RED’s Jim Jannard annouced today their new Digital Stills and Motion Camera (DSMC) Sytem which allows users to customize in almost countless ways (2,251,799,813,685,248 configurations, to be exact). RED’s modular design is intended to make obsolescence obsolete, by allowing every part to be upgraded. The “brains” of the systems are available ranging from 4.9 megapixels [...]
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Jim Jannard of Red Digital Cinema says that the roadmap for the Scarlet camera has changed. We have changed everything about Scarlet because the market has changed and we have discovered a lot of things in the process. We have a new vision. Wipe you minds of the past announced Scarlet. Forget the design and [...]
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Red Digital Cinema, the company that is giving traditional 35mm motion picture cameras a run for their money, may give Nikon and Canon some worthy competition in the DSLR market. Considering that Red currently has a 25 megapixel sensor in their cameras, it wouldn’t be surprising for them to branch of into manufacturing high end [...]
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Anyone interested in film or video cameras ought to read the Wired article on Red Digital Cinema. I first heard about Red a year or so ago, and found it quite interesting that this company was trying to turn the film-making industry upside down by offering an incredibly inexpensive alternative to film cameras such as [...]
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