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RED Scarlet & Epic Dropped

Penguin November 13th, 2008

The news is finally in and RED has changed the game. With the new announcement of both RED Scarlet and RED Epic, RED has made many a geek filmmaker giddy with joy.

Here’s a quick rundown of the announcement.

Scarlet
Scarlet 2/3″ 3K 120 fps $2,500
Scarlet S35 5K 30 fps $7,000
Scarlet FF35 6k 30 fps $12,000

Epic
Epic S35 5K 100 fps $28,000
Epic FF35 6K 100 fps $35,000
Epic 645 9K (think IMAX) 50 fps $45,000
Epic 617 28K 25 fps $55,000

That’s right, 28K!

The hottest thing about all these, is that they’re swappable. What that means is if you have a Scarlet S35 package, but need some high speed shooting, you can rent an Epic S35 and drop it into the rest of your kit, saving you tons of money.

Needless to say, I want a Scarlet S35.

Oh, and all these cameras can double as DSLRs too. One solution for all your image capture needs.

-Penguin

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Movie Exposure Lock on the Nikon D90

Penguin September 9th, 2008

There’s been a lot of buzz about the Nikon D90. Mainly because it can shoot 720/24p. This is amazing on a DSLR and a boon to all filmmakers.

Why? Because you get access to all of Nikon and their third party lenses which are much cheaper than film lenses. Thus, you get that beautiful depth of field all DV filmmakers strive for.

But one of the big problems was it had auto exposure when in movie mode. Until now.

D90 movie exposure lock: Menu / Custom Settings/ Controls / AE-L/AF-L for MB-D80/ Set to “hold” – press when recording to set exposure lock

- DavidStripinis

There’s a small microphone on the camera, but no audio in. So if you want to record good audio, you’ll need a separate recorder. But that’s not that big of a deal.

- Buy the Nikon D90

-Penguin

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Canon HV20

Penguin January 3rd, 2008

I’m going to be a proud new owner of a Canon HV20. Here’s a rundown on the key features: shoots in HD, shoots in 24P, has microphone in (mini-jack), has a headphone out, all for under 1000$. Ninja has been really generous and got it for me for Christmas. I’ll post a review once I have it in my hands. I’m just really excited!

-Penguin

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