Jul 13
Lasers are bad for your eyes
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Apr 04
Slow motion was invented to capture every single thing in slow motion. Explosions, cheetahs, robots, people and of course, hummingbirds. The detail you see in slow motion is always better than real life. What’s amazing though is that even when you slow down a hummingbird, those damn birds still seem fast. But ticking down those wings for just a little bit brings out something new in them. They look so graceful! More »
Nov 01
Competition is heating up in the high-end digital cinema market, and Red is responding with a slew of massive price cuts. According to CEO Jim Jannard, this “attitude adjustment” is simply a benefit of scaling up production, yielding a decrease in component and assembly costs, and an enormous reduction in assembly time — the first Epic took 12 hours to build, while current models require just 13 minutes. As a result, the Epic-M has dropped to $24,000 (from $39,500), the Epic-X is now $19,000 (formerly $34,500), the Scarlet is $7,950 (from $9,700) and the EOL’d One MX is priced at $4,000 (once $25,000). The Dragon sensor upgrade will not be included with any new Epic models, and will remain priced at $6,000. Red customers who took the plunge on cameras with former pricing within the last month (on or after October 1st) will receive a discount off future accessory purchases of $4,000 for Epic and $1,000 for Scarlet. With this latest round of discounts, Red cameras are by no means inexpensive, but they’re certainly more affordable. If you were already planning to pick one up, Christmas just came a couple months early.
[Thanks, Mike]
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Red gets Epic price cut, drops M, X and Scarlet brains by up to 45 percent originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug 10
Red claims Dragon is ‘single most significant sensor in the history of image capture’
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Red Camera’s bombastic CEO, Jim Jannard, says that internal testing of the new 6K Dragon sensor proves that it’s the new “resolution and dynamic range king.” He also claims it will be “the cleanest sensor you have ever seen, ISO 2000 looks better than MX [the current sensor] at ISO 800.” The imaging chip was first outed at NAB in April, promising 15+ stops of DR and 120fps at a full 5K of resolution, with $6,000 upgrades for Epic customers by the end of the year. Owners of the $9,700 (brain only) Scarlet-X will also get the Dragon, though no price or date has been given yet for that camera. Needless to say, some independent testing will be needed to substantiate his claims, but Jannard sure does sound confident.
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Red claims Dragon is ‘single most significant sensor in the history of image capture’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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