DV article up.. inside Red, interview with Ted

[turing]

Well that answers my question about the sensor

Well that answers my question about the sensor

From the article:

Schilowitz: That's correct. Our sensor is being designed by our sensor team. It will not appear in any other camera on the market. It's not a sensor-for-sale to the market at large looking to create digital cameras, we did a lot of investigation early on, to see what was out there, and nothing was really suitable for what we wanted to achieve. We are building a sensor from the ground up for the Red camera. We don't have all those resources in-house of course, we don’t have our own foundry, that’s a highly specialized world that you outsource, but the design, the sensor IP is all ours. The Mysterium sensor is truly next generation technology, using the most modern processes out there.

This actually makes me believe they will be very successful - I saw a custom sensor as the only option as well.

Imagine a little pocket FireWire drive. A mini-FireWire drive that you could actually fit inside the camera and all of the ports that are typically on a FireWire drive--FireWire 800, 400, USB, maybe SATA

I'd love to have a pocket SATA drive that would consistently sustain over 200MB a second. That would be neato. Oh yeah, right, that doesn't exist

Actually he's probably talking about a little RAID3 of lappy drives just like the kinetta: a reasonably G-tolerant and fault-tolerant 'cartridge' with an onboard controller so it would actually act like a SATA or FW800 drive on a bus. I was VERY VERY VERY frustrated to see that panasonic didn't go this route with individual (or striped) lappy drives instead of those retarded cardbus cards. Yech.

At this point in time, it's an electronic viewfinder. But very next generation, high resolution technology.

OLED

...

250Mbits = 31.25 megs a second, which isn't actually insane. A helluvuh lot more realistic than uncompressed 4k

Multi-codec is insanely great

formats will be completely stepped, so you can shoot 1, 2, 3, 4... 17, 22... whatever

xlnt

either 4 or 8-channel audio on the camera. And then there's the ability to add something to go to 12 or 16 channels of probably baseline 48 kHz audio. And we're likely looking at 92 kHz and 192 kHz as well

haha this is the kinetta

Physically? [Takes a moment to calculate the number in his head.] At least 50 or 60 working on the project actively right now

Figure an average salary of US$80k per year... that's $4,000,000 up - change in the real world, but impossible for a tiinsy shop with a good idea (kinetta)

Anything involving the touch and feel of the camera is Jim's world.

so the camera will look like a cross between one of those comical quake 3 RPGs and an stealth fighter actually - very cool that there is one person whose job it is to ensure the ergonomics and the actualt tangible object are perfect.

DV: A 16 isn't going to cover a 24mm slide.


Schilowitz: No. So you'll basically have a little less coverage, but you'll have the ability to use a lighter lens and a little longer throw. You are still good for HD and even 2k probably not 4k with 16mm lenses, there you would want to use 35mm PL mount lenses. The idea is flexibility. There's no perfect machine to handle everything from PL down to B4, but you try to find a nice middle ground. And it looks like we're going to be best suited for 35mm and 16mm lenses.

VERY VERY smart. Very cool. I can get a cheap angenieux 10-150 or sth, shoot 2k with that, or rent + buy PL primes, etc. excellent.

Schilowitz: Why would I want to do a film scan at 2k or 4k or shoot with Red’s 4k sensor when I'm just going to deliver 720p as a broadcaster? Because you get this beautiful oversampled image you're taking down to HD. It's the same as why shoot 12 or 16 Mp on your digital still camera when you could probably shoot 2 Mp and it'd look just fine, but if you happen to want to blow it up to a poster, you've got the ability. It's a little heavier, but more resolution never seems to be a bad thing. See you at NAB!

That, and if you composite at 4k and interpolate down to 2k, you can be much more lazy with your masks, etc. Everything is easy when you are working in 2x your target res.

OOH, I want more, these people are doing what I want

_a

 

[Gibby]

There is a wealth of unreleased info about RED in my interview article with Jim Jannard that will post on Monday, including many more tech specs, pricing, accessory options, and several images of the camera prototype! Information on that interview is elsewhere on this forum.

Gibby
www.cut4.tv

 

[taubkin]

Everytime I read something about this camera I get convinced I'm going to own one of them at some point in time. Good thing I already started saving my pennies...

 

[Ted Red]

Thanks for all the excitement and interest! I'm buckled in tight as well... just don't know if the lap belt will hold me too well in the fighter jet Jim has strapped me into

Looking forward to meeting those of you here that are making the Trip to Vegas.... you all know what color to bet on

+ Ted

 

[Gibby]

It it ain't RED...you're DEAD!

 

[FullRez]

I guess I must have missed the posting about not having any footage at NAB. The article on DV.com was the first I heard.

 

[dustino]

I've only briefly looked around at the Red stuff until today when this article was emailed to me today by DV. As I read the story I got that mix of excitement and dread I always get when something revolutionary is happening in the tech world. The excitement, of course, is because this camera looks like it's actually going to happen and is going to be a dream come true for digital filmmaking. Sounds like all the elements and motivation are in place for all the right reasons.

The sense of dread comes from knowing that eventually I will obsess over 1) not having this dream machine or 2) paying off all the debt it takes to get this thing and all the necessary peripherals. Hell, my DVX was a monster purchase in my current financial world!

Even so, I'm happy to experience a little "dread" knowing what this thing might do for the independent film community. Bravo to Jim and his entire crew!

 

[Emanuel]

If you are waiting to see a full functioning finished camera with footage, accessories and ready to ship... just check in at the end of the year.

I will be there too.

 

[dvpixl]

Bat Cave!