This Changes Everything, Part II

While I was previously blown away by the RED One digital cinema camera and looking forward to the prospect of a DSLR version, it looks like the RED team is gearing up for something even better. In an epic thread, Jim Jannard announced that they had taken the Scarlet back to the drawing board to introduce something even more game changing for delivery in 2009.

Given that Canon's new EOS 5D MkII DSLR appears to shoot amazing 1080p video, it looks like the possibility of a converged still/digital video camera is going to be the next rage.

Check out the high-resolution version (and that's only at 1/4 size!).

Seeing that $600 is the most I've ever paid for a camera, the $2500-4000 price bracket is on the pricey side, but seeing the results possible from such professional-quality cameras may make me take up photography as a serious hobby.

[EDIT: changed link to movie and removed the YouTube version which has been taken down]

This Changes Everything

Wired has a great article this month about the RED digital movie camera designed by a team assembled by Jim Jannard, the founder of Oakley. It's insanely affordable ($17.5K for a professional movie camera), comes very close to film quality, and outputs in an easy-to-edit digital format. Moreover, it even handles focus similarly to film, allowing striking photography. Check out this sample:


BIKER teaser from Macgregor on Vimeo.

But what I'm even more excited about is a DSLR version that is supposedly in the works. It bodes well for our future if one day consumers can own a camera such as this. It could make our digicam shots today look like Polaroids by comparison. Given that RED is releasing a $3000 camcorder version of the RED One next year, maybe that day will be here sooner.