Evolution of RED

[Brook Willard]

Ok, here's the first round. I'm currently only including camera renders as they are the only files that Jim gave explicit permission to post in this (http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2528) thread. With permission, I'll post all of the other files I have [including pictures of the camera, parts of the camera, frames from the camera, pictures of the test shoot sets and a few other miscellaneous files] in good time.

DISCLAIMER: These pictures are NOT all current and are NOT necessarily accurate representations of the camera as it is now or as it will be when it ships. This is for "historical" purposes only. There are no photos in here that were not released publicly on DVXuser.com, REDuser.net or RED.com; with a little digging, all of these pictures could still be found online. This is just a single location to get an at-a-glance look at the camera's evolution as we've seen it.

I'm sure I have missed a few pictures here. I also may have these pictures out of order. I'm posting them with labels including the dates the files were created on my computer [the day I downloaded them off of the three aforementioned websites]. I have also scaled a few pictures to save bandwidth.

The "placeholder" posts below are just so I can edit in additional pictures in the future, keeping the posted images at the head of this thread. They go up to the middle of page three, post 26. To skip to the discussion, click here (http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2595&page=3) and scroll down.

[Brook Willard]

On April 24th, 2006 at NAB 2006, the original RED ONE body was introduced.
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The body matured slightly through the coming months...
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[Brook Willard]

On June 23rd, 2006 at CineGear 2006, the body design was updated.
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On September 7th, 2006 at IBC 2006, the camera and accessories evolved once more...
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[Brook Willard]

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[Brook Willard]

After the Los Angeles 4K screening, the body underwent more changes.
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December 15th, 2006

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December 19th, 2006

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December 19th, 2006

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December 20th, 2006

[Brook Willard]

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December 20th, 2006

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December 20th, 2006

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December 21st, 2006

[Brook Willard]

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December 21st, 2006


On January 10th, 2007, The RED.com Photo Tour was updated with the following 35 pictures. They have been scaled from the originals.

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[Brook Willard]

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[Brook Willard]

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[Brook Willard]

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[Brook Willard]

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[Brook Willard]

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[Brook Willard]

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[Brook Willard]

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[Brook Willard]

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[Brook Willard]

http://www.reduser.net/forum/uploaded/5_1180212773.jpg
March 16th, 2007
Note the hard edge on the left side of the camera body around the RED logo where the flash ports install. Also note that the vertical "pin-striping" on the body is absent.

http://www.reduser.net/forum/uploaded/5_1180212794.jpg
May 8th, 2007
The smoother left side of the camera body was first introduced on April 16th, 2007 at NAB 2007, but this is the first render to feature the new, smoother body.

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May 14th, 2007

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May 14th, 2007

[Brook Willard]

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May 14th, 2007

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June 6th, 2007

This is the first photo I've posted in this thread - the rest are renders. With the appropriate green light, I'll post all of the photos I have.

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[Jarred Land]

You should change the title to the "Evolution of Red" or something similar...

and maybe have some sort of timeline if you can remember them.. other than that, this is a pretty good idea, nice work Brook.

[Brook Willard]

Changed the title. I'll add a timeline later today or tomorrow. Currently there are dates below the pictures which I hope are accurate. :)

[Jarred Land]

oops i didnt see those.. nice work man :)

[Brandon Fraley]

excellent, I hope you get a chance to add the OLD Red renders as well (I like to call them "baby pictures")

[Shawn Nelson]

Uh, Red still looks like this. It's not the 'evolution' unless you post pictures from early 06! Those would be cool to see again.

[Jay A. Kelley]

I agree with Shawn, need the shots from day one up to now.. Right now this thread would be better called "RED Photos".. In fact you may want to consider that Brook, this way you can just post photos without having to adhere to some guideline that makes life difficult

jay

[Brook Willard]

I agree... but I don't have those pictures! While I've followed the project since the "beginning," I only started saving the pictures late last year. If somebody has the pictures, please send them to me and I'll add them to the thread in the proper order. :)

I hope somebody has them! If not, I'm sure Jarred has them on a hard drive somewhere at RED... :)

[Matthew Lochman]

Hey Brook- this is exactly what I had in mind- thanks again brother! You are a life(time)-saver!
And thanks to you Jim (for permission) and Jarred (for the sticky)!
M@

[Matthew Lochman]

You should change the title to the "Evolution of Red" or something similar...

and maybe have some sort of timeline if you can remember them.. other than that, this is a pretty good idea, nice work Brook.

