I just posted this over in the Birger Lens Mount Reservations thread on RedUser, in response to the recent flap over Birger’s Canon EF mount voiding the Red One’s warranty:

People seem more angry at Red than at Birger here. Can we have a bit of a reality check? As a third-party developer, it was Birger’s [...]

We spent yesterday evening shooting Red tests with on a Zeiss 25mm Superspeed lens. Um. Wow.

1K Clip, 4K frame. Exposed at ASA 320, T1.3. I didn’t quite get the focus (it’s hard at T1.3), and the framing isn’t great (trying to maneuver a Red while sitting in the passenger seat of a Honda Civic is [...]

Update: We’ve given up waiting on Birger. Read this.

We’ve made a fairly large decision about our Red package. We’ve decided (or at any rate are presently leaning heavily toward) forgoing Red’s lenses (and other much higher-priced cine glass) in favor of getting Birger’s Canon EOS lens mount.

I’ve discussed some of the tradeoffs with cine vs. [...]

There hasn’t been much news out of Red lately, but there are a few tidbits tonight:

First off, as people who read this blog probably know, Red has run into some last minute delays. Jim Jannard posted a bit on that tonight:

I wish I had good news. The reality is that we are close [...]

There has been a lot of interest, among folks trying to save money, in using 35mm photo lenses rather than cine lenses, which tend to cost literally a couple of dozen times as much.

Why are cine lenses so much more expensive? A lot of it comes down to simple volume. I’ve read that Cooke sells [...]