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]]>Nov 13th 2008 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/
Er. . . . and the quality of the acting/directing/cinematography/script/composer/effects team?]]>Nov 13th 2008 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/
...As long as the common man has the common bank account to afford such a socialistic price tag, right comrade?
:)
I jest, I'm well aware of how phenomenal this announcement is, I've been drooling over the tease shots the past few weeks and months... I'm a still photographer, I have nothing to do with video, and I would do nearly anything to get my hands on a 261mp digiback.
You could print photos the size of stadiums... I'm having trouble controlling my salivary glands.]]>Nov 13th 2008 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/
http://www.michaelsmith.tv/2008/11/13/red-announcement-holy-crap-this-is-great/


]]>Nov 13th 2008 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/"I'm sold. This finally puts real movie tools into the hands of the common man."

The common man with several thousand dollars to spend on high-end camera equipment. My uncle was a photographer and I doubt even this was in his price range.]]>Nov 13th 2008 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/
Does it come in Captain Fantastic flavour?]]>Nov 13th 2008 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 5:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 5:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 14th 2008 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/
No wonder those teasers were so good, and, think of the great shots :)]]>Nov 13th 2008 5:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 5:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 5:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/
Well, I'm gonna buy one to film my kid's birthday parties...]]>Nov 13th 2008 5:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/
DSLRs are still cameras with a convenient video feature (largest appeal: photographers)
These are video cameras with a convenient still camera feature (largest appeal: videographers)

I don't see how the markets will interact.]]>Nov 13th 2008 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/
First, these are neither video camera or still camera, they are "Camera." There is a modular platform with a digital image sensor. This platform can be configured to take either video or still images (even 3D video or still), but at the base level, it is neither. So there is no "convenience" factor, it is simply whatever it is configured to... It is Schrödinger's Cat... It is both...

Secondly, this doesn't kill DSLRs... It doesn't even Overkill DSLRs... In the face of this device, DSLRs don't exist, they aren't even a factor. It's like saying masturbating kills babies.

Name ONE DSLR, medium format DSLR or large format DSLR that can take a 261mp still! The still feature in this system is not for the average person, or even the above average person, but neither is the video feature.

This is for a certain clientèle, and in the hands of that clientèle, it will change things. But with the price of putting a full system together, and the price of the editing equipment that will be required to process the data coming from this system, you are sadly mistaken to say this brings professional video to the masses...]]>Nov 13th 2008 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/
If you're some kind of still image/actual image hybrid guy (Maybe this exists, I don't know) then yeah, this is mana. But if all you really shoot is stills, its a lot of extra money.

Saying it invalidates DSLRs sounds crazy to me because there are people who put a higher priority on the still image than the moving one.]]>Nov 13th 2008 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/
What costs more money - $55K, apparently - is to have a ridiculously large 200-megapixel (really?!) sensor that's even bigger than medium-format (quick google suggests the highest-resolution medium-format back are currently 60MP, but this is larger physically as well, so I guess it's plausible). Since this isn't coming out until 2010 it does have a bit of an advantage over current technology as well.

imo the thing that makes this definitely a video camera which can also take stills (rather than the other way around, or some kind of generic 'both' thing) is just the size; you can't possibly carry it around with you in the way normal photographers do. I'm sure there are some uses for it as a still camera though, in a studio setting? Or for the kind of insane birdwatcher who has those 500mm lenses? Cases where size doesn't matter.]]>Nov 13th 2008 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/
"Right, but if you shoot still images, why would you pay the extra cash to be able to shoot video as well? There's no point."

The point is that you no longer shoot still images. You just shoot video and then go pick the still images you want. Nobody gets credit for "catching the right moment" anymore because you'll always catch it. It's a concept bound to cause some controversy, IMHO.
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5D mark II?]]>Nov 15th 2008 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Will it blend
Does it Play Crises
First :P

or all are thinking making a packet with LEGO]]>Nov 13th 2008 5:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/
"Sweet, more people to buy our lenses." (for Canon and Nikon, at least)

SLR bodies aren't threatened by this announcement.]]>Nov 13th 2008 5:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 5:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/
1) Oh SHIT!
2) Now why didn't we think of that?
3) Is RED hiring?
4) ooh, what does this button do?]]>Nov 13th 2008 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/So no pacts needed, and this is just-in-time-technology I guess.
]]>Nov 13th 2008 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/
That is one bitchin' camera.]]>Nov 13th 2008 5:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Pretty cool though]]>Nov 13th 2008 5:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 5:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 5:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 5:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/
so if walk across the street i would find one floating on the side walk
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Hasselblad will be pissed.

]]>Nov 13th 2008 5:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 5:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/262 megapixels]]>Nov 13th 2008 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/gigapixel cameras already exist]]>Nov 13th 2008 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/
The Gigapxl camera isn't digital, it's film.

http://www.gigapxl.org/]]>Nov 14th 2008 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 5:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/reds-digital-still-and-motion-camera-system-now-official/Nov 13th 2008 11:25AM