Gadgetory

okay sorry about that just with all the stress this camera has caught me through over the last six months I needed a quick snack before I get started one moment please the Ripjaws km 570 mechanical keyboards from g.skill features full RGB a simple design Cherry MX switches and more check it out now at the link below now red cameras are inherently difficult to review because their modularity allows nearly unlimited different configurations so I'll focus on the bill that we chose for flexibility today and easy adaptability for more specialized rigs in the future we ended up with more first-party accessories than many users because my personal experience and anecdotal evidence suggests that third-party accessories can lead to compatibility issues down the road and at least if we experience a device failure there's only one contact we need for support something we did end up needing more on that later as for audio when Linus did his original unboxing for the weapon we had plan to use the off Hollywood Oh mod but after a few weeks it would be generous to say that for twenty-five hundred dollars it wasn't giving us the audio quality we expected so when beach tech offered to send us their new DX a cine and DX a Alexa we were really excited to find a solution that didn't compromise on quality or workflow synchronizing audio impost is fine for feature films but it's a nightmare for our rigorous daily release schedule the DXA Alexa is our daily driver now thanks to its two full size XLR inputs and phantom power but the DXA Sena is smaller gives you the same fun control with harder buttons and is much less expensive if you're running and gunning with powered mics like Sennheiser AVX system or something that doesn't need power like a rode videomic go okay enough about audio let's talk about the most obvious reason you want to buy this camera the sensor in the weapon body or brain as read likes to call it their helium sensor shoots at a whopping 81 92 by 4320 add up to 60 frames per second but the benefit of this is not immediately obvious to the average person it's not about publishing a take a for the dozen or so people out there with a kay displays is about flexibility impost being able to stabilize and punch in with a very minimal loss in image quality is great and for VFX work ink mean absolute godsend but don't take my word for it hello probably wondering what the heck I'm doing here my name is Nico and I'm part of a channel called corridor we shoot a lot of stuff on the red camera and Linus and Brandon asked me to actually talk about resolution these cameras shoot up to eight k but TVs only up to 4k so why shooting a higher resolution if no one has a display to watch it there's actually a couple useful things that it does or that enables a filmmaker to do for example when you shoot 8 K footage you can zoom into the footage reframe it crop it pan and stand without any noticeable loss of sharpness up to a certain point of course but you can zoom in 150% 180 percent sometimes even 200% and you can't tell that it was zoomed in David Fincher actually does quite a bit on house of cards it's one of the ways you can get those perfect symmetrical compositions because in post they'll go in and reframe the frame to make it perfect another thing you can do with the extra resolution is get better motion tracking because more resolution means more detail to track more details attract means more points more points means a better camera Saul so her visual effects artist the extra resolution can be nice and finally the thing that I find most useful is down sampling so if you're shooting an 8k and you're delivering to a 4k television well you down sample that 8k for K that means that you take 4 pixels and average them out to 1 pixel for delivery so it makes your image cleaner for example his underexposed or you had push the color grade quite a bit it's starting to get noisy that noise starts to disappear and if you're delivering to 1080p and you're shooting an 8k that's a 16 to 1 pixel ratio so you're taking 16 pixels averaging them down to one pixel for 1080 P delivery meaning you have a lot more leeway with getting grainy footage or pushing your color grade and maybe it's not perfect but once you down sample it that far it looks really clean so there's a couple different perks for a filmmaker to shoot in a higher resolution and look just some of them anyways I hope that was useful hope I can help a little bit and I'll give it back to Brandon thanks but resolution is actually just a small part of the story here much more important as helium's impressive 16.5 stops of dynamic the 10 years of work rhetta's put into their color science and the post-production flexibility afforded by the proprietary red code raw file format some of you might not know this but outside of Linus tech tips I actually spend a great deal of my personal time shooting shorts webseries and pretty stock footage that I mostly don't get paid for but I do it because I love it and I guess that's where the weapon shines for me flexibility every time I take it or it's a little cousin the epic w out into the world usually with a ferocious guard dog to keep us both safe it puts a big smile on my face both during shooting and while reviewing footage later this gear was obviously a huge investment for us as a company but shooting a mix of our daily releases our bigger project and my personal stuff I've been hard-pressed to find something anything I can throw it in the real world that it can't handle and that's ignoring the fun yes I find it fun of grading the files in Premiere even at high compression ratios which helps us save space on Reds proprietary mini mega SSDs I am super impressed by how much latitude there is especially when trying to pull out details out of dark areas of a scene even at a high ISO which is an area where the previous 6k dragon sensor struggled not to mention that as a relatively new red user the ability to change ISO or white balance after the fact contribute a layer of flexibility that I'm still getting used to however this flexibility is not an excuse for shooting incorrectly in the first place like any piece of professional equipment a red weapon does not make you the next Roger Deakins sure you can crank the ISO to 2,000 in an effort to mask your lighting errors with a high-quality camera and a lot of people would never notice but to truly get the most out of it you have to be aware that a camera has a native ISO where its dynamic range capabilities are ideal and everything lighting makeup and D filters exposure aperture shutter speed everything needs to be balanced to get the right amount of light on the sensor if you want the highest quality digital negative and that's important because with red new image processing pipeline even users of older red cameras can go back and reprocess the red raw footage with IPV to for a fairly significant improvement in image quality it's still beta but it shows the dedication to support that I have to admire ok so this is the dream camera that everyone thinks it is right smooth sailing right well actually like any camera nerd I was more excited than I had almost ever been to open a box when it arrived but from day one until now we've had such a laundry list of issues with both of our cameras but I don't have enough time to talk about all of them so I'll just give you the highlights our biggest consistent issue has been with our 968 minimax I've heard the arguments defending reg proprietary SSD media it's more reliable and therefore worth the high cost but any SSD can fail and while we haven't actually lost any footage between these stress-inducing mounting issues and having four of our 960 gig Meg's fail over a span of six months I'm with Linus on this one the solution to reliable storage remember this is a camera that might be used for a 50 million dollar production or higher is not $3,000 mSATA SSD no matter how much pixie dust is in them the actual solution to reliable storage is redundancy to Red's credit they offered us a three-year warranty upgrade for both of our cameras with two free 960 gig Meg's as a way of saying sorry your seven-inch display mags weapon brain and epic W brain twice had to be are made but just speaking honestly as a customer it's caused delays in our production schedule and hasn't given us the warm and fuzzy feeling that we should be getting when we're buying the best of the best with all of that said however Linus might feel about the price tag we clearly haven't boxed them back up for refunds are they overkill for YouTube yes but does that mean we will continue to bring you guys videos shot in 8k anyway also yes we aren't going to turn into fanboys but the image quality and flexibility have brought us into the red eco system for the foreseeable future one of the worst parts of being a small business owner let's say you you're an electrical contractor or something like that is dealing 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