Rob Anderson
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RED DRAGON + SCHNEIDER XENON FF-PRIME
We recently took delivery of a Schneider-Kreuznach Xenon FF-Prime lens set (35mm, 50mm, 75mm). Everything in this post will be a combination of RED Dragon and Schneider Xenon FF-Prime sample footage+stills. We'll keep this thread updated with fresh content. Thanks for looking.
Read my original Dragon sensor impressions thread here:
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?108706-Dragon-impressions
PIOCHE, NEVADA
The same day we received our Schneider Xenon FF-Primes, we packed up a truck and headed 3.5 hours North, out of Las Vegas, and into the Pioche/Great Basin high desert. First stop, Amazon Ranch Equestrian Facility. We captured approximately 3 TB of landscape, wildlife, horses (both trained and wild mustangs), time-lapse, and even footage of everyone's favorite, not-so-secret military installation. Everything was captured at 6K with a Motion Mount and Schneider Xenon FF-Primes.
Vimeo sample footage:
Download 2K (2048x1024 h.264): http://blackwoodfx.com/shares/pioche1080-h264.mov (259.1 MB)
Still frames:
NOTES: The Dragon performed flawlessly. Temps fluctuated around 20-25 degrees F and there was a light mist of snow in the air most of the day. The Motion Mount is a very underrated product. The built in IR proved to be a major boost on this shoot. It helped keep things light-weight and moving fast. We did not use a matte box. We employed Motion Mount IR filtering on almost every shot. Plus we used the motion control features to smooth out our night-time time-lapse on the Las Vegas Strip. Everything you see in the sample footage was shot on 128 GB REDMAGs with occasional high-rate overcranking. You'll notice a bit of noise in the blacks on the Las Vegas Strip time-lapse capture. This is mostly because we did not do a black level calibration after coming out of Great Basin. Temps were approximately 22 degrees different between Las Vegas and Pioche.
This was the second time in a week that we headed to Great Basin. Before receiving our Schneider Xenons, we shot on Nikon. Behind the scenes footage from that first Nikon-only trip available here (captured with Google Glass):
FIREWORKS
Schneider Xenon FF-Primes, wide open (2.1) 35mm and 50mm. 96fps RC 14:1.
1:1 crop from above framing:
MORE TO COME
We'll post more content once it's ready. Thanks again.
We recently took delivery of a Schneider-Kreuznach Xenon FF-Prime lens set (35mm, 50mm, 75mm). Everything in this post will be a combination of RED Dragon and Schneider Xenon FF-Prime sample footage+stills. We'll keep this thread updated with fresh content. Thanks for looking.
Read my original Dragon sensor impressions thread here:
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?108706-Dragon-impressions
PIOCHE, NEVADA
The same day we received our Schneider Xenon FF-Primes, we packed up a truck and headed 3.5 hours North, out of Las Vegas, and into the Pioche/Great Basin high desert. First stop, Amazon Ranch Equestrian Facility. We captured approximately 3 TB of landscape, wildlife, horses (both trained and wild mustangs), time-lapse, and even footage of everyone's favorite, not-so-secret military installation. Everything was captured at 6K with a Motion Mount and Schneider Xenon FF-Primes.
Vimeo sample footage:
Download 2K (2048x1024 h.264): http://blackwoodfx.com/shares/pioche1080-h264.mov (259.1 MB)
Still frames:
NOTES: The Dragon performed flawlessly. Temps fluctuated around 20-25 degrees F and there was a light mist of snow in the air most of the day. The Motion Mount is a very underrated product. The built in IR proved to be a major boost on this shoot. It helped keep things light-weight and moving fast. We did not use a matte box. We employed Motion Mount IR filtering on almost every shot. Plus we used the motion control features to smooth out our night-time time-lapse on the Las Vegas Strip. Everything you see in the sample footage was shot on 128 GB REDMAGs with occasional high-rate overcranking. You'll notice a bit of noise in the blacks on the Las Vegas Strip time-lapse capture. This is mostly because we did not do a black level calibration after coming out of Great Basin. Temps were approximately 22 degrees different between Las Vegas and Pioche.
This was the second time in a week that we headed to Great Basin. Before receiving our Schneider Xenons, we shot on Nikon. Behind the scenes footage from that first Nikon-only trip available here (captured with Google Glass):
FIREWORKS
Schneider Xenon FF-Primes, wide open (2.1) 35mm and 50mm. 96fps RC 14:1.
1:1 crop from above framing:
MORE TO COME
We'll post more content once it's ready. Thanks again.
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