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Sunday, March 02, 2008

Red One Unboxing - Part 1

Pics and details of what you get when your Red One arrives

Red 18-50 Zoom

The Red 18-50 Zoom was the first lens that Red shipped. The one I own was one of the first ones shipped (complicated backstory). It comes with end caps (of course) and comes in a box with two foam ends for it to safely travel in:

And here is the lens itself:

More on it later, but there it is. One nice feature - it has the Cooke /i Intelligent hardware built in:

PICTURE OF /i CONNECTORS HERE

This will, once enabled in firmware and software, allow a frame by frame recording of lens metadata - your iris, zoom, and focus settings would be known and recorded rather than have to be inferred by the VFX folks in post.

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Hey Mike,
Congrats on your new baby!

You might want to chat with Jim Mathers of DCS about the improvements to the current run. His #30 was swapped out for 30X. At our RED Event last Saturday he talked about the differences (improvements) between the beta models and his replacement. Jim’s an apples vs apples kind of guy.
Best,
Simon.

Posted by Simon Sommerfeld  on  03/03  at  02:05 PM

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Sounds like we need Jim Mathers to talk about it here for everyone to share.  I for one would be interested in learning about the differences.

Posted by  on  03/03  at  03:24 PM

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Jim is a great resource of information, and although he’s an early RED adopter, he’s not a fan boy by any means.

FYI, we recorded our DCS NorCal/Pacific North West RED event on video, and a condensed program will be available for viewing on the DCS website in a couple of weeks. Right now, you can watch coverage from our previous RED sessions, and read an extensive on-set write-up of the camera at http://www.digitalcinemasociety.org Look for the RED content under “RED ONE Rollout”.

Best,
Simon Sommerfeld

Posted by Simon Sommerfeld  on  03/03  at  06:05 PM

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Hi, Mike!
I see you had really a great time while unpacking all that stuff;)
Good luck with using.

Posted by Helly T  on  08/27  at  12:22 AM

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