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 [...]

Right here. They’re 8-bit JPEGs, so you’re not seeing a lot of what’s there in the real footage. Jim Jannard has said we might get a couple of TIFF files as well, presumably 16-bit, which would be great for seeing what the sensor can actually do.

Also, apparently some 1K video clips should be posted later [...]

Just a few tidbits I’ve picked up since the first podcast, from various sources (mostly Reduser.net and other podcasts):

Red lenses

Red’s 18-50mm zoom should be shipping fairly early. This is good news. It’s the obvious choice for anyone on a budget who doesn’t already have PL-mount glass. (A future post will discuss some of the tradeoffs [...]

In this AppleInsider article.

A few points:

The codec was designed both for low file size and low CPU utilization. Performance scales almost linearly when adding processors/cores There’s a “half-resolution decoding method”. Might mean ProRes is wavelet.

Update: Looks like the info comes from this Apple white paper.

Discussion of FCP 4K support, new Motion features, ProRes, IO-HD, Color, new Red lenses, and the future of indie cinema.

This is our first podcast. My parter in crime for this debut episode was Pierce Varous, one of the other two people in that three man operation alluded to in the ‘About the Author’ box.

This was [...]