Jim Jannard has an informative post with updates on reduser.net. Highlights:
2. Build 16 has been completely rebuilt three times. This is an incredibly difficult trick we are pulling off. Much more difficult and complicated than we thought. We have all our horses on it. Graeme is even at RED working his ass off along with [...]
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Check out this video of an exclusive demo for the RED party during NAB 08 just a few weeks ago by BIRGER Engineer Erik Widding–giving a final rundown of his much anticipated 35mm canon mount for RED ONE. This mount will allow you to mount Canon EOS lenses onto Red (and perhaps more importantly, othere–even [...]
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Posted in Web 2.0 on Monday, 28 April 2008, 12:41 am | No Comments »
[UPDATE, 2 May 2008: Also check out Tim O'Reilly's good keynote presentation at this event, which seems to have just recently been uploaded.]
I’ve only had time so far to listen to a couple, but these keynote presentations at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco (April 22-25) really give you a good sense of the [...]
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Red’s got a great camera, but the same cannot be said for their documentation. So we all forage at reduser.net. Here’s a 5-page guide to all the menus you can access on the Red One camera (by hitting the buttons on the back of the camera, which appear in red on these diagrams). This [...]
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Posted in 4K, Apple ProRes 422, Final Cut, Indie filmmaking, Kelly Chen, R3D, REDCINE, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, Redcode RAW, cameras, cinematography, high-definition, how-to on Saturday, 26 April 2008, 4:08 pm | 4 Comments »
After a few ad hoc test shoots, got to take my Red #1304 out and do something real and interesting: On Thursday we shot Canto Pop diva and movie star Kelly Chen doing a promotional message for a charity.
It was one of those crazy shoots–with too little space and too many people; in a tiny [...]
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Posted in 4K, Filmmaker Magazine, Indie filmmaking, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, cameras, cinematography, digital cinema, high-definition, joy of use on Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 1:17 pm | 1 Comment »
Real-world scoop on shooting two features with Red One Digital Cinema cameras from Offhollywood Studios, company of Mark Pederson (early Red adaptor and innovator).
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Posted in 2K, 3K, 4K, Hasselblad, Indie filmmaking, Nikon, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, Scarlet, cameras, digital cinema, high-definition, photography on Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 4:17 pm | 1 Comment »
MIT Technology Review article asks if Red cameras will make still photography cameras obsolete. Well, not a 39 megapixel Hasselblad H3DII. And even a Scarlet is significantly bulkier and heavier than a Nikon D3. But it’s an interesting question I hadn’t thought much about: how much easier would it be to capture a Pulitzer [...]
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Posted in AJAX, Air, Amazon Web Services, EC2, Flash, Google App Engine, JSON, RSS, Ruby on Rails, SOA, SOAP, Web 2.0, Web Services, badges, blogs, gadgets, grid hosting, social networking, syndication, widgets, wikis on Sunday, 20 April 2008, 11:16 am | No Comments »
Dion Hinchcliffe posted this excellent up-to-date diagram and accompanying text on “Tips for Building Next Generation Web 2.0 Applications”, in preparation for a talk he’s giving at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco 22-25 April. Given this teaser and preview, the talk seems it would be well worth catching (either live or hopefully posted [...]
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UPDATE: 3 June 2008: Ryz is running their first footwear design contest. Ryz’s footwear designs are “community-sourced”: would-be designers download a template, fill it in, have their designs voted on, winning designs are actually produced. And winners get US$1,000 for winning design, plus US$1 royalty on each shoe produced. Pretty cool. Deadline is 9 June. [...]
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Phil Wainewright, in his “Software As A Service” blog at ZDNet, has a good post on Amazon’s beefed up Web Services, which include a needed dashboard to monitor the services you subscribe to, called a Health Dashboard:
Wainewright praises these new monitoring tools, which up service levels, concluding his post with “AWS is now starting to [...]
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