Pretty Good? frickin genius if I do say so myself!
:-)
M@

[dalemccready]

through the mists of time...

http://www.dalemccready.com/images/BLACK2-761028.jpg

[dalemccready]

and don't forget these...

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=70135

[Brook Willard]

Updated the thread with pictures sent to me by Sam Druckerman and found on various websites around the internet. I believe my dates and order are accurate, but I am not sure. If somebody has noticed a mistake, let me know and I'll change it.

[Rob Lohman]

Posts 3, 4 & 5 indeed contain renders from Curt. They weren't released by RED.

[Brook Willard]

Thanks for the heads-up, Rob. Edited out the non-RED images.

[Petr Dvorak]

thanx amazing, I must compare it with my collection .... but, where is Frankie?

[Brook Willard]

Frankie was never publicly rendered - she was only photographed.

[Matthew Lochman]

this thread has so much potential...

[Jannard]

This is the "breadbox". It had a 1/3" slice of the Mysterium sensor!

Check out the sticker...

Jim

http://www.reduser.net/forum/uploaded/9_1189472566.jpg

[Unwounded]

that is Awesome. From humble begininngs..... :)

[Joel Kaye]

Established 1999?

Logo better now than then. :-)

[JustinGD]

Hmmmmm, I think you just showed me how to save $17,500! To Home Depot!

[ChrisLyon]

Wooooow...

[J.D. Frey]

I don't know where these came from- but this was the first time I had any idea of the scale of the red. I remember thinking this was a picture of Franky- but I'm not sure if that's true.

http://www.deadworkers.com/files/red/001.jpg

http://www.deadworkers.com/files/red/002.jpg
http://www.deadworkers.com/files/red/003.jpg
http://www.deadworkers.com/files/red/004.jpg

[Shawn Nelson]

Whoa! I was combing through these and I *still* want that top bracket piece. Hey Jim or Jarred, any of these lying around the warehouse? It'd be nice to mount for a stripped down package.

http://www.reduser.net/forum/uploaded/5_1180212536.jpg

[Curran Giddens]

I remember thinking this was a picture of Franky- but I'm not sure if that's true.

I thought this was Frankie?

[Alexander Christ]

I thought this was Frankie?
Yes, her royal highness in person ;-)

[J.D. Frey]

sweet- I guess I never saw a picture of frankie until now.


after I first heard about red I think the first picture I saw was the bad ass tie fighter configuration- It was at that moment that I was sold:

http://www.reduser.net/forum/uploaded/5_1180294817.jpg

[nick allsop]

i can't wait to see more of these pre production shots in the Red 'making of' book.

[Gunleik Groven]

Yep

I remember the StarWars assosiation, too


Frankies PL mount looks a lot like todays RedMount.

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[Kyle Presley]

Wow, I have to say, I really like the first design renders the best. Very elegant.

[Benni Diez]

Yeah the first few silver ones are very sweet. Hope some of the style will go into Epic.
The actual Red One design, as cool as it may be, makes it look a lot heavier than the first ones.

[Johann Schulz]

Of course, the R1 was inside "Frankie", just like new models in an exotic car mag are hidden by various panels. Very cool!

But this trip down memory lane is poignant now because over a thousand potential R1s have fallen into filmmakers hands IN THE PAST MONTH ALONE!

I was about to start a new thread to commemorate the awesome progress of this private company, and then I found this nice little corner to post in.

New lenses, storage, the pro lcd, and what November brings. Holy cow! I even noticed that I can access RED here in Taiwan on a traditional Chinese webpage! That's new as of today, too! (Although Taiwan and surrounding islands are a 'bit' off in map-rendering, and I can't read much Chinese...).

Red Digital Cinema is now a player to be 'reconed' with. You can all still smoke, but the pipe dream is over - Red is reality!

[Michael T O'Connor]

Any news on the replacement of those placeholders??

In any case, the thread should probably be updated with the latest iteration of the "classic" RED camera, which I would presume is the EPIC-X. I'll post the current render. I expect it to change somewhat by the time it comes out...

http://red.cachefly.net/14/epic1.jpg

Although the prototypes at NAB were very similar, as far as I can tell.

[Stephen Gentle]

Most of the images in this thread have disappeared for me - were they lost when the forum went down?

[Brook Willard]

Looks like they got eaten by the great forum burp.