RED still camera

[Jeremy Hughes]

I know, with a company called Red Digital Cinema Camera Company, they make cinema cameras. And I also know this has been discussed before. And also it may be too soon for this. But if they can make such a revolutionary cinema camera, why not make a revolutionary still camera? A lot of the same technology can be applied to this new camera: Advanced wavlet based JPEG 2000 compression for RGB images, using wavlet compression on a RAW bayer images, Mysterium sensor with a really high dynamic range, Cooke lenses, a 320GB hard drive.

What do you think? What else could be possible with the current technology?

[Graeme Nattress]

Haven't you just described RED ONE though?

Graeme

[Akcelik]

if you were to shoot at 50 fps, that would give the option of choosing your *decisive moment* in post!

go on, take a pick! any one you want!

[Policar]

The thing is, you can't really make disruptive technology in the dSLR sector since the market is quite mature. The Digital Rebel is like $600 and has all that and more.

Also, who uses a Cooke lens (I guess besides medium format) on a still camera? Someone who has $100,000 to blow on lenses and might as well just buy a digital back in the first place.

[Corrado Silveri]

But... If you already have the camera in your hands...

Why not?

Think about an action shooting, a sport shooting, even a portrait.

You have a LOT of picture to select. Everyone at a smart quality.

You need only to take the frame you want, extract, send to Photoshop for your basic/advanced manipulation. And you're done.

[Jeremy Hughes]

Oh and since the RED ONE is so much higher resolution than than most cameras, six times High Definition, make it six times the resolution of the 1Ds MkII! 96MP!

I don't know...

[Graeme Nattress]

And to find a lens with that resolution :-)

Graeme

[Gregory Karydis]

Truth be told, I just found out I will have to pay 33% at customs to import my Red camera so I am seriously entertaining the idea of selling my Eos 1Ds and 5D to cover the extra expenses and use the Red camera to shoot stills too :)

[Graeme Nattress]

Nutman - where are you based? Is that Sales tax + duty or just duty. As a business I'd assume you'd get back the sales tax?

Graeme

[Rob Lohman]

My guess would be in Europe, sounds about right (import duty wise).