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RED's New WEAPON Camera Will Likely Get ProRes As a Recording Option
While RED has been committed to RAW, it looks like their new WEAPON camera, which is an upgrade from DRAGON, will get the ProRes codec. Jarred Land recently posted the photo above, with just the word...
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RED Goes Vista Vision: PL Mount Revealed for New Full-Frame 35mm Camera Sensor
[Update]: Jarred has confirmed that there will be non-Vista Vision versions of WEAPON. This definitely means full-frame 35mm is coming, but you'll also be able to get the new WEAPON body with the...
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Capturing Beautiful Human Stories on the RED DRAGON: Glitch's Story Comes to...
Even the most macho of modern digital cinema cameras, the EPIC DRAGON, can be used to tell the most touching and delicate of human stories. I was recently contacted by John Ford, head of film at...
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June 30th is the Deadline for Upgrading Your RED Camera to the DRAGON Sensor
Time is running out to upgrade your RED if you haven't already. We knew the time was going to come sometime this summer, and with little notice, it's nearly upon us. If you own a RED, you should have...
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This Incredible Short Doc Captures a Surreal Tradition Involving 100,000 Rockets
One night a year, two neighboring churches in the Greek village of Vrontados go to war. In a Holy Saturday tradition that has been observed for well over one hundred years, the parishioners of two...
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RED EPIC & SCARLET Finally Get a True Stills Mode, Plus Thumbnail Viewer for...
If you own a RED, there's a good chance you've already seen the email about their newest firmware, but if you missed it, or you work with REDs frequently, the most recent update just added...
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NASA Shows Off Gorgeous 4K Space Footage Shot with the RED DRAGON Camera
Back in October, we found out RED's EPIC DRAGON was going to space. The 6K digital cinema camera has been in space for a number of months now, and NASA has begun uploading some of this 4K footage to...
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Highly Suspect's Incredible 4-Minute Music Video Was Shot in One Take. Under...
Music videos shot in a single take are a visual treat in and of themselves. But when all of the action takes place at the bottom of a pool, the stakes are raised to another level entirely. The recent...
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Shot on 6K RED DRAGON Camera: Astronauts Eat Food Grown in Space for the...
We've already talked a little bit about some of the 4K/UHD footage NASA is capturing in space with RED's 6K DRAGON camera, but this recent video is truly historic. For the first time ever, astronauts...
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RED Summer Shipping Update for Their New WEAPON Camera
It's Summer 2015. Do you know where your WEAPONs are? First things first: to RED, Summer really means Summer, so we're looking at the end of September before the first upgrades will start for CF (or...
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Behind the Scenes of Highly Suspect's 4-Minute Long Take Music Video Shot...
Two weeks back, we shared a sublime music video shot in a single 4-minute take at the bottom of a pool. Now the BTS video has been released to the world. The video for Lydia, the latest single from...
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RED WEAPON Announcements: New 1080p EVF, 4.7" 720p Touch LCD, 120GB Mini-Mag
RED has announced a number of WEAPON accessories as IBC gets going — though some of them will also work on SCARLET and EPIC. 120GB Mini-Mag This is the easiest one to talk about, it's a smaller...
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RED Teases New Camera & Announces 'Standard OLPF' for WEAPON & EPIC/SCARLET
RED's OLPF situation should get much simpler very soon. Over on REDUSER, Jarred Land just announced the Standard OLPF for WEAPON and EPIC/SCARLET, which is going to sit in between the Low-Light OLPF...
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Learn RED Camera Menus & Max Frame Rates with These Handy iOS Apps
If you want to learn the menu system fast on any RED camera (even WEAPON), there's an app called Donna that can help you out. While we've previously reported on Donna (originally free, now costs $3),...
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Here's an EPIC DRAGON on Fire, Shot in 8K 72fps by RED's Vista Vision Camera
How do you like your cameras? Rare, Medium Rare, or Medium? What about Well Done? Jarred Land, President of RED, has an interesting side project called Global Dynamics United (among other things). One...
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How 'The Eyes of My Mother' Cinematographer Rigged 'Crazy' Setups for...
Nicolas Pesce's Sundance 2016 sensation is a lesson in the art of black-and-white filmmaking. When 27-year-old Nicolas Pesce's The Eyes of My Mother screened at Sundance, audiences either walked out...
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'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2' DP on the 'Magic' of Being the First to...
Cinematographer Henry Braham looked to the RED WEAPON 8K DRAGON VV sensor for Gunn's Guardians sequel—the first for a feature film. In the opening sequence of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, an...
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‘Keep Shooting and Be Humble’: ‘BLAZE’ DP Steve Cosens on Advice for Young...
"When you first start your career, it's inevitable that you're going to try to emulate films that you've seen." It may be about Outlaw Country music, but DP Steve Cosens was tasked to lens Ethan...
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Soderbergh Tests the RED Komodo Dragon on his New Film
Steven Soderbergh is taking the RED Komodo Dragon for a spin. For a guy who once said he was retiring, Steven Soderbergh sure has no idea how to relax. Soderbergh is working on a secret project called...
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