Archive for July, 2008

Meet the Five-Z

Fluorescent lighting is great stuff. Your lights stay relatively cool, they last practically forever, you get three or four times as many lumens per watt, and you have many more color temperature options than with tungsten. This last benefit is particularly relevant with Red, which delivers its cleanest image at around 5000K. Modern fluorescent bulbs [...]

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 [...]