Daniel Sheehy

EDIT: Slow on the edit, missed my chance. <_< I don't think DSLR's are going to be a viable cinematgraphy option, ever. Experimental maybe, but not serious. They are engineered for a different style of work, and so the manufacturer has no need to look at solving the issues with sensors at continuous high frame rates. I think digital cinematography will get cheaper and smaller, and will continue to draw on inovation in the DSLR technology, but I think DSLR's will only cross over to digital cinematography in stop-motion & timelapse work.

In all fairness, I think the idea that it's a scam has been well and truely laid to rest.

Another really good reason to use real names on the forum. ;)

EDIT: My bad, you can track individual topics here.

You can also subscribe to forums, getting email updates, like CML. I thought you could also subscribe to individual topics, but I can't seem to find that option.... so maybe not. It is an option on certain other forums and it might be a nifty feature to allow here as well. What do you think Tim?

A large soft source above and slightly behind the plate is a good start.

When you work with the best, you learn from them. It would be a pity to lose that opportunity because of gender discrimination. It cuts both ways.

[quote name='Tom Lowe' post='208062' date='Dec 12 2007, 11:29 AM']Watership Down is another that might fit into that category. That movie left [i]quite [/i]an impression on me as a kid.[/quote] It was having the book read to me as a kid that made the impression on me. Re-read it not so long ago... great piece of literature.

.net or .com ? I thought it was .com ...

I believe this has been resolved to our respective satisfactions. I too must apologise if you found my 'good for you' quip offensive, it was not intended to be. Well, if I wasn't under an NDA... ;)

Thanks mate, if you were here I'd 'taki you a bilo' :) (serve you a bowl of kava) In the mean time, I have to make sure I have emergency supplies... Our cyclone has become a category 4 storm.

Great. That's all I was asking... pity it took so long for a simple answer. If you notice, I was quoting 2 people, asking for clarification of what looked like a contradiction. They were never my words, they were yours and Jeffreys. The whole world is not out to 'get' RED Jim, though we do look on with intense interest, given the amount of hype you've drummed up around your product. :) Now, if we're all clear here, I have a cyclone to dodge and a week of shooting in Kiribati to get ready for... Yes Daren, I got a letter from my teacher releasing me. ;)

Someone who has an eye on a teaching spot..? Or maybe someone who enjoys life in the Ivory Towers. ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_tower

Good for you. All I've been wondering about is the following 2, contradictory statements: "...Jim confirmed that the NDA was not from red." "...RED provided LART with as yet unreleased RED equipment and support with a request that we not release the info or test results until..." I see a contradiction, you say you don't. Good for you, but we disagree.

We disagree then. We'll have to wait & see if any of the organisers would like to shed any further light on the issue. If not, it really remains an academic discussion anyway.... semantics.

If you're saying that the new toys that RED supplied were in the "look, touch but don't use" category.. then you have a point. But from what I've read, it's more akin to you lending me a fancy new hammer to use on the deck (a left-handed hammer? ;) ) and then asking me not to talk about building my deck, until you officially announce your new hammer line to the world.

Like Max said, it may just be semantics, but I do see a contradiction between those 2 statements.

I was reading through the LART thread on reduser (which BTW is incredible hard to track... the mods seem to love moving and reorganising threads in the middle of the action...) when I came across those statements. They weren't unusual at all, until you put them in the context of this thread. There were other gear suppliers who apparently had prototype gear there, but didn't want an NDA, preferring the free publicity. (Sorry, I can't find the link for that.. it seems to have gotten lost when the LART thread was split in 2 and moved...)

Whoever is in the know. I was reacting more to your quote of Jim's statement that the NDA didn't come from RED.

Please explain, this statement seems pretty explicit: "NDA It is quite simple - RED provided LART with as yet unreleased RED equipment and support with a request that we not release the info or test results until after RED's official announcements..."

As 100% make-it-yourself jobs, those are pretty much the only ones I've seen. However you can cobble together a cheaper system using pro components bought cheaply here & there.

I've heard that argument a lot, but I have never seen it happen. Petty, vindictive behaviour is usually pretty obvious to everyone else... and I've never seen it tolerated. On the contrary, people, even on forums that don't require real names, seem to trust each other more when they know the real identity behind the mask. Lasting friendships & job opportunities sometimes result...

Have you tried searching first?

You could try it using a digital camera that shoots raw - SI or RED. The dynamic range contained in the raw files might allow you to batch process the frames and then recombine the sequence. It'd take a load of processing power though...

Canon, Panasonic, Sony & JVC all make small HD or HDV cameras. The Panasonic HVX is one of the only ones to offer variable frame rates. You'll be hard put to find a HD camera with variable frame rates cheaper than that.