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Tom G takes a look at the Epic M

Amazing that Tom and I have never run into each other here in Boston. He always does a nice job with his reviews.
 
Fantastic! Was a bit confused when he said the camera comes in about 35 pounds though. Even fully rigged I can't imagine it topping 20.
 
Tom Lowe said:
My friend Tom Guilmette just posted an extensive video blog about the Epic. Seems like he rather liked it. :thumbup1:

http://vimeo.com/26570279
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I was in the office and he tweeted about it late at night, that made me stay in the office until he posted it at roughly 5am LA time, I watched it then passed out. Great review, very excited to put my Epic on the Cineslider.
 
Damn bugs! That looked like a totally idyllic shoot until the swatting started. Art is never easy... Nice work, thank you for the beautiful imagery and a taste of what I will be unboxing tomorrow!

Mike
 
Wow great video! Thank you for the link. I didn't like his final grading of the forrest however.
 
FYI anyone watching this as an instuctional:

To properly blackshade, your lens should be stopped down ad dark as it will go, and then it should be capped so the sensor just sees blackness.

Hope that helps.
 
This video should be a sticky in the EPIC thread, in my modest opinion.
Thanks for sharing
 
At 5:58 he says "Tungsten normal indoor light will flicker" ... is that because of the super high frame rate and the 60Hz AC ?
 
Christian Pfeil said:
Is the natively color temperature of the Epic 5000K and
the natively ISO 320?
Why is the default setting 5600K and ISO 800 then?
Thanks.
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This has been discussed at length here and I don't know if I'm the right person to summarize, but my short answer is: on a DSLR with switchable pre-ADC gain stage, you can define native ISO as the sensitivity with no external gain applied. But, Red cameras shoot in RAW format and (AFAIK) do not incorporate variable pre-ADC analog gain. So the concept of a "native" ISO is not easily defined. You could say the setting that maximizes dynamic range or S/N, but I believe that depends your lighting color temperature, your colorspace, gamma, and additional post exposure correction you do.

For native color temp. I guess you could say it is the white point where the RAW color channels get equal values, but the problem there is that depends on what color space you're in, and I think the RAW primaries are not even close to any standard R,G,B primaries. You need a color matrix to rotate the raw chrominance vector into a usable color space. Maybe using Redcolor/Redgamma, you get most equally balanced exposure at near-daylight color temperatures and they settled on 5600K because that is a common standard (?)
 
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