Development Process

[Jay A. Kelley]

I am curious, like some of you I still know a lot of people who refer to our camera as "that Red thing".

They really just don' t get it. I know one guy that does a LOT of feature films, and he's about to buy a VARICAM for shooting movies... Ouch big time.

One sceptical DP I know said he doesn't believe in RED's ability to accept different lens mounts.. Something about resolving the image on the chip. Now I am not tech savy enough to understand all the details, but I am curious if the RED team has gotten far enough along in the process to confirm they can indeed get all these mounts to work like they should with all these lenses.

I do believe the distance from the lens to the plane of the chip must be exact, or is that varying distance what the back focus is for? If this is the case, then I guess it would not have to be dead on exact.. Whatever, have they made this work yet?

Another question: I doubt I will get an answer here, but, aside from the chip, what has been the trickiest part of Red's development so far?

Jay

Jay

[acehole111]

I think that if theres enough distance leeway between the chip and the base of the lens mount, almost any type of lens adaptation is possible. Red would obviously design each lens mount with the proper distance from the rear element to the chip that is appropriate.

[Anders Holck]

Generally you would want the base distance from the film plane (Chip imager surface) to the front of the camera house to be as short as possible (within reason) and then control the filmplane to mount flange distance within the lens mount. It's always possible to extend the lenght but impossible to shorten it.

If you DP buddy has enough shows within the next year with his varicam, it can still be a very reasonable investment.

[donatello]

if RED says they are offering different mounts then that means all those mounts will work with correct distance ... do not under estimate RED ..
they are doing things that NO BODY else is doing !!!
i find too many Pro's are locked into very narrow mind set when they hear about RED - and i sort of see where they are coming from as it is way TOOOOOOO much to comprehend when one hears for the 1st time what RED is going to offer and then you hear the price and 1st reaction is always - NO way !!! .. they can't do _______ and they can't do _____ etc