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Posted in Camera & Eye, Technology on Aug 11th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get my latest posts directly in your mailbox. Thanks for coming to the Foo!Finally some solutions for still lenses are coming along for the Red One camera. And with it some exciting new possibilities, like simple remote focus and iris [...]
Posted in Cool Sites, Editing, Film, Technology on Jul 21st, 2008
Found a simple, straight-forward online calculator that helps you in figuring out how much storage space you need for a R3D (the Red camera codec) project.
1 hour at 25 fps in 16:9 takes about 115 gigs.
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Posted in Camera & Eye, Technology on Jun 19th, 2008
Sprayoff, not surprisingly a Munich-based company, builds light-weight rain deflectors. Their design is so small, that you can push it - just like a filter - into the front tray of a matte box. Power comes from the camera, so quite a speedy set up. Just over 300 gr.
Posted in Camera & Eye, Film, Technology on Jun 19th, 2008
Red has just released their newest firmware for the camera, featuring not only many new features (such a loop recording for 10/30 seconds - this is great if you are waiting for something to happen. You just leave the camera in loop, and then when you push record, you get the last 10 or 30 [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Film, Technology on May 30th, 2008
It’s probably been in the cards for a while, but we have ordered our Red One camera. Sometime before the end of the year (fingers crossed), we’ll be able to churn out pictures at such high resolution that they can be used for digital cinema. We’ll be able to use variable frame rates. I’ll be [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Cool Sites, Technology on May 22nd, 2008
Found a great paper by Canon on lens theory, which also explains the common terminology used in lens construction. The paper also includes an extensive collection of graphs showing the optical resolution of all Canon lenses, both wide open and at F8.
Great resource if you have a Canon stills camera, or a Red One with [...]