Mysterium sensor...

Jannard

Jannard

Red Leader
The heart of our camera is the Mysterium® sensor. We stated before that we had images from a "test slice" that proved the design of our sensor. Now we have images from a full size sensor. We still have a long way to go, but there is considerable celebration in our camp. We expect that we are currently on schedule for showing 4k images in the fall (knock on wood).

Jim
 
Thanks for the update jim.

That footage in the fall (assuming its good) is gonna be the highlight of a rather boring summer for alot of people.
 
Jim, when did you start developing the Mysterium sensor? I figure its been in the works for som time, right? Have you seen any 4k images yet?

Jarred, some post... Can´t wait...
 
Jim also announced the body has taken a totally new design again, The throughput of grey matter over there is incredible.
 
A 1,000 mile (or kilometer!) journey has a collection of waypoints. Getting images from the full-sized sensor is definately a key waypoint...

Congratulations to the RED development team! Thanks for keeping everyone in the info loop - something very few manufacturers do for us.

Looking forward to IBC!

Gibby
RED camera #8
www.cut4.tv
www.4umat.com
 
fall demo

fall demo

Dear Mr. Jannard:

I humbly request that memebers of DVXuser be able to request what scenes are filmed for the demo in the fall. I saw a demo of the SONY XDCAM-HD. What impressed me most was the filming of red flowers. I made a DVD of flowering trees with a Canon GL1 and used Final Cut Pro. I am lookoing to move up to HD. I am considering the RED camera. The scenes that gave my camera the most problems were sunlit red flowers with backlit green leaves against a clear blue sky. The color red causes "bleeding" or "chroma crawl." The color green when fully saturated appears yellowish. The color blue, due to its weaker wavelength and required amplification, causes noise. Also if a flower moves slighty in the wind, but not enough for GOP compression codecs to detect it, the compressed video can apear jerky at the boundaries of the GOP. A backlit tree can cause purple fringing at the edge of the leaves.

My request for the demo is to film bright red flowers against a clear blue sky with a slight wind blowing. If RED can do that, I am sold.

Please form a thread in this forum where other DVXusers can request what senes they would like to see that would be a test of RED.

Thankyou,
acrochordon
 
Our plan is to put our "breadbox" into the hands of trained professionals and let them put the camera through it's paces as they see fit. We won't encourage or discourage them as to what they shoot or how they shoot it. The names lining up for this exercise is pretty impressive. My fear is that if we start making a list of things to shoot, we will never satisfy everyone. Our goal is to have three or four great pieces to show at IBC. Much more shortly after. Plenty of stuff before we ship.

Jim
 
Hi Jim!

Good news! When are you saying "FALL" and "IBC" maybe you must say September instead a period of time of THREE months* that ends in the next December 21st or am I wrong?

Emanuel

* a considerable amount of time for anxious people that are waiting since a long time ago perhaps even before than the RED's announcement of the last December...
 
acrochordon said:
My request for the demo is to film bright red flowers against a clear blue sky with a slight wind blowing. If RED can do that, I am sold.
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My request for the demo is to shoot empty Starburst wrappers (tropical flavor only!) on a table made of tofu with flamingos in the background giving birth. If RED can do that, I am sold.



...come on people.
 
Haakon said:
My request for the demo is to shoot empty Starburst wrappers (tropical flavor only!) on a table made of tofu with flamingos in the background giving birth. If RED can do that, I am sold.



...come on people.
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That is the funniest thing I've seen today!! :grin: :grin:
:thumbsup:
 
Isaac_Brody said:
I want footage out of a hotel room in Amsterdam. :thumbsup:
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How about footage INTO a hotel room in Amsterdam...oops! sorry not on this site. :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)
 
I pray you are in contact with Steven Soderbergh, it would be wrong, a tragedy to cinema, for him to not be included in this evolution of filmmaking.

I'd like to remind those who have forgotten about Steven Soderbergh's oscar acceptance speech after winning Best Director for Traffic. “Rather than thank some of them publicly, I think I’m going to thank them all privately, I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating. I don’t care if it’s a book, a film, a painting, a dance, a piece of theater, a piece of music. Anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us. I think the world would be unlivable without art.”
 
My life would be unlivable, literally, without science. Art's great, yeah, but it's a luxury.
 
Kubrick71,

A point of trivia on Steve Soderberg: he began his filmmaking career producing/directing/shooting surfing films in the late '70's/early '80's. Right from the start he showed good talent for capuring aesthetics and telling the story.

His early surfing films: "A Matter of Style" (1980), "Ocean Fever" (1980's), and "Ticket to Ride" (1983). In the mid to late '80's he started making the transition to feature films.

If you'd like to check out his early surfing films, here's a link:

http://www.obsurfshop.com/Surfshop/Videos/195.html

Like many of the top-tier directors and filmmakers, Soderberg has been real versatile in the genres of film they work in.

Like Soderberg, my start in motion media production was in surfing films, alternative sports, and adventure travel in the late '70's/early '80's. Then I branched into multiple other genres of production. A couple of my previous surfing documentaries (1997), which aired on Outdoor Life Network (OLN), are contained on a DVD carried on the same index that Soderberg's are. Here's a link:

http://www.obsurfshop.com/Surfshop/Videos/245.html

Long before Soderberg hit the "big time" he was a grassroots indie filmmaker. I would think Steve Soderberg would be highly interested in RED. With Soderberg’s alternative sports filmmaking roots, that paralleled the time frame of the development of Oakley, and Jim Jannard being the founder of RED, it seems like a perfect fit for collaboration.

Gibby
RED camera #8
www.cut4.tv
www.4umat.com
 
Soderberg has always been a fan ofdigital filmmaking.. too bad Full Frontal was a disaster for Canon. As Gibby stated i think hes a perfect fit.. I would say even a little more then even Mann, as long as he doesnt butcher the footage :)
 
"breadbox"

"breadbox"

Breadbox. So that is the secret internal code word RED engineers use? Hummmm. I call my Mac G5 my cheese grater.
 

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