Posted by: Finner
on May 2, 2009
NAB 2009 seemed to be hot with 2 main things. 1- PL lenses. 2- 3D everything.
As far as lenses go I was very impressed.
PRIMES
Red’s new primes WOW! Okay these things are SHARP! These could very well be the sharpest cine lenses available. Also the RPP have very nicely built housings and from what I found the overall mechanics were
solid and well built. The coatings looked good and it was very hard to flare them. At T-1.8 they are fast enough for most any shoot. To be picky the issues I found with the RPP were that the focus was a little stiff and could use a lighter grease (In cold weather lenses get stiffer and the current RPP’s I played with would cause problems for remote follow focus motors when it gets cold), T-stop was light and would be better if it was stiffer (After you set the stop you don’t want it to change from being bumped and I found it to spin a little to freely for my liking), the lenses themselves were a little bit heavy (Although not really any different then Master or Ultra primes so they are in really good company), on the projector I could see that the 25mm rounded (fish eyed) a tiny little amount (not anything of consequence but more then MP’s or S4’s hopefully the RPP 18mm does not round more), an 18mm lens is needed ASAP, it would me nice if both feet/meter markings were put on the RPP lenses like other high end lenses rather then having to choose one or the other. All this said the RPP look very promising and may just be the set that puts Red up in the same echelon with other highly priced/respected lens companies. After looking closely at the lens coatings I wonder if Jim has built a cozy relationship with Nikon (for our sakes lets hope that is the case). The 5 lens set (25mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm, 100mm) sells for$19,000 US.
Posted by: Colin Sheldon
on Apr 29, 2009
Hopefully you were able to follow Dan on twitter to get a brief look at what NAB 2009 and now had to offer. Now that we've had some time to analyse things a bit better (and catch up on all the work that was waiting when we got home), we will be posting our reflections on what interested us the most, and what is the most important to the Red community.
The first thing I would like to comment on was the new recording device from AJA- the Ki Pro.
From a non-Red perspective, the advantage is obvious. Up until now Sony and Panasonic have protected their high end camera systems from being canabalized by crippling their low end system.
Posted by: Colin Sheldon
on Apr 23, 2009
So we're back from NAB and beginning to compile all of the information we have gathered. Thanks for your patience!
Posted by: Colin Sheldon
on Apr 20, 2009
Hey! For those of you who have not been getting the twitter updates from Dan (twitter.com/dandumouchel) we've stopped in at the Redrockmicro booth to hijack their computer and internet so that we could give you a quick update. (Booth C09544)
