red zooms for feature

[dolph]

I red the reviews on the lenses. Very interesting but have a specific question on combining the zooms with the primes. Next year I'm about to make a feature on the R1 and planning on buying a red1 soon.

Is that a good idea? I don't know the red lenses.

The feature is about slavery. 300 years ago and the look en feel will be warm and african like.
Here a link to a short impression what the look and feel will be about (don't pay attention historically its just an impression).
http://vimeo.com/4836781

[Greg M]

its done all the time

[dolph]

ok that's good to know

[Steve Sherrick]

Wow, great footage with the Pany 500. Looks like you'll get amazing results with an R1. If money is no object, I would go for the RED 18-85 zoom for those times when you need the flexibility of a zoom and the RED Pro Primes (25, 35, 50, 85, 100, 300) for everything else. That combination should get you excellent results with the R1. The primes are relatively fast (T1.8, except for the 300 which is T2.9). Combine those with beautiful lighting and you will have fantastic images. I have been very impressed with RED Pro lenses. The 18-50 and 50-150 are not quite in the same league, although they certainly wouldn't stop you from getting nice images. But the Pro lenses are where it's at. Perfect match for the camera.

[Thor Wixom]

I red the reviews on the lenses. Very interesting but have a specific question on combining the zooms with the primes. Next year I'm about to make a feature on the R1 and planning on buying a red1 soon.

Is that a good idea? I don't know the red lenses.

The feature is about slavery. 300 years ago and the look en feel will be warm and african like.
Here a link to a short impression what the look and feel will be about (don't pay attention historically its just an impression).
http://vimeo.com/4836781

I just shot a feature (camera op) with Steve Freebairn's Red Pro Primes + my Red 18-50mm. The lenses interchanged beautifully, and the RPPs were great to work with. I also shot another feature with Ultra Primes, and the RPPs are on par, if not better. I saw UPs and RPPs on a projector at NAB, and the RPPs were sharper all the way through the edges. Seemed to be consistent with what I saw in making the two features.

-Thor

[Juhan Malmstein]

hehe. If you got that out of a non-raw 2/3" panasonic then you can get anything out of anything shot in redcode with rpp's and red zooms (not to mention that most of the "warm look" will come from color correction anyway. By the look of the short clip in vimeo you should be able to do it no problem.