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Red smokes 5D mkII in Norwegian test

I would only have been shocked if it hadn't. The RED is almost ten times the price!

Stephen
 
Casper Warnich said:
About the night shots, the two guys are telling us (in Norwegian) that the Canon used an f/1.0 lens and the Red used f/3.0 - so the Red looks pretty stupid in comparison
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Incorrect, the Canon had a 24mm f/1.4 lens, the Red had a Master Prime (T1.3). They're saying that the Canon is sort of unique if you absolutely, positively have to shoot in total darkness, without lighting.
 
Nils J. Nesse said:
Incorrect, the Canon had a 1.4/24 L II lens, the Red had a Master Prime. They're saying that the Canon is sort of unique if you absolutely, positively have to shoot in total darkness, without lighting.
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Crazy Norwegian gibberish :pinch: I thought they said 1, my mistake
 
This can't be that big a surprise can it? Still when someone says smoke and Norway in the same sentence I can't help thinking about tasty smoked salmon.

Noah
 
For a camera that is as big as the lens on the camera it is being compared to, and at a 10th of the price, the 5D is doing pretty good. This is just the beginning from Canon as well as Nikon. The future is bright for this technology. It will only get better as time goes by.
 
I'm a bit surprised that they didn't take Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM to compare with Arri/Zeiss Master Prime 50mm T/1.3.

But if it is about crazy Norwegian gibberish I'm forgiving them now all :).
 
For some reason, all traces of this story have been removed from Gizmodo's site. I guess maybe the comments convinced them the story was tosh....
 
The footage from the Red One by itself wasn't that hot at all either. You can take a $30k cam and create crap as well.
 
You can get "pretty good footage" from a lot of the sub $10K cameras. Aren't you suppesed to get "oustanding footage" from the Red One?
 
Well, we're also seeing it on a piddly little screen, that looks like it's definitely sub-HD, with a web compatible bitrate.

Process both of that footage, and display it on Sony's 4K projector onto a 50 foot screen, and then try to compare them.

The Red Footage could stand up to that, the 5D footage wouldn't.

I think the Red Footage looks perfectly fine, there is nothing wrong with it, fantastic latitude, great colors, i'm really happy with how it looks.

But on a screen of this size, it's kind of impossible for me to see the Red's full potential.
 
I have to say the 5D opens up the unique creative possibility of shooting some very original looking scenes at night with little or no light. I'll probably get one just for that purpose.

-shooter
 
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