What's Red Made Of?

[Elijah Kelley]

I hope to have my camera, lenses and accessories at the end of 2007 and have many colleagues who will want to borrow/rent my camera. So, that being said I just wanted to know on a pound for pound against a zeis or cooke lens how will the Red lenses stand up as far as wear and tear in a rental atmosphere. What's the housing made of on the lenses? Don't remember reading what alloy or composite the body of the lens is made of. Are answers out there in the forum or can someone offer up some specs?

[damonbots]

It's made from the blood, sweat and tears of the most crazy devoted sons 'o' #@!$#!% this side of the universe.
Camera body is aluminum (thanks guys), not magnesium alloy as I had previously suggested.
Not sure about lens casing

[CVB]

Think the body is aluminum now.

[chuck colburn]

Is it magnesium? I thought it was sugar and spice and everything nice! Or mayby aluminum.

[Adam C Lubkin]

Camera body is aluminum, but I think he's asking about the lenses.

[chuck colburn]

Oh...... In that case they're made out of glass (you hope)!

But seriously, so long as the internals are made of what ever combo of materials that assure a long wear life and precision fit and finish, I really don't see a problem with the outer shells being made from polycarbonate or some other high molecular weight plastic. If all they are doing is serving as a skin for the guts that would be fine in my book.
The gear rings on the other hand should be made of metal.

[Ace]

But seriously, so long as the internals are made of what ever combo of materials that assure a long wear life and precision fit and finish, I really don't see a problem with the outer shells being made from polycarbonate or some other high molecular weight plastic. I

Aluminium offers good heat dissipation though. The body of the camera can act as one big surround heat-sink.

[damonbots]

Gibby's studiodaily article gives a little insight into the build quality of the
18-50mm lens. Doesn't mention what it's made of, but a nice hands on report:

http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/7959.html

[chuck colburn]

Hi Acehole,

Yep aluminum is the classic heat sink material. I was talking about the lenses as adaml pointed out that was the original question.lol

Chuck

[Chris Gearhart]

The camera is made of glass?

And doesn't heat rise?

[Don Woods]

Its made of wishes... and Dreams... ok that is way to sappy. Its made of light weight bad ass aluminum

[Steven M. Bailey]

Recycled beer cans, duct tape(Nascar approved), and recycled coke bottles. The rest is magic.:unsure:

[Michael Ragen]

thought the body was made of aluminum alloy...

[John K]

:w00t:
I hope to have my camera, lenses and accessories at the end of 2007 and have many colleagues who will want to borrow/rent my camera. So, that being said I just wanted to know on a pound for pound against a zeis or cooke lens how will the Red lenses stand up as far as wear and tear in a rental atmosphere. What's the housing made of on the lenses? Don't remember reading what alloy or composite the body of the lens is made of. Are answers out there in the forum or can someone offer up some specs?
It's made of Unobtainite, which is the metallic allotrope of Unobtainium. Unobtainite has the remarkable property of Negative Inventory Rating (NIR) which basically means its per-pound cost is negative.

Approximately 6 pounds of Unobtainite are used to make the Red housing, which it costs about -$20,000 per pound, which is the real explanation for how they can sell a $100,000 camera for under $20,000.

Well, so Sony tell me:w00t:

[Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock]

:w00t:
Unobtainite has the remarkable property of Negative Inventory Rating (NIR) which basically means its per-pound cost is negative.


So, in the exact moment I dont pay the camera, I should have 17.500 .- appear in my account, right?

Jochen

[chuck colburn]

Recycled beer cans, duct tape(Nascar approved), and recycled coke bottles. The rest is magic.:unsure:

Those Coke bottles are important as the bottoms serve as oculars for the EVF.

[Steven M. Bailey]

Those Coke bottles are important as the bottoms serve as oculars for the EVF.

Right, and also the lenses. The length of the zoom depends on the size of the bottle.:sorcerer:

[Gregory Karydis]

aaargh, it's called aluminium!
Whatever, would be fun if it was made out of unobtainium though :)
It just dawned on me, how about a Vibranium Stabilizer? (sorry Cpt. America)

[chuck colburn]

Damn, All these years I've been spelling aluminum wrong.

[Don Woods]

I Still can't spell it

[Jonathan L. Bowen]

Is it magnesium? I thought it was sugar and spice and everything nice! Or mayby aluminum.

That's exactly what I was going to say, sugar and spice and everything nice, lol. Well done. ;)

[Casey Green]

"It's people! The RED ONE is made out of people! They're making our Cameras out of PEOPLE!" :help:

LOL

[Alex Boothby]

haha. Love that Soylent Green.

[Chris Gearhart]

"It's people! The RED ONE is made out of people! They're making our Cameras out of PEOPLE!" :help:

LOL

A captured soul of a Sony rep in each camera body. Imagine the eternal suffering involved.

[John K]

So, in the exact moment I dont pay the camera, I should have 17.500 .- appear in my account, right?

Jochen
Theoretically, yes. But now explain how you are going to get a camera without paying for it!

[Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock]

I cant, because a positive payment for a negative camera would get me nothing.
(...... stretching the joke far beyond its limits)

;-)

[Steven M. Bailey]

I cant, because a positive payment for a negative camera would get me nothing.
(...... stretching the joke far beyond its limits)

;-)

At least the negative camera should give you higher resolution and less grain!!:w00t:

[Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock]

A higher resolution on a negativ camera would not be desirable. Same with more negative grain.

......

Somebody stop me please.

Jochen

[Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock]

A captured soul of a Sony rep in each camera body. Imagine the eternal suffering involved.

I once recorded a voodoo ceremony in Benin,West Africa for a documentary. In order to get the gods goodwill a goat was sacrified. That goat´s spirit was supposed to be transfered into my DAT recorder (true story, no kidding. Its included in the Making Of, DVD commercially available).

I still have the machine.

Feeding it some hay from time to time....

Runs like a mule though....

Jochen

[Fergus Meiklejohn]

Maybe this would be Chinese approach to copying RED..

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EB0A60C6-965E-477B-BB7C-07006982E62D.htm

[Steven M. Bailey]

I once recorded a voodoo ceremony in Benin,West Africa for a documentary. In order to get the gods goodwill a goat was sacrified. That goat´s spirit was supposed to be transfered into my DAT recorder (true story, no kidding. Its included in the Making Of, DVD commercially available).

I still have the machine.

Feeding it some hay from time to time....

Runs like a mule though....

Jochen

So much for the "no animals were harmed in the making of..." disclaimer.

[Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock]

So much for the "no animals were harmed in the making of..." disclaimer.

Whole movie was a single barbeque.......

While we are on the subject of name dropping:

"Voodoo-Mounted by the Gods", Dir.: Alberto Venzago, Prod.: Wim Wenders

http://mountedbythegods.com/film.html

The goat trip: http://mountedbythegods.com/diary96.html

Can´t say that we went OT anywhere here .......

Jochen

[squinonescolon]

Sugar, Spice & Everything Nice
Steven