RED DIGITAL CINEMA

If you are fed up with the video look and want to turn your hand to filming a true cinema look then Red Digital Cinema is the place for you. In the early ’90s, Oakley founder Jim Jannard was searching for an architect like no other, a like mind with the vision to create structures that would match the unconventional and innovative spirit of Oakley.

Oakley brought the unthinkable to sun wear and goggles…if you want the best, you pay a dear price for it and it worked, he built up an empire designing the best eye-ware  in the world and a few years ago decided to get into making video film cameras with a difference…modular, add what you need and chip sets to set the heather alight. 

Nothing but nothing can touch the design, passion for detail and delivery from design to end product than Jim Jannard and his team.

I myself am not into the film look but for all the money people spend on trying to get a cinema feel… the main thing being depth of field, they should look no further than RED. The new baby of them all is Scarlet this 2/3″ Myrserium-X chipset camera with 8x fixed zoom will set you back £2846 now that even surprised me, that’s no dearer than your average Sony semi pro camcorder and you get a 2/3″ chipset and a camera that looks straight out of Dr Who. The example shown bottom right is a Scarlet configuration of some kind but I have a feeling it wont be £2846 worth. The dearest Scarlet I can find is £7500 this comes with a 35mm Full Frame Mysterium Monstro chipset now this is for “brain” only you also need to add a lens which could set you back £3-10K depending on the spec. Knowing the Red team you will no doubt be able get a Nikon or Canon adapter.

Just posted 5 hours ago is the 1st UK review of the JVC HM700 by Philip Bloom. 

This twelve minute review goes over the camcorders ergonomics, the SDHC card, take note it must be class 6 and some footage shot with the camera. Phil has been a cameraman for 20 years and his passion is making video cameras look like film with various attachments to the cameras front end.

Using a Nikon prime lens you can achieve some sexy depth of field shots not usually seen on a video camcorder. Give his site a look you will see the link at the right hand side of the screen.

During filming last year (2008) for Type 2 Diabetes, I noted a few bloomers, during the edit I parked each take 2 on a separate sequence within Final Cut and edited 4m 24s of bloomers. As it happened it was dropped in the final edit because we wanted to have the final production on a single layer disc, so for your enjoyment, sit back and enjoy the fluffs.  

I was recently alerted to the existence of WeePurchase.com – a sort of web version of the Apple iStore – basically it’s a website that allows you to set-up a shop and sell electronic data (be it sound, video, text etc) for small amounts of money.

Check it out at:

http://www.weepurchase.com