http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/ Engadget Comments for Redrock Micro Hybrid Cinema Rigs turn DSLRs into filmmakers http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 5:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 5:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/
BTW, it's "GH1", not "HG1"...]]>Apr 24th 2009 5:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 6:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/What I think is really surprisig is the quality of both stills and videos that I have seen people managed to produce with a so called "bridge camera", (and don't tell me that my Casio is a bridge cam too) particularly with machines under 500$ such as the Fuji finePix S100 or even S1000, s1500, s2000 and S8000; I almost wish I would need a new machine to justify buying one.
Fuji is the first producer that seems to have understood that with the quality reached by cameras in the latest years the competition in consumer cameras has moved to the price and at the moment their quality/price ratio is unbeatable.

This is why in my opinion these kits to tun an expensive DSLR into an outrageously expensive (compared to the quality it delivers) videocam are gonna be very difficult to sell.]]>Apr 24th 2009 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/@ViaTorci
Even if I'm not a photographer, to earn my meager living I'm forced to spend far too many hours with cranky and egocentric pros and I got this Scarlet from one of them who had it from RED in exchange of a faulty model ONE.
Anyway I have seen quite a few around lately also TV , used by news crews cameramen; I have also read somewhere that some famous movie director I have never heard of, has just finished to shoot his latest masterpiece with a Scarlet, giving to it the pro creed it surely deserves.
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I know you can't compare an actual product to a to-be-released one, but I think anyone thinking of high-end video/film should check these out first.

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Video cameras use much smaller sensors. Even most of the professional ones. A smaller sensor can be read faster.]]>Apr 25th 2009 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/
"New technology? ... All you need is to have a sensor fast enough to capture the entire area quick enough and to then sync it, can't modern CMOS chips do 24FPS yet?"

Yes, an APS-C or larger sized 15+ megapixel CMOS sensor that can dump it's data fast enough to avoid the rolling shutter syndrome.. AKA TECHNOLOGY THAT DOESN'T EXIST YET.]]>Apr 26th 2009 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/
The company is called RED Digital Cinema. They, in fact, make larger than APS-C sensors with larger, than 15 mpixels res.]]>Apr 26th 2009 6:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/I mean that 1000fps feature on those erm pentax(?) works by having super-low res and low res for slightly less extreme FPS, seems to me they do that by not reading the entire sensor array.
]]>Apr 26th 2009 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 7:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Now if only it was suitable as camcorder in the first place to justify it all.
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Anyway, I see your point, Night assault mission all the way. Certainly not candid camera.

T.]]>Apr 25th 2009 5:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/At least you have an unmoving subject that way I guess.
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:-P (just a joke)
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But what I'd want to see down the line is not only a full-frame DSLR still camera that can shoot video, but the flip side of that; a CAMCORDER with the 5D Mark II's full-size sensor - something designed for video from the ground up (video-oriented physical design, continuous autofocus, etc.) that *happens* to also take stills in a pinch. *That's* something I'd like to see.

You videographers here, can you venture a guess as to how much the mythical "5D Mark II camcorder" might cost if designed today? Just wondering. (The real Mark II is about $2,700 U.S.)]]>Apr 24th 2009 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/
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As for Redrock rigs, yes the baseplate system is $195 and a rig like Stu used is closer to $420 plus the follow focus for a total of $900. Same as a Red camera being $17k and you add from there

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That pretty well settles it. That is some of the best video I have seen from a D90. Check out this short by Vincent Laforet using a Canon EOS 5D MKII. http://www.vincentlaforet.com/]]>May 4th 2009 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 24th 2009 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/Apr 25th 2009 6:58AM