Out shooting for for Lexus of Knoxville. Doing a short film based on "It's a Wonderful Life". Thanks to the jib I was able to get a really nice shot from off the bridge.
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So I finally have been able to play with a RED One camera this past week (just in time as I finalized my order for the first rental ready RED in Knoxville.) Michael Samstag is supposed to do a complete review of the camera when mine arrives so I will just give you a few of my first impressions.
It's big, but it's not huge.
It's HEAVY! Because it's not huge, you think because of it's size that it should be lighter. However, the body and accessories are made of solid metal and so it makes sense. There was a picture posted the other day of someone fully standing on the body with no issues. With a small lens and only a few accessories, it is fairly light. With a lens like the cine Angenieux 25-250 that we tried on it it became very heavy.
Not totally crazy about how the menu system works, but it's not terrible and should get better as Red improves it.
The Red LCD is very nice for the money. Extremely sharp and I could easily see an image on it from 10' away.
The images it produces (see an example below) are really nice. Using Red's software to color correct the image is easy, and it is amazing what you can pull out of the highlights and shadows.
Just so everyone knows, we are trying to set up a RED day in Knoxville so that any one who wants to play with the RED and better understand the workflow for post can come and get their hands on one. Look for more information about that soon.
The image below was shot with the 25-250. At full rez, it is sightly soft. I believe that it has to do more with the fact that this lens tends to be soft at longer focal lengths (which I believe this shot was around 200mm) The wide stuff we shot at 25-50 is sharp as a tack. Even then, this is a very nice shot. Natural light, no bounce, under a porch with a cloudy day.
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