"STILL MODE" feature on Scarlet

[Paris Fox]

This is my very first post on this forum. I am excited to venture into the waters of HD with the Scarlet.

I have a bunch of old SLIDES and I was wondering if I would be able to hook my slide Canon Slide adapter that has a soft light built in to the rear and take Scarlet high resolution stills of these slides. I was then going to take the still, do some cleaning and restoration, color correction and final printing.

I was going to get the Olympus E-510 with an Extension tube, thus being able to take a MACRO shot of the Slide being lit by my built in soft lamp connected to the Slide adapter.

I was wondering since the Scarlet will be able to do High resolution stills maybe in 3K even, that I would be able to get several uses out of the camera.

Thank you in Advance!

 

[Jason Murphy]

Not sure I can help you with your question about slides & Scarlet, but unless I'm totally misunderstanding what you want, it seems like a scanner (film, flatbed or otherwise) might be a better way to go about things, and would probably give you a better picture at a higher resolution (not to mention it would most likely be much cheaper).

But to tack on an additional question about Still Mode (or at least maybe offer a suggestion), I was wondering how the still function would work, and how storage would be handled. To give a little bit of context here, I've been shooting some 16mm on a Bolex (and the occasional cartridge of Super 8), and I've occasionally taken to shooting sequences using a rapid succession of single-frames. I love it. (I suppose you can do certain types of time-lapse and stop-motion work this way too, so for those not wanting to use DSLRs for that, there may be application here too).

So, with all that in mind, I had a few questions, and maybe some suggestions; any and all criticisms and comments are welcome:

- Will the speed at which one shoots stills be limited only by how fast one can depress the trigger (if one shoots in manual mode)? Or will there be other latencies at play that would only allow a still frame every second or so? (I would assume the former, but you know what they say about assumptions.)
- Will the stills be stored in REDCode RAW format?
- If so, will they be stored in a separate directory/location/card from the motion clips?

All that said, here's my suggestion: would it be possible, before firing off 60 or 70 still frames as part of a sequence, to specify a separate name/storage location for that series of stills, so that one could shoot and log this type of burst-frame image sequence with a minimum of hassle? So, one can simply take, say, BurstA1.r3d - BurstA70.r3d (or whatever), and easily offload it into its own subdirectory?

To extend this idea into REDCINE, would it then be possible to build in a function to say, take a subdirectory of .r3d stills, and merge them into one single clip for simpler editing/organization/image manipulation purposes?

Again, this is just a thought. Hope it makes sense. Doesn't seem like it should be a terribly difficult thing to do. Maybe, though, I'm the only person who would want something like this, in which case, eh, don't bother.