Red One
A lot of my "free" time this summer was spent helping Adam shoot his thesis film, Drawn. It was a really great experience that allowed me to meet some wonderful people, apply some knowledge and learn some cool stuff at the same time.
We shot the movie with a panasonic HD cam that was pretty sweet, a big leap from the last student film i worked on that was shot on 16mm film stock. It was very cool to see an HD video workflow and just how much easier it is than film. Nonlinear editing and no need for clumsy old steenbeck tables anymore! Technology really does grow by leaps and bounds and while you always hear about it and its various buzzwords its so cool to have firsthand experience with things that blow your mind.
During the filming I had read about a HD camera entering the market that was developed by a new camera company, Red Digital Cinema. A little research showed that the company was launched by Jim Jannard, the billionare founder of Oakley sunglasses. I'd always been impressed with Jim's story and the fact he's a photographer, but he became a hero when I learned that he came up with the concept of Red and put his own millions into the R&D and backing of the company.
The reason this camera had me so excited is that it promised to deliver full HD video rendering at a fraction of the cost of current HD studio cameras and in a package that was small and handholdable. Their first camera, Red One, uses a 12 megapixel CMOS sensor that is capable of recording data in a 4096 x 2304 pixel area. To put that in perspective, my go to camera, the Canon 5D, has a 12.8 megapixel CMOS sensor that captures data at a resolution of 4368 x 2912 pixels. Confusing numbers aside, what this means is that this is an HD movie camera capable of shooting video at nearly the same resolution as my still camera. Thats to say, if you plucked one frame from several seconds of video shot by the Red One it would have nearly the same image quality as one RAW file capured with a 5D.
That is just insane.
I just learned that this camera is out and what i've seen of it is mindblowing. I'm going to stop writing and acting like i know what i'm talking about and let the pictures speak for themselves. If you'd like to see more and learn more about the Red One you can view movies shot with it here. (check out the short "Crossing the Line" directed by Peter Jackson who filmed the movie on two of the Red prototypes.) Theres also the mention of the film "Guerilla" which is Steven Soderbergs biopic of Che Guevara , staring Bencio Del Toro (amazing)
If you don't want to sit through downloading any of those HD torents this video is just a test of random footage shot on the Red One by a filmaker in Paris. I don't know whats going on in it, but the footage is just beautiful.
We shot the movie with a panasonic HD cam that was pretty sweet, a big leap from the last student film i worked on that was shot on 16mm film stock. It was very cool to see an HD video workflow and just how much easier it is than film. Nonlinear editing and no need for clumsy old steenbeck tables anymore! Technology really does grow by leaps and bounds and while you always hear about it and its various buzzwords its so cool to have firsthand experience with things that blow your mind.
During the filming I had read about a HD camera entering the market that was developed by a new camera company, Red Digital Cinema. A little research showed that the company was launched by Jim Jannard, the billionare founder of Oakley sunglasses. I'd always been impressed with Jim's story and the fact he's a photographer, but he became a hero when I learned that he came up with the concept of Red and put his own millions into the R&D and backing of the company.
The reason this camera had me so excited is that it promised to deliver full HD video rendering at a fraction of the cost of current HD studio cameras and in a package that was small and handholdable. Their first camera, Red One, uses a 12 megapixel CMOS sensor that is capable of recording data in a 4096 x 2304 pixel area. To put that in perspective, my go to camera, the Canon 5D, has a 12.8 megapixel CMOS sensor that captures data at a resolution of 4368 x 2912 pixels. Confusing numbers aside, what this means is that this is an HD movie camera capable of shooting video at nearly the same resolution as my still camera. Thats to say, if you plucked one frame from several seconds of video shot by the Red One it would have nearly the same image quality as one RAW file capured with a 5D.
That is just insane.
I just learned that this camera is out and what i've seen of it is mindblowing. I'm going to stop writing and acting like i know what i'm talking about and let the pictures speak for themselves. If you'd like to see more and learn more about the Red One you can view movies shot with it here. (check out the short "Crossing the Line" directed by Peter Jackson who filmed the movie on two of the Red prototypes.) Theres also the mention of the film "Guerilla" which is Steven Soderbergs biopic of Che Guevara , staring Bencio Del Toro (amazing)
If you don't want to sit through downloading any of those HD torents this video is just a test of random footage shot on the Red One by a filmaker in Paris. I don't know whats going on in it, but the footage is just beautiful.
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