Jamie Lewis

I remember years back people were trashing Red left and right as complete garbage and not at all what they were claiming it was. Now that it's been out in the wild for years, how is it? I see there are an awful lot of feature films using the platform in some capacity.

Which is bullet time ...

 

snore

 

What technique were you going to make a thread about ?

Yeah, I believe it is Bullet Time but Joe had suggested it was a single photograph and I was pointing out that it can't be that.

Funny, I was just coming to come an make a thread about this technique. As far as the still photograph possibility, I don't think it is. There are other commercials that have perspective switches such as this one where the camera rotates from right to left as it pans.

Given how long it takes to download reasonable quality HD, I'd expect to see Blu-Ray be very successful as a feature film delivery medium. Short stuff like trailers and music videos may be a bigger proportion of the content we get from the internet.

-- J.S.

And given the recent prescient set by Crapcast (Comcast) with it's bandwidth cap, digital downloads are gonna be much tougher from sites/companies like Hulu.com and Netflix. ;)

Thanks and wow!

Looks like the flipped shot, when she's running up, that's obvious because the stairs she just came down were on the right, end up on the left, and when the lighting changes in the hallway it looks like that's the instant they cut the shots together.

Yeah, it was Contact. I just watched the clip. Is there any info on how the shot was actually done? An AC article? Google is turning up not much.

I just remembered a shot being discusses here, I think, of someone, a woman I believe, walking up the stairs, down a hallway, into the bathroom and then the shot turns into a reflection. I can't remember what the name of the movie was.

Edit: I think t may have been from Contact when the young Jodi Foster is running for medicine?

Hopefully, but even so, the CF cards add in cost. And without seeing what's included in their packages, I'd be worried about the prices. Soon enough we'll all know what comes with what, until then, kudos on new designs, looks good, but then again looks can be deceiving. I learned a whiles back never to get too caught up in this or that product. Again, not a knock, more so the way I am and yes, I realized it's stubborn and closed-minded in a way; but it does keep me from buying anything without careful evaluation. Well, ok, almost anything. . . I have a problem when it comes to dvds....

Yeah, until the price of the fixed is announced (I'm guessing they'll include an 8gig card), it's all smoke and renders.

Minus memory storage, which will drive the cost up a bit. Personally I'd not peg any workable package for under 5,000 USD at this point, just to be safe. Still, if it does what it ought to do, that's a remarkable price point. I worry, though, that this will just- in the end, cause larger investments for shooters over longer periods of time. With a film camera, for example, you buy it once, and it goes. Film is bought by the client. With a video camera too, you buy it once and then you sell it and upgrade to a new package. With these reds, it seems you buy some now; and then next yr the client needs better footage, so you essentially buy bits of it again. I am very curious how the economics of all this will work out over the long term. This isn't a knock, just an observation. I'll probably set some cash aside here and there over the next bit of time and pick up one of these for myself. I'm just in no rush to get it-- i'll wait for whatever bugs there are to be worked out plus some real world feedback.

Memory storage options should have a built in option. The back of the fixed lens Scarlet is MUCH deeper than the brain onlys. I'm guessing its for control switches and a memory slot.

I wouldn't of even known about this unless a friend sent an email...

 

Just for fun... and I'm sure I missed a few things.... but went to Red... and discounted some things from their price list... but I hope we don't get tons of post saying its only a $2,500 camera at the entry level price.... and I'm not saying this is a bad thing... but its going to cost more than $2,500

 

Here is what I came up with...

 

1 Scarlet Body 2500

1 production pack 1250

1 view finder 2000 (listed at 2,950)

1 cf module 500

2 cf cards 1100

1 red power pack 1450 (charger with 2 bricks)

1 lens mount 500

1 audio module 1500 (a guess from the add on companies with the better jacks)

 

10800

 

Then if I went with the $7k S35 I think my friend said... add another $4,500 to that... $15,300... so with goodies that's cheaper than a Red 1... I must still be asleep.... or I'm missing something... except that you can buy the Red 1 today... like I said I could be missing something...

The fixed lens Scarlet looks like it will be coming out at under $2500 and will be ready to shoot footage out of the box.

Egad! None of my libraries or schools near by have it, microfilm or otherwise!

Mike, I have the DVD and listened to it a few times. A nicely fleshed out DVD. As far as your suggestions of Cinematography Screencraft, New Cinematographers and Reflections, they've been on my "wish list" for a while. Nice to know there's some more information in those.

Well, if anybody comes across a source of where I can read that article, send it along. Looks like I'm at a dead end unless I drop the $75.

Anybody (ASC archives, anybody here?) have the Seven article from October 1995, digitally? I'd like to read that article but at $75 for the issue I can't justify the cost for only a few pages. Only if this was ever in their $1 back issue sales but it never is.

VERY nice composition and lighting.

With or without your guidance... she will obviously make that decision on her own... that is a forgone conclusion. The question is... will she make the 'right' decision... and in your mind, the 'right' decision would be.....???? What?

The right decision is the one she makes for herself.

For those of you defending porn... maybe some day you can watch your (own) daughter with one in her mouth and one in her caboose. Now that, will be a proud moment!

I would hope that I raised my daughter well enough so that she could make that decision on her own.

If you think the porn industry has healthy, happy, well adjusted people with good self esteem working in it, you are blind.

You can throw ANY number of jobs into that category. When was the last time you heard about a porn actress or actor walking into work and killing five people?

She was nominated for best leading actress in '02, so that does speak some of her acting ability. ;)

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Salma Hayek yet.

Man, these Bolex cameras give me funny feelings.

I couldn't tell you how many TV sets I've seen that are twenty and more years old, and choked with so much dust and carpet fluff you can barely see the circuit boards, and almost invariably, whatever the reason was for taking the back off, it had nothing to do with the dust! OK your surround amp may have been full of dust and it may have failed, that does not guarantee the two events are connected.

 

And you very quickly learn not to get carried away with a vacuum cleaner and try to clean it up, because you run a great risk of "waking up" any number of bad solder joints that have been peacefully snoozing under the "covers":-)

Static buildup in the dust caused the circuit board to short, told by a technician. Also, due to humidity level in my house, dust collects moisture and corrodes electronic equipment. I have to take great care with dust.

Again, it's so hard to type standing up because I have laughed my arse off again.

 

Have a closer at the first "source" you linked to. Apart from the fact that it simply takes the word of an unknown "research firm", (which are notorious for finding whatever conclusion their clients want them to find), there is another link on the page that completely contradicts their findings!

 

As for the other link, I am monumentally uninterested in the blatherings of people's blogs.

 

I deal with Chinese electronics manufacturers on an almost daily basis; I know exactly what they make and how much of it.

 

I am sorry if I misunderstood you. The chair cushion is muffling your words somewhat.

How could it even be remotely possible for tube TV's to outsell flat panel TV's when the ratio in the biggest electronic stores ranges from 200:3 - 100:7? You're wrong as it's been flat-panels outselling tube TV's since 2006.

I didn't try to make stabs at you but you did a nice job of trying to come at me. Glad to see where your maturity lies.

Have a good day sir.

Congratulations on submitting the tenth needless nitpick of this post!

I appreciate your concern. I was just letting him know that he was wrong. If I meant anything by it, it would have been written differently. <_<

That's a great vid. Nice find!

Define "Televisions". Numerically, most TVs sold around the world (including the US) are cheap Chinese-made CRT-based standard definition sets,

Tube TV's have not outsold flat panels for years with LCD being the leader since 2006.

http://www.cnet.com.au/tvs/lcd/0,239035307,339272444,00.htm

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/w...cture-tube-tvs/