The future of digital still and motion picture capture is being completely rewritten. As I type this at 11:01pm (Australian ET), Jim Jannard, billionaire ex-Oakley sunglasses founder/owner and now CEO of RED Digital Cinema is posting information on the specifications of the new RED Epic and Scarlet cameras. No words can truly define how breathtaking this is for professional photographers and filmmakers the world over.
We're talking about an entry level camera that your grandma can shoot on (and purchase, because the price point is incredibly low for what you're getting) that could stand up against any film projected in a cinema (resolution-wise...remember, it still takes some great lighting skills and a good eye to make pretty pictures at the end of the day).
Scarlet can shoot nearly 5MP at 120 frames per second (thats MEGA PIXELS)! Thats more than 4-5 times 1080P HDTV resolution. 120fps is essentially 4 times slow motion...Think NFL Films or some really nice, smooth slow mo (Napoleon Dynamite shot of him walking in the suit type stuff)
In a variant, Scarlet can shoot at up to 24MP at 30 frames per second. Insane.
Epic can shoot, get this, up to a 291MP image at 25fps...yes, thats over two hundred mega pixels, on a large format size sensor, for ONLY $55,000!! You may think thats a ton of money, but for pro photogs, magazines or billboard ads, not really.
You thought the hit BBC doco, Planet Earth was "earth" shattering??? Think of what kind of quality can be shot with these.
Here's just a taste of one of the more than a trillion possible configurations with the two new "brains" they're releasing (in a DSLR-like mode):
Probably won't be getting much sleep tonight...and it looks like Jim probably won't have slept in 48hrs after this is all said and done (he was more giddy than a school boy. Read his forum posts for proof! Billionaires. Sheesh.)
(for an unfinished (I'll get around to it eventually :) history of my [Brad's] experience with RED Digital Cinema, meeting Jim Jannard at two NAB's, and getting RED's Ted Schilowitz out to NatGeo in D.C., and taking him around town here in Sydney, Australia, go to my old blog here)
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