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RED squashes major bug, EPIC and Scarlet back on track

July 6, 2010 Doug Groves digital cinema, EPIC, Jim Jannard, Red, reduser, Scarlet1 Comment

After a major delay to a major bug in their new designs, RED is back on track with the EPIC and Scarlet cameras. Originally estimated to come out in 2009, the delays on the new digital cinema cameras were hitting ValveTime levels of unpredictability. RED founder Jim Jannard had this to say in a post last night… …we have located the wicked, mean and nasty bug and our engineering team has put a bullet in the back of it’s head. That pesky bug has put us behind in our schedule…

DSLR talk back from RED founder Jim Jannard

June 21, 2010June 21, 2010 Doug Groves DSLR, HD DSLR, Jim Jannard, Red, RED One, reduser, Scarlet, Zacuto, Zacuto Shootout4 Comments

Just last week, I was having a discussion with with a co-worker about video recording on the new breed of DSLRs, and mentioned that if RED doesn’t get it’s butt in gear, they could very well concede the prosumer market to the likes of Canon and Nikon. As more pro filmmakers start putting the DSLRs through stress tests, they’ve finding time and again that the results are much better than initially expected. It’s not surprising that a similar discussion has been going on in the reduser forums, in which RED…

RED Scarlet: Film resolution for the rest of us?

December 1, 2009 Doug Groves Red, Scarlet3 Comments

The RED ONE camera has been around for a while now, showing it’s chops as a replacement for analog film for a couple of years. Since then, Red also annouced two new cameras, including the Scarlet which is aimed squarely at the prosumer market. Well, the details are out thanks to the RED user forum, and although they added a little more ‘pro’ to the pricing than originally announced, the specs are pretty impressive. The ‘all-in-one’ Scarlet fixed 8x lens and brain will be priced at $4750 (US). This price…

Red Ray Player demoed at NAB

April 27, 2009April 27, 2009 Doug Groves NAB, Red, Red Ray4 Comments

The 2009 NAB expo has wrapped up, and one of the more interesting products demoed to a small group has to be REDs Red Ray Player, a $1000 playback device that will display 4K resolution video from standard DVDs. To give you an idea of the resolution, most cinemas currently project film at 2K resolution, which is 2048 lines of horizontal resolution, or about twice as much as 1080p. What makes the Red Ray player even more impressive is not the resolution, but it’s compression technology, uses wavelets to describe…

RED Announces New Cameras & Accessories

April 14, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves Red1 Comment

RED, the makers of the hard to come by, 4K digital camera RED ONE, have made a number of new product announcements at the latest NAB show. The first big announcement is of their mini version of the ONE, dubbed the Scarlet, which shoots 3K footage to dual Compact Flash cards, at the cost of about $1000 per K (or $3000). If you’ve been drooling over the ONE, but found the $17,500 price tag a bit steep, the Scarlet might be the next best thing to sliced bread, until you…

Will the Red Camera become the category killer, simply a model to follow, or neither?

September 21, 2007March 26, 2009 James Moore Red0 comment

It seems like a good idea – A ‘black box’ with high res imaging chips (12-megapixel Mysterium™ CMOS sensor) that you can stick your own lens on. Elegant, high quality, and pretty cost effective. It seems like an elegant solution which could get even cheaper as others emulate it. Visit Red to see more.