the camera body. A circuit board was perforated, rendering this particular Red into a pricey paper weight.

Apparently these guys were asked to pack up and a complete cinema helicopter was brought in for the remainder of the shoot, using another of several Reds that were on hand.

With the array of mounting possibilites available for the Red, I am left dumbfounded as to why anyone would attempt a hack job on this camera.

Perhaps someone from the Red Team can tell us if a drilled-and-killed camera has come in for repair, and if so, was it possible?

-M
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This is officially the 1st RED URBAN LEGEND
 
Michael Thomas said:
Hi everybody,
I'm not naming any names, but I've heard from a couple sources that a Red Camera (####?) was destroyed during a shoot up here in the Bay Area.

Apparently, an operator was attempting to mount the Red to a radio-controlled helicopter, and in doing so drilled HOLES in the camera body. A circuit board was perforated, rendering this particular Red into a pricey paper weight.

Apparently these guys were asked to pack up and a complete cinema helicopter was brought in for the remainder of the shoot, using another of several Reds that were on hand.

With the array of mounting possibilites available for the Red, I am left dumbfounded as to why anyone would attempt a hack job on this camera.

Perhaps someone from the Red Team can tell us if a drilled-and-killed camera has come in for repair, and if so, was it possible?

-M
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I always love the "I've heard from a couple sources".

Interesting first post... I say this sounds strange, to say the least.
 
my contact in the L.A. r/c copter cam community says he's heard nothing about any incidents and all r/c shoots with Red cameras have been uneventful and a success...
 
Stranger than fiction!

Stranger than fiction!

OMG! Have you guys heard about the Red Op who was in the water shooting surfers just North of San Francisco? A Great White bit off the arm that was holding his Red... A week later a Great White washed up on the shore and when they opened up the sharks belly, they found the Red!!!

But wait, there's more. They cleaned up the camera and it still worked!! The also found the remains of the Op's arm, sadly it was to mangled to be reattached....

If that's sounds crazy? Listen to this..... They did recover the guys wedding ring. His wife was really happy to get that ring back because it had belonged to her Grand Father.

Better brace yourselves.... her Grand Father.... was Ansel Adams!

Wow.... man, that's trippy, it makes you wonder about a lot of things.

The weirdest might be that the op said he turned down a gig for that same day because they wanted to drill some holes in his RED to mount it to a radio-controlled helicopter.

Just think, if he would have been willing to drill some holes in his RED...... That Great White would still be alive today. Man, that's a shame.

I have to admit one thing though.... Jim sure knows how to build one tough camera.

Because they were able to recover the data off the CF card, they got a Really Amazing shot of the shark biting the guys arm off.... and you can see POV of the camera being swallowed.

The Op has been playing the footage off his lap top for everyone in the hospital.

Stranger than fiction. Apparently there is a lot of interest in the footage from a film maker.... Werner Herzog?

FWIW The Op also said he couldn't wait to get back in the water.

I guess the lesson we can all learn from this is.... Never wear sentimental jewelry when you go swimming in the ocean. And always let people drill holes in your RED's... You never know, you might be saving a Great White from a tragic premature death.

BOT......

jaadgy akanni said:
This is officially the 1st RED URBAN LEGEND
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Naw, I believe it..... :)
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
I'm inclined to seriously not believe this. With all the mounting / rigging options for this camera, could anyone actually be that stupid? OK, before anyone answers that, I know there really are people who are that stupid out there, but come on. Really?

I'm calling BS on this. :wacko:
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I once saw an Arri BL4 in for service where the mechanism was full of sand. I forget what the repair bill was but it was pretty horrendous. Turned out the camera had been on a shoot in Indonesia, and one of the assistants was getting concerned about all the humidity and condensation. He knew that bags of silica gel were good for stopping that sort of thing, and he thought that silica gel was just overpriced sand. So he cut the bottom off a nylon stocking and filled it with sand from a nearby beach and put that inside the camera. Unfortunately all the jostling with shipping back shook quite a bit of the sand out of the stocking where it promptly stuck to all the greasy surfaces in the mechanism! It was just good luck that nobody powered the camera up in before they checked inside.

Somewhere I've got a video assist tape that shows several shots taken with an Arri3 of a wooden platform slung under a helicopter for a commercial. Several times you see the 'copter fly back into the distance and then circle back to buzz dramatically over the camera so you see the platform whizz just overhead. Except for the last time when the last thing you see is the top half of a video frame filled with an ECU of the platform, and the bottom half is just noise!

They tried to tell us that "It just fell off its tripod". Trouble was, they also managed to get grit in the VCR and couldn't get the incriminating tape out....
 
phaz said:
it boggles the mind sometimes, just to be a fly on the wall when the braniac who came up with that idea hatched it....
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I've seen one person destroy his car alarm remote by drilling a new hole through the case when the molded keyring eyelet broke off.
After he'd locked the car of course:biggrin:
 
Jels Prostetnic said:
I once saw an Arri BL4 in for service where the mechanism was full of sand. I forget what the repair bill was but it was pretty horrendous. Turned out the camera had been on a shoot in Indonesia, and one of the assistants was getting concerned about all the humidity and condensation. He knew that bags of silica gel were good for stopping that sort of thing, and he thought that silica gel was just overpriced sand. So he cut the bottom off a nylon stocking and filled it with sand from a nearby beach and put that inside the camera. Unfortunately all the jostling with shipping back shook quite a bit of the sand out of the stocking where it promptly stuck to all the greasy surfaces in the mechanism! It was just good luck that nobody powered the camera up in before they checked inside.

Somewhere I've got a video assist tape that shows several shots taken with an Arri3 of a wooden platform slung under a helicopter for a commercial. Several times you see the 'copter fly back into the distance and then circle back to buzz dramatically over the camera so you see the platform whizz just overhead. Except for the last time when the last thing you see is the top half of a video frame filled with an ECU of the platform, and the bottom half is just noise!

They tried to tell us that "It just fell off its tripod". Trouble was, they also managed to get grit in the VCR and couldn't get the incriminating tape out....
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This was one of those guys that works for 100 bucks an hour, right?
 
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