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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 :)

Titanium...

Titanium looks sexy...but 18X the price is a bit...expensive...
 
Antonio Forjaz said:
Titanium looks sexy...but 18X the price is a bit...expensive...
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I think the x18 is for the mount only. Like if the value of the mount is $500 then it will be $9000 more.... which is .... hmm...hmmmm...hmm... quite expensive...
 
Yeah, and titanium just happens to be a quite expensive form of material you generally wouldn't use unless you really, really need to. Which makes this an OK price -- premium and too much for most of us, yes, but not really expensive relative to what it could cost.
But the coolness factor is x100 so it evens out ;)
 
I assume these are for use in the Antarctic and Hell? Otherwise, not necessary?
 
Jarred Land said:
Aluminum is standard On Epic, and you can pay the difference to upgrade to Titanium
PL , or Stainless PL, your choice.
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Besides the fact that now I will likely have to have yet an other accessory upgraded, he he, I love the Titanium for sure, just not so sure about the color, hope it can be Painted Black??! Or at list a shade of black, different then the Aluminum one, and even if not matched to the Black of the body, just that I'm in Love with the overall look of the Epic in Black, and don't really wish to go for the front Titanium look if I could, but I do want the Stronger, more Durable, and convenience of the Titanium Mount resistance to difference of extreme weather changes, which I will encounter for sure in my global travels.
 
So any word on what the cost will be? It does look nice, and the benefits sound great- I'm just wondering if it will be work the premium.

BTW- I'm glad to see more Tattoo's are coming out. Come on stage 2- it can't get here fast enough... Keep up the great work. :)
 
My family owns tool and die shop, so I can understand how this stuff can chew through your bits. Machining isn't cheap, but when you use materials like titanium and can machine them within tolerances of a fraction of a strand of hair, you are getting quality for what you pay for. If I ever go to the arctic, the Sahara, or the moon (maybe in my lifetime?), I will be getting one of these babies.

Which reminds me, have you gotten any attention from NASA yet? Epic seems to be the perfect space cam. :}
 
Wonder if you could get a Big Bertha Driver and machine a hole in the head so you could put a lens on it and.... no, probably not.
 
Is this the recommended mount for the RPPs? Owning a set, I know they are solid and heavy.

How does Epic's aluminum mount compare to RED ONE's PL?
 
Milan Nikolic said:
Titanium PL mount is great! But I would like Sanjin to elaborate further on Leica lenses for
5K. I am very interested!
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Milan,

to answer you that question I can only quote

Scottish lens designer Iain Neil* who designed Leica Summilux-C lenses:

“The other very big technical aspect, without getting into MTF,
is that these lenses were designed to perform extremely well
for not only 4K, but also 6K, 8K, and well beyond. Two major
things (besides distortion and a few other things) contribute to
picture quality when you talk about camera resolution like 2K,
4K and so on. One is contrast and the other is resolution. Most
cinematographers do lens tests by looking at a test chart that has
black and white bars. You can put up a Baltar, you know, a really
old lens from the 1950s, and you can say it’s a 4K lens. But there’s
a difference.“At whatever the resolution has to be for 4K, when you look at
the contrast, how black the black is, how white the white is, for
these black and white bars, when you measure it for a Baltar, you
might get only 30% contrast. You should get ideally 100%, but the
best you might hope for would be around 90% once you design
and build the lens. Lenses from 20 years ago, maybe you get 40 or
50%. And this can vary over the picture, from center to edges. The
point is, all these lenses are 4K. But then arguments go on over
contrast—it’s contrasty on axis, but not off…"


* Iain Neil is an international, multi-talented optical designer,
currently living in Lugano, Switzerland. He was born in Scotland,
graduated from Strathclyde University in Glasgow in 1977 with
a B.Sc. Honors degree in Applied Physics, awarded Alumnus of
the Year in 2003 and made Visiting Professor to the Department
of Physics in 2004. Along the way, he won more technical Oscars
than anyone else, and has been issued or applied for over 150
worldwide optically-related patents.
His association with Leica goes back over 30 years. He worked
for Barr & Stroud Ltd. Scotland (now a division of Thales), as
Head of Optical Design. The company had associations with Leitz
Wetzlar. He then was employed at Ernst Leitz Canada Ltd. (now
Raytheon ELCAN Optical Technologies Ltd.) as Manager, Systems
Engineering. Most cinematographers, of course, will remember
Iain from his eighteen years at Panavision Inc. as Executive
Vice President, Research & Development and Optics, and Chief
Technical Officer. At Panavision, his work included the design
and development of the Primo series of spherical and anamorphic
lenses, video systems, viewfinder optics, HDTV optical systems,
compound zoom lenses, and much more.

Film & Digital Times 32-33 issue, pages 36-37 >>>
 
Ace said:
Milan, for the love of god.. Dont get Sanjin started!

Actually.. I'm interested too...
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We tested a longer focal length Leica on the Epic.. and it covered the full 5k sensor.

Djordje said:
Hi Jarred, I know its not the place for this question, but will we have the chance to see some fix scarlet footage soon. I know we are boring...and I know you work a lot but you mentioned this week and we are red freaks...sorry...but its your fault we became freaks ha,ha, ha...
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Sorry man.. All focus is on Epic right now. We need to get Epic buttoned up and out the door, or there will be no Scarlet.

Jared Caldwell said:
Which reminds me, have you gotten any attention from NASA yet? Epic seems to be the perfect space cam. :}
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heh heh heh...

Curran Giddens said:
Let me guess...

$2000 for the Titanium mount itself?
$1500 skip the standard PL and upgrade to Titanium?
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$1500 for the Stainless, $2500 for the Titanium.
 
Jarred Land said:
We tested a longer focal length Leica on the Epic.. and it covered the full 5k sensor.
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So Jarred does this means then when using the Epic-X and RPP 300mm for photography work, this new mount options will be a much safe situation were we don't have to really worry about support?

Also, sorry again, can we have it Anodized? Or will it only come in the Titanium Silver/Gray?
 
KETCH ROSSI said:
So Jarred does this means then when using the Epic-X and RPP 300mm for photography work, this new mount options will be a much safe situation were we don't have to really worry about support?

Also, sorry again, can we have it Anodized? Or will it only come in the Titanium Silver/Gray?
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You should always support heavy lenses if you can. And yes.. it will come finished if you want.
 
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