BOMB EVF (OLED) - First Impressions and Review

[Curran Giddens]

The original RED EVF was made by Accuscene out of Scotland.
http://www.accuscene.com/viewfinder.html

They produced the best EVF's on the market. Jim bought the company. The new EVFs are made in Germany. And I'm sure they are still using some of the same IP that was acquired from Accuscene.

Can you post the specs for Red's Oled? Who else makes Oled evf? I don't t think Red makes LCDs and EVFs. Someone (most likely Japenese or Korean) manufacturer made it. If it's not Sony's, the other big player is Samsung. However, if Samsung had such an EVF they would have used it in the new NX20.

[Rehan K]

The original RED EVF was made by Accuscene out of Scotland.
http://www.accuscene.com/viewfinder.html

Thanks for the info.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

As I understand it, the new OLED EVFs are assembled (or upgraded) here in the USA now.

[Curran Giddens]

As I understand it, the new OLED EVFs are assembled (or upgraded) here in the USA now.

Right. It was the old Bombs that were made in Germany.

[Steven Caesare]

Not to be rude, but does it really matter who makes the display?

Dimensions are slightly larger than 1280x720, I can't find the exact numbers, as the previous thread w/ specs was deleted.

Vertical resolution on the new OLED EVFs is 848, I bleieve.

-sc

[Trevor Meeks]

Vertical resolution on the new OLED EVFs is 848, I bleieve.

-sc

That does sound right, thanks Steven.

[Rehan K]

Can we get the exact specs for the Red's EVF? When the Sony's EVF was released last year (A77, Nex-7), it was declared as the best EVF ever made (DPRreview, Imaging-Resource). IR devoted a whole section on that EVF in their review

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/AA65/AA65A3.HTM

That's the still/dslr version of the EVF. As far as I know, the camcorder version of that EVF has not (yet) been used on any camcorder (as of this date).

I was just speculating that Red was the first camcorder to use that Oled EVF in a camcorder.

The technologies involved in developing something like this are very high tech (several billion dollars in semi-conductor manufacturing resources plus R&D). Obviously it's not a trivial task.

[Harrison Diamond]

it's certainly not that one, Rehan. The panel in that is 1024x768, while the panel in the Red OLED Bomb is 1280x848, matching the vertical resolution of the old Red One EVF.

[Rehan K]

it's certainly not that one, Rehan. The panel in that is 1024x768, while the panel in the Red OLED Bomb is 1280x848, matching the vertical resolution of the old Red One EVF.

No, the SLR version is 1024x768. The camcorder version is 1280 x 720

http://www.sony.net/Products/SC-HP/c...cx331_332a.pdf

yeas, slightly different but very close

[Rehan K]

The SLR version 1024x768, .. the camcorder version is 1280 x 720

http://www.sony.net/Products/SC-HP/c...cx331_332a.pdf

yeas, slightly different.

It's actually 1280 x RGB x 720 == 2.8 million dots ..
And the SLR version 1024 × RGB × 768 = 2.4 million dots