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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 :)

Some tests - I would say it just works...

THX.

Nope.

hafta go back to the charts, I guess.

But this thing is tempting for other shots.

What would your other glass guesses be?
 
It is old.

Fun thing with Dragon is the smoothness that gives the real organic stuff from old (and new) glass even higher value.

the thing I really like about it is not the "extended DR" or the resolution, or the color fidelity, but the:
"Betterness" this all adds up to.

Dragon is just more inspiring fun.

As to the Glass.

I shot this with different glass, ranging From masters to... well not really masterprimes...

Was fun.
 
I can't decide if all of this Dragon stuff is getting me excited or depressed; both, really. I was all excited to trade my Scarlet in for Epic but now I know I am going to have to go the next step, too. Arggghhhh. LOL
 
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Did one more practical test on Practical Dragon, before I disciplined myself back to the charts.

But that is it.

from here until I have to give her back, I will go strictly into numbers.
 
I must say Gunleik that these last two images look very film like.
 
Gunleik Groven said:
And finally (for now)

Another 16mm Ultra shot.
Exposed for the highlights.

Overcast but in the direction of the sun

Notice how we still can see into the office-spaces in the block on the right.

That is all for now folks.

back to the charts.

Whoever gets a Dragon should feel happy

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This shot is so good it hurts
 
trying to sum what i see up in a few sentences....

and i am afraid i will not talk numbers.

i have never found the red cameras "hard to use" or "buggy", but...

dragon has the "it" factor.
the images just feel right. everything "just works".

i have thought of the time, some 20 years ago, when i got sponsored by drum workshop, and put my old slingerland drums to rest.
did not make me a better drummer.
but they gave me an incredible amount of options and control with the added fidelity and tonal possibilities.

Like going from a Yammy to a Backstein or Bosendorfer or Steinway

having shot for a few days now, i feel like i have met a friend i did not know i until recently, but when she has entered my life, it is no turning back...

have i shot comparative tests?

nope.

i have been more eager to find out what the dragon can do on its own, than how it measures up.
and it is indeed an inspiring tool!

as to direct comparisons with other cameras, i do not have the time, it is premature still and frankly not as interesting as it used to be.
i have shot the epic for a few hours and know what i would like to see in its successor. and in dragon i have yet to trigger any of the challenges i know from epic.

And then she adds with new possibilities...

Love it!

firmware and rcx have been stable, too

looking foreward to put my hands on the dragonized color science.

my guess is that will be a "new cam all over" experience.
i am not implying anything bad about the current, but have a feel that there is even more potential in there

dragon is just cool and sexy
And gentle and roaring

fun things

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Thank you for your images and commentary on your Dragon experience. Especially your observation that "dragon is just cool and sexy
And gentle and roaring". Sounds like a new cam yet again from our friends at Red. I am just waiting for my email...
 
I hope I can get round to shoot some shareable stuff, too.

My good friend CF Wesenberg, Stills Photographer, was generous enough to loan us his office/studio for our tests.

He has been working around the clock on other stuff and was exhausted when I came to say thank you.

But Gunleik, you must shoot me!


100 mm Master @ 1.3.

Tungsten/lowlight.

I will put up 6k jpg files.

The masters are scary... :)

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I do so much "weird shit" to break my images, so I guess that if I am to share 6k, it has to be Masters material...
And stuff which is outside the goal of the test...

http://www.gunleik.com/6k.zip
 
Finally (I expect these two shots to be the last I share from the test. And I do not do requests, I do photography/cinematography...)

These are the last kind of shots I have spoken with Jarred of sharing.

If Jarred gives the ok, I can give you 6k redlogfilm TIFFS of them

To me, technically, besides the skintones, these two shots tell me a lot about capacity, and what 6k is all about.

Colors
Dynamic Range
Highlight rolloff
Resolution

It is all in these two frames.
http://www.gunleik.com/6k_oslo.zip

Hope you enjoy!

Please do NOT post grades! ;)

These are also 6k 100mm Masterprime @ t 5.6 with 1.2 schneider ND and Schneider Pola.
NO IR filter.

Hope you nJoy!


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Not to sidetrack Gunleik's thread, but even when looking at these cityscapes on a small laptop screen it's obvious that there's more image information there. An excellent example of the power of super-sampling in high resolution digital acquisition - and a powerful answer to the question of why one would shoot, 4/5/6K for a 1080 deliverable.

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers - #19
 
Gunleik Groven said:
Couple of DR/signalhandling shots, out of RCX.

I will point out what I find interesting in them...

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A bit like the shot from yesterday, but with a person in it.

Creamyness and un-distortedness is what gets me here.
Not having to worry about artefacts when pushing the sensor beyond the range.

And as a by-the-by

Did not use DRX to get there.

Sun is in the upper right corner over the forest

25mm masterprime
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Looking very, very good. 1000 ISO?
 
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