What does a 1917 35mm motion picture camera and the RED One have in common?

[Greg M]

What does a 1917 35mm motion picture camera and the RED One have in common?

http://www.digitalfx.tv/blog/2009/9/11/what-does-a-1917-35mm-camera-and-the-red-have-in-common

[Noah Kadner]

They both shot Crossing the Line?

http://www.digitalfx.tv/assets/uploads/1/images/Dyer/Dyer.original.jpg

Noah

[Julio Quintana]

Very cool...

[Greg M]

They both shot Crossing the Line?

http://www.digitalfx.tv/assets/uploads/1/images/Dyer/Dyer.original.jpg

Noah

Well, the Akeley was used extensively in WWI, so it shot the real deal.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Nice blog entry, Greg! :)

The Akeley camera really only served in the final months of WWI, not much more than a year at most, as the war ended with the Armistice Treaty in November 1918. However, the camera did gain a loyal following very quickly. It was by no means the most widely used camera of the war, but almost certainly would have been, if it had arrived earlier. There were tons of pancakes in service through the Great Depression and into the first years of WWII. By the end of WWII, there were much more serviceable film cameras in the field with superior optics and the pancakes had all but been left behind.

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread. :gnorsi:

Interesting and nice parallel you established between these two camera revolutions.

[Greg M]

Thanks Jeff...actually the Akeley was first made in 1914. I have dated my model (shown) to 1917 based on the serial number. I agree it wasn't the most widely used, but it was a popular choice.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Cool, didn't know about the 1914 thing, I thought they were a late 1916 thing. :)

I've only played with one once and at the time I had no idea what it was, other than just "a really, really old camera." Other than that, I've only seen pictures and read about them. Seen one or two in a display case at one point or another. That's cool you have one and it looks to be in decent condition. Does it still work? I've got a nice collection of "old shit" myself, but my oldest camera dates back to 1948 or thereabout. Definitely post WWII, but before 1950.

Now I've really hijacked the thread. Sorry.

[Greg M]

so much hate for Red...wassup:
http://www.cinema5d.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=5261&p=36730#p36730

[Stuart English]

Beats me, but totally fascinated by the comment that Sony and Canon have caught up....

[Greg M]

Now they have deleted my post, saying I was advertising for Red. WTF!

[Martin Weiss]

so much hate for Red...wassup:
http://www.cinema5d.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=5261&p=36730#p36730
that site looks like a waste of time. They've made up their minds - so let them live with their crappy footage. In the end they'll learn it the hard way...

[Pietro Impagliazzo]

Nevermind them, looks like the moderator is a fanboy who felt threatened.

Great blog post.


that site looks like a waste of time. They've made up their minds - so let them live with their crappy footage. In the end they'll learn it the hard way...

Indeed.

One guy there called the DSLR's video "extremely capable" comparing to Scarlet.

Well, if that's good enough for them, leave 'em there.

[Martin Weiss]

one guy there called the DSLR's video "extremely capable" comparing to Scarlet.

Well, that shows that he just doesn't know what he's talking about. Especially since there has nit been any Scarlet footage released.

[Imran Farouk]

clearly wrote it so nicely and elgantely that it looked like propaganda...

I don't understand though how some of those guys can sat that everything is buggy,I'm running rocket,get the support and now mines flying...no issues so far...Red Alert same...my RED cam isn't up yet but those I've worked with ran fine...build 20 too....I asked the operator if he'd had any issues and he said none, they've been back to back all week since they got b20 up and no issues...(doubt he was lying too)
it's not a SOLID camera,it's still developing but I'd hardly call it buggy, the showing of the mock for Epic-X should at least shut this vaporware talk...it's physically there...it's just the internals that'll be tweaked...don't any of these people feel stupid when things are being done infront of them and yet they still call vaporware?
Esquire certainly isn't calling vaporware...or buggy...

Anyway I just get annoyed whenever I see people rushing to give their bad expierences...

on a happy note,You did a great job in the blog,it's true that RED are innovators of today...Jannards on that top 20 digital contributors list...

[Jeremy_Sawatzky]

ROFL at that mthomas guy in the comments, canon will probably have a D1 something in 2010 that will beat the scarlet.... roflroflrofl. what we've got there is a little 5d fanboy feeling threatened. he jumped into the wrong boat. but he will come to his senses and red will have to pull him outa the water into their boat. lol