Archive for the 'Red' Category

Red /i and audio board upgrades

See announcement here.

We are preparing for the upgrade for the i/pin upgrade program, and this will unfortunately require sending the camera back to RED for installation. The good news is.. we have taking this opportunity to also redesign the Audio board in parallel, resulting in audio performance that is vastly, [...]

Giving up on Birger

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 [...]

In defense of compression

There’s a certain demographic which seems to sit around thinking of reasons why the Red One can’t possibly be any good. We’ve all run across these arguments. One that has really been bugging me recently is the notion that RedCode compression somehow constitutes, essentially, cheating; that Red shouldn’t really be considered a high-end camera because [...]

Red releases first Build 16 firmware beta

We’re still here, we’ve just been rather busy. Regular updates should start again… about now.

See major new features and menu map. Camera owners can, of course, get it in the usual place.

The biggest enhancements are related to image quality. Red appears to have rather dramatically reduced compression artifacts and noise levels. 16:9 4K is also [...]

Epic mythology

I haven’t previously posted anything about the Epic, Red’s new $40,000 5K camera. Why? Mostly because I’ve been trying to gauge reaction, and figure out just where it fits into the market. As usual, this post assumes you’ve already read the information on the Epic’s tech specs; I’m going to focus on what it all [...]