Graeme..give us some news..Anything!!

[david farland]

Firstly........CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Second......Any more news!!!

Cheers,


Below is the story WE know so far......



Product Announcements:

RED is developing a new Professional Pocket Camera (miniature RED camera)
RED is developing a new line of 4k displays
RED is developing a 4k projector
New Prime Lens set (15mm f2.8, 25mm f1.9, 35mm f1.9, 50mm f1.9, 85mm f1.9)
New Zoom Lens (18-50mm) priced at $5900 on Gibby's report and initial lens pages, $6500 in store. Unknown whether 18-85mm no longer exists at this moment
Canon EOS lens mount produced by Birger Engineering and Red
SuperGrip - Presumably a variation upon the current handles available for the RedRail/Cage setups, including remote control of Canon EOS lens mount as well as...
Red Motor, very little information about this, is listed on the new Pricelist page, presumably a motorized follow focus since it is listed along with the SuperGrip as a lens accessory. MORE INFO PLEASE
RedArm reduced from $175 to $120/125, also re-included with LCD Screen for freeOther

Tentative Shipping (http://www.red.com/news/view/79) list posted
Peter Jackson and co. have produced a short for display at NAB, no reports back as yet
Gibby's first Studio Daily report (http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/headlines/7959.html) is up, second one to follow.
First screenshot of RedCine (http://www.red.com/workflow.shtml) made available
Online Store (http://www.red.com/store/) opensAway from NAB

We've recorded the highest number of user on RedUser.net... hehehe... wow
We've had a good ol' whine because we keep breaking the website, especially the storeStill seems like a lot of things to come, of great anticipation is the magic focus we've all been waiting to hear about. Pictures from the tent of the actual event would be great to see too. Also any reviews of other products of interest to Red users, such as View Factor Studios or Redrock's Matte box and wireless follow focus system and more would be of interest. Doesn't seem to be much reporting being done at the moment. If anyone at NAB has anything more to add or if I've missed something out please give us lonesome buggers some more gossip!

[Adrian T.]

Congrats, Graeme!
And please take a look at the "Unanswered Questions" thread:
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1591

[Ronnie Silos]

I was just with Graeme. He looks tired!!! The booth is a madhouse. I'm not sure he can respond to this right now 8-)

[PaulClements]

Hasn't anyone at NAB actually asked about the magic focus assist? I thought this was possibly the longest running question every one at RedUser had!

Even a "No info available at this time" would suffice to a small degree :)

[Gabriel C.]

Please give us something on this.

[Evan Owen]

I saw the focus assist (sorta).

It wasn't advertised very much in the booth, partly due to the fact that all the cameras were early prototypes with none of the extra 'features' enabled. What I did see was a 'demo' of the focus assist feature that gave a pretty good idea how it works.

Basically, it's a waveform/histogram type display at the bottom of the screen showing the average level of 'sharpness' (focus) for the given column of pixels. I can see how it would be useful in most cases, but I'm sure there are a few times when not knowing the average sharpness of a row of pixels will be limiting (unless they plan on implementing this too).


Hasn't anyone at NAB actually asked about the magic focus assist? I thought this was possibly the longest running question every one at RedUser had!

Even a "No info available at this time" would suffice to a small degree :)

[GeoffreyRDavis]

anyone in Melbourne interested in an ownership partnership????

I would prefer to own and thoroughly learn the post-camera/post-production part of the workflow. I would love to team up with a compatible nutter who wants to own the camera end of the work flow.

We intend to start shooting our feature Oct 07 or thereabouts depending on a couple of things (including camera availability).

So ... you own your bits (camera & lenses etc) ... I own mine (hard drives, editing and post gear, computers, software etc.) .. we "borrow" according to agreed schedules .... if it doesnt work we take back our "bits"

Anyone interested?

Geoff

[david farland]

Geoff, Post this in the Red user Group...RED in OZ thread.

Cheers,

[Graeme Nattress]

Yup, I'm tired. But excited to see all of you in the RED tent. See you tomorrow.

Graeme