RED in Germany

[mezzoforte]

I think it is about time to start a German User Group for RED as I have never read such chauvinistic previews as those which appeared in German trade papers for "Professional Production" and for camera men since the last 12 months or so.

How about it German folks?

mezzo

[mezzoforte]

GUGRED would be nice nic name, BTW

[laguun]

100% agreed.

we should connect soon.
in berlin, i know of 3 people including us having cameras coming.
munich 2, among then ludwig with 10 (or 5+5) units as i understand
cologne and stuttgart i just -heard- of one each and i have no information (but an idea who it might be)

hamburg seems to be redless, as chromatv went f23 - i hope i am wrong on that one.

[Martin Ludwig]

hamburg seems to be redless, as chromatv went f23 - i hope i am wrong on that one.

No, hamburg will have red´s with us. we have a station there and stefan will be one of the happy ludwig guys to have one with him ! www.rental.de

[martinnoweck]

finally someone started the "GUGRED" ;-)

where are you located, mezzoforte?

kind regards,
martin

[Leif Thomas]

Ruhrgebiet is covered, too.

[Martin Ludwig]

once again - we at Ludwig have ordered 5 coming mid of october,
we can have another 5, another company ordered and will share with us.
they will come mid of novembre.

we have branches in cologne and hamburg !

[Manuel Wenger]

Count me in for munich

Manuel

[mezzoforte]

It is really great to see some German folks around here and engaged in this early on -- despite the initial cheauvinistic previews in our national trade papers early on.

Although I am a documentary film maker by myself, I am currently engaged with the Globians world & culture Documentary Film Festival project in Potsdam (http://www.globians.com). Our indy-documentary film festival takes part from August 11 - 19th, 2007 at Altes Rathaus, Potsdam-Innenstadt (next to Nikolaikirche). Our program schedule is online as pdf. We will show 72 films in 9 days and are still (hopefully for the last time) projecting in SD. The reason for this is: we are zero-funded by public-subsidies, the entire festival is private risc and we wanted to avoided sponsorship tapestry intensely, too.

Maybe we GUGREDs can meet for real for the first time at Globians Film Fest next week? How about it?

There we will be a "get together" of "Globians Film Makers" as part of our "Begleitprogramm" on Wednesday, August 15 at 16.00 h (4pm). This will be after the European Premier of "Women Behind The Camera" at 2pm also on Wednesday, 15th. -- Alexis Krasilovsky, the director of WBC, will be with us in person. I am sure the RED topic will also be of interest as this camera system will change everything, as is obviously looks like today.

After publishing the Cultural History of Cinematography for 15 years now as the editor of the "Weltwunder der Kinematographie" book series, I am really sure that RED will put film to rest, as least for the recording part.

The long-term storage however is still an unsolved issue and it seems to get even worse without magnetic storage while HDDs are being replaceced with Flash more and more.

So lots of topics to talk about. On Tuesday, August 14th at 5.30 pm (17.30 h, one day earlier) we also have scheduled the "Treffen der Tonbandfreunde" (meeting of the friends of magnetic tape). I am very curious how many will show up for this, too.

Sorry for writing so much. I would be happy if one or the other of your GUGREDs would show up as a sort of first GUGRED meeting during Globians Film Festival.


Joachim
today in mezzoforte mood

[Martin Ludwig]

nice idea joachim, but bavaria is now on holiday - me too overnext week, so we have to find a new place and date for septembre or octobre !