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Red Epics FInd a Home at Video Resources Inc

bradvr — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:20:05 +0000

We received our Red Epic cameras and immediately put them into use. Shooting green screen and location interviews within the first week. We even had a chance to experiment with HDR. All in all a fun time so far.

Our first hands on with Red Epic at NAB 2011 (note the huge grin on our CEO's face). Ted Schilowitz looks on.

Red was cool enough to give us Serial Numbers 15 and 16 as a homage to our original Red One cameras. Pictures and a real report from the field coming soon. We are still waiting for our hand grip and Canon mounts which will be helpful in EFP (electronic field production) and ENG (electronic news gathering).

Compare field of view between formats and lenses

bradvr — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:12:05 +0000

Able Cine has built a great rep as a go to source for modern day videographers and cinematographers. They stock not only the cameras and major hardware that we all need, but many of essential bits and pieces to fill out a package. Sometimes even developing their own hardware to fill a void such as their lens collimator. My most favorite tool is their field of view calculator which allows you t o compare the field of view (FOV) of particular lens of one sensor to another. For instance, if you want to see how much a 50mm lens covers on a RED One Camera compared to a Arri Alexa this is the tool for you. It’s mobile friendly and works great on iPhones and iPads –iIt even warrants a weblink on my iphone home screen.It’s free, check it out here.

To read more about it, Abe Cine has this overview.

Zeiss Compact Primes used on Zeiss Commercial

bradvr — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:52:42 +0000

Last year we produced a national spot for Zeiss Vision using our Red One. Of course, it was a natural to use Zeiss optics and the spot turned out great. We partnered on the creative and shot the spot on green screen in our studio space. All the VFX was done in house and using the 4K real estate of the RED image we did all re-cropping and zooms in post. This was shot with the original Mysterium chip in our Red One.

I have included a behind the scenes little promo we did for their national meeting in this clip.

Hope you enjoy.

Mysterium X v Mysterium shoot out

bradvr — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:59:03 +0000

Well our RED #15 is back in house with the upgraded X sensor and we are scheduling our shoot out this Friday, Feb 26. A small group of DP’s are getting together with us to put the Mysterium X through it’s paces and comparing it to our good ol’ Mysterium. We have a nice shot list planned, but are happy to consider some additional requests to really challenge the X sensor.

My friend Micheal Cioni at Lightiron Digital shot some comparative tests that technically show the differences between the sensors in various light conditions. We hope our tests show the real world equivalent.

Note our tests are just to understand the differences between the sensors, as it is us obvious by now that the upgrade is a no brainer decision for most RED ONE owners.

Depending on our job schedule, immediately after the test we will be sending in our second camera, #16 for the upgrade and will be the only house in the area with two RED cameras upgraded to Mysterium X. Hoorah.

If you want to shoot any tests drop us a line.

SHOOT WITH RED!

bradvr — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:19:26 +0000

Welcome to Shoot With RED. We just migrated our dedicated RED Camera website, shootwithred.com to Word Press! Check back often in the next few weeks while we migrate some of our older posts and add our take to the exciting news happening in the RED camp. In the meantime, check our Video Resources Inc website for info about our Red packages and other services.

Best wishes,

The VRi Crew!

RED Shoot – Chapman Studios

bradvr — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:17:23 +0000

Being part of the first group that were lucky enough to get their RED Cameras on day one (as in August 2007) made us all feel like pioneers or explorers. Shooting some of the first public images with the RED ONE camera was exhilarating. Remember that there was no audio, it only shot 4K and only at 23.97, and there were no working EVF’s.

The day after delivery, we wasted no time and I was lucky enough to be invited to be part of some initial testing that was organized at Chapman College by Brook Willard, and Evin Grant. Jared Land even made an appearance, dropping off a lens for us to play with. Now that I think of it, I guess Scott Webster (#23) and I (#15 & #16) were invited because we had the cameras!

Behind the scenes of RED shooting, September 1st at Chapman Studios in Orange, California.