Big Red
31 August 2008 by jaksoulI still remember the initial excitement I felt first reading about the Red-One last year. Seems that original promise has, if anything, been exceeded by the product itself.(how often does that happen?)
There’s a fascinating background piece about the company and it’s founder over at Wired, articulating just how disruptive the introduction of a cheap, high spec digital camera could be on the staid world of traditional film making. But, as John Gruber points out, I think it’s the consumer level “Scarlet” which has me excited.
Reminds me of the revolution in music-making that occurred with the introduction of pro-quality/consumer priced hardware and software.
Anyone want to be part of the cinematic equivalent to House music?
A game-changer in the making.
31 August 2008, on 7:46 pm
yeah i was reading about that, it makes me quite excited. i have been thinking about trying to be involved somehow with low low budget local filmmaking for a second, having something like that would make it very possible to do cool things for cheap. storing that much data seems to be a concern in terms of cost and irritation, but that should get easier in the next couple of years. i think the true impact of this will be felt a few years down the line as the cameras become available second hand for even cheaper, thats when this can really blow up. exciting times for film!
1 September 2008, on 2:36 pm
Yeah me too.
I’ve always has a secret jones to do something with film one day. Sometimes technology acts as a primer for people who’ve sat on the sidelines and suddenly see an opportunity to do something, that was too complicated/expensive.
If I could just find a way to do cheap cgi, my epic scifi quadrology could finally see the light of day !!