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The RED Tide Continues
Dennis Wierzbicki, Photographer
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Robert Catto, Photographer
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Wellington | NZ | New Zealand | Posted: 4:59 PM on 04.26.07 |
->> There's a 30s clip of Peter Jackson's test / short film, Crossing The Line, which was shot on the Red camera at http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1883
It's 93MB, for a 30s clip - and that's at 1/4 the full resolution! But it's pretty impressive...
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Ramsay de Give, Student/Intern, Photographer
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San Francisco | CA | USA | Posted: 5:39 PM on 04.26.07 |
| ->> This is some remarkable tech here. Very cool stuff! |
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Dennis Wierzbicki, Photographer
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Miami | FL | USA | Posted: 8:28 AM on 04.27.07 |
->> That IS an impressive piece of video, even at 1/4 resolution. Now I guess I should go try the frame extractor the DMN uses to pull out HD frames to see how it works...man, this tech is cool and exciting!
Just think of a few years down the road when the RED-FIVE is out, and it's smaller, and cheaper, and I have my EF 400 f/2.8L IS mounted on it (OK, as long as I'm dreaming, and it's MY dream, maybe it's a 600 f/1.8L IS DO) shooting on the sidelines of a football game and having the option of uploading HD video or 12MP stills (this dream also includes broadband advances in the interim) depending on the editorial content and situation... |
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Louis Lopez, Photographer
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Fontana | CA | USA | Posted: 1:30 PM on 04.27.07 |
->> What will be the technical obstacles to overcome?
The terabyte hard drives for archiving the footage. Will four quad core processors be minimum for viewing and processing the images, not to mention T1 lines to transmit, from all the video guys covering an event the size of the superbowl. |
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Dennis Wierzbicki, Photographer
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Miami | FL | USA | Posted: 2:07 PM on 04.27.07 |
->> Louis,
You mean to use this technology today? Not sure, but the user forums must have some info on this topic.
http://www.reduser.net/forum/ |
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Anson Hung, Photographer, Assistant
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Michael Granse, Photographer
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Urbana | IL | USA | Posted: 12:14 AM on 04.28.07 |
| ->> Anyone still think that we do not need to start practicing our video skills? |
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Nick Doan, Photographer
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Scottsdale Phoenix Tempe | AZ | USA | Posted: 12:58 AM on 04.28.07 |
->> Video Skills? Start Practicing your Editting skills!!
If you shoot a football game and come up with 2.5 hours of footage; you would have 2.5 x 60min x 60 secs x 60fps = 5400000 frames. And, I feel like I have a ton of editting when I shoot only 1000 frames at a game.
I'm not worried about this technology. I'm worried about when it has a managable workflow, and people can find the perfect moment caught in a frame grab in less time than it takes us to dump a card, open it in Photo Mechanic, Caption it, Crop it and Send it.
And, people think I shoot too much with a still camera. ;) |
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Dennis Wierzbicki, Photographer
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Miami | FL | USA | Posted: 7:17 AM on 04.28.07 |
->> Nick,
Well, not being "worried" about this technology is an interesting choice of perspective and a little Luddite, no? Maybe I misinterpreted your reply.
What's the old (and I understand inaccurate, from what I have been told by native Chinese speakers) cliche' about the Chinese character for "crisis" representing two things - danger AND opportunity?
I think we should focus on the opportunities this technology offers us to expand our capabilities. It's going to enable us to bring new depths to the way we cover events (and no, I don't think anyone will wade through 5.4 million images - workflow solutions will and are being developed - read the latest Digital Journalist on what the Dallas Morning News is doing with HD video to get an insight into how close we are to the everyday reality of this technology being used http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0704/contents.html) and further separate us from the citizen journalists who are nipping at our heals at the bottom end of our market. It won't fully obsolete the still camera (or at least not for a while, if it does - size, storage and price barriers still remain), but don't underestimate the impact disruptive technologies can have on an industry. |
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