Hasselblad vs RED Epic for stills.

[Jarred Land]

Very interesting comparison that Peter Hurley did over at Lee Morris's F Stoppers. Obviously there is a native resolution difference, ( 14.4 vs 22mpix ) but the results are worth watching.

http://fstoppers.com/hasselblad-vs-red

[Corrado Silveri]

Oh, gosh.

[James Mccloud]

This is very interesting. I am a HUDGE Hasse fan and user. My whole portfolio is made up of Hasse images. But wow!

[Martin Stevens]

Nice post! Thanks Jarred.

[Justin Kirchhoff]

I watched this earlier today, Jarred. I was excited, happy, impressed. Soon enough we'll have 22MP motion!

[James Mccloud]

I still think Hasse takes the cake on dynamic range. That thing has AMAZING latitude.

[Marden Blake]

It's very close to the image quality of a hassy, and goes to show why we need a flash trigger for the RED. Would help us photographers out a lot. Like Peter Hurley said, it feels awkward at times.

[Häakon]

Really enjoyed the video... it seemed balanced, open, and honest. Obviously each method has pros and cons, but it does show the viability Epic has for the creative user.

The one thing this overlooks, however, is that the "shooting motion for stills" approach only works with continuous lighting. Many photographers use strobes at levels that would cook their subjects if they were outputting that power continuously. It's my understanding that RED will have compatibility with flashes to enable it as more of a still-mode type camera in the future, but this video was specifically about pulling frames from a video stream to use as images. There are situations where that type of shooting is just not possible lighting-wise.

With that in mind, it was fun to watch and I really liked how excited he seemed to get when the lightbulb of potential went off as he was playing with the images in REDCINE.

[Brad Allen]

Couple of interesting points he made:

Longer workflow: I'd never really considered this for post time but I guess it makes sense in his setting. For me, scrubbing through the timeline is quite a fast process and finding the right still only takes a really short amount of time. I actually love the flexibility. It means you find moments that you didn't even know occurred while shooting, and it ensures that you don't miss that actual moment you were planning on capturing.

Cost: Peter mentioned that the EPIC kit he was using was worth about 80k. What I found interesting is that for Peter's purposes, a scarlet shooting at 12fps in 5k would fill his needs just as much as an EPIC would. Being that he's not looking for slow-mo and is only looking to pull stills and not motion from the footage he shoots, there is already a lower priced entry point as an option :)

[KETCH ROSSi]

The reason I sold all my still camera gear, including my Medium Format cameras, which was the Hassy and the Mamiya, at exception of cameras dedicated for BTS work.


Never looked back, even so I do crave and await for more resolution for much larger prints... ;)

Nice vid... :)