Empty V
Contributor
PerroneFord:Believe me, I'm not knocking it. Mine is a DVX100 original, and was purchased new on the advice of a friend who'd shot with one for MTV and Food Network (as well as the Bachelorette). I've done a lot of work with mine, and have some toys for it like a new 6 hour battery and a new Firestore with the big drive to save capture time.
I covered a press conference with it a couple of weeks ago, and I have to admit I felt a bit envious standing next to the guys in the gallery with full size rigs!
I've got an original DVX100 as well. If you're in the market for some new batteries I have an ebay store that I buy from that has 5400mha batteries for $24.99/ea. I have 6 of them and they are outstanding. Congrats on the firestore drive, I'm about to buy one for an HVX setup I have. If you're into cool accessories let me know. I've got a bunch and am constantly buying more. Cranes, pro-tripods, follow focus(next purchase), shoulder mounting braces(spiderbrace.com) and lots of other useful toys.
limeyx:I'd honestly be interested to see why you think a RED is not broadcast quality -- essentially 4K resolution either visually lossless wavelet compression or for the real freaks, RAW RAW output at 900Mbits/sec to a RAID array.
Also, I dont think RED has the concept of tapes, but realtime editing in Final Cut Studio 2, as well as quicktime plugins mean that editing should be really easy, especially due to the way I think the wavelet decompression works -- you can essentially very easily extract downscaled versions of the large footage without decompressing the whole thing.
Gotta read a little bit closer bro. I said it was not a broadcast camera, which it is not. As stated by PerroneFord, it is far beyond broadcast quality and way overkill. Downconverting is a long process and good luck finding a system where you can edit offline in realtime with a 4K image. FCP 6 cannot handle that, trust me. Do some research, the RED ONE camera utilizes tapeless acquisition only. Check out the brief description of the workflow here: http://www.red.com/workflow.shtml
Other ridiculously high end HD cameras that have this ability are the Grass Valley Viper, Arri D20 and the Panavision Genesis. One has to also remember that a 4K image doesn't mean that it's going to be an amazing picture. You can buy a cheap point & shoot camera that puts out a 10 megapixel image, but it will most likely look like junk. Resolution is only part of the story. There is a reason why these cameras go for the money they do. They could manufacture $15,000 4K bodies but they choose to go a different route, you get what you pay for.
Billy