Red One test in -35C (-31F)

[Ken Are Bongo]

We in Kautokeino Film, in northern part of Norway when it is Polar Night now, tested our Red One camera, with the Red Prime Pro lenses, in -35C to see if it worked.
After 15 min outside, the Red monitor started to frees and the picture on it was getting more blurry, but we could use it. The Red EVF was useless after about 20 min.
There was no problems with the pictures we got from the shooting.
Every thing else worked absolutely fine. No other problems.
There are no problems with the monitor or EVF now.

http://vimeo.com/8737483

 

[Taylor Morrison]

Buurrrrr! Nice bit of ice making there. Thanks for the info on cold weather and RED. Nice to know how low I can go. ( even if I hope never to have to!)

Taylor

 

[axel ebermann]

vividly remember the water trick when i was shooting in Svalbard in wintertime.
nice one

 

[Martin Weiss]

How do you operate the camera (i.e. change menu settings)? Do you have the same type of gloves that they use in biathlon? In -20c I sort of manage brief changes, cannot imagine how you do it at -35.

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Unfortunately my cam is in the southern hemisphere... LOL

Should have been in Kautokeino nowish

 

[Ken Are Bongo]

Martin Weiss: Here I just use some thin cross-conry ski gloves that actually are really good in cold wether. For operating the menu settings I don´t use glows at all, but you have to be quick!

Gunleik: Ser fram til RED workflow kurs!

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Det ble langfilm i Kurdistan i stedet nå, men jeg gleder meg og!

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

We in Kautokeino Film, in northern part of Norway when it is Polar Night now, tested our Red One camera, with the Red Prime Pro lenses, in -35C to see if it worked.
After 15 min outside, the Red monitor started to frees and the picture on it was getting more blurry, but we could use it. The Red EVF was useless after about 20 min.
There was no problems with the pictures we got from the shooting.
Every thing else worked absolutely fine. No other problems.
There are no problems with the monitor or EVF now.

http://vimeo.com/8737483

RED1 on -35C (-31F) can handle it fine just because of its compact design body.
Everything inside that compact body is heated with electronics and sensor more or less at the same temperature,
but LCD or EVF were sooner or later out of work and of course frozen without any heating.

That a good "test proof" for the future Epic "modular design"...

Absolutely fantastic!!!!

 

[Eric J. Johnston]

Prior to me joining the Vitec Group my company Cine Hardware designed and developed a clamshell EVF heater specifically for cold weather applications. Offhollywood will be testing prototype #002 on the upcoming feature film “Hypothermia” and will let you know how it performs.

 

[Ken Are Bongo]

Thanks Eric, I´ll think we need something like that :-D

Thanks Sanjin!