Gadgetory

hey what is up guys I'm Kim PhD here so let me tell you a quick little story I usually don't talk about like the exact gear that I use to make the videos like on this channel but I am a gearhead and many of you are too so might as well so in 2014 last year the camera that I was using was the Canon c100 and I had been using that for about a year year and a half and I've been shooting all Canon stuff in the previous years all Canon cameras Canon t2i 60d 5d and then see 100 is all Canon I wasn't even a brand loyalty or anything there was obviously other DSLRs Sony stuff and Nikon stuff but I felt like Canon stuff did the job for video best out of sheer curiosity I rented because that's what people who usually do with Reds they're very expensive I rented a red scarlet Mysterium X for four days just rented one for four days to try it out I uh I shot some video with it it seems pretty nice when I was shooting videos obviously a lot bigger than a DSLR but I shot some video and then I imported the footage and I saw crispy it was I saw the dynamic range and I saw the white balance slider in the editor I was using at the time which was Adobe Premiere and things I've never been saying now that's a pretty big jump to make from the Canon c100 and all these Canon cameras to a red scarlet and this red line up which is a totally different workflow totally different process a different style of shooting I could go into like an hour long rant about it I don't wanna make this video too long but the idea is that was the entry the entry level for the red ecosystem now this video is about the new red ecosystem entry level camera it's called the Red Raven so I got to spend some time with the Raven which comes out soon it's not out yet people start getting their pre-orders in early 2016 and while this is totally still a high-end camera is relatively budget and air quotes in a lineup that can go for like up to fifty sixty thousand dollars so Raven will be competitive at around ten thousand bucks so at that price you're looking at other cameras like Sony's fs7 f5 canon c300 Mark 2 C 500 now what makes this raven worth considering for people trying to decide well it's the smallest and lightest red camera ever it's about three and a half pound and it's a full-metal-jacket it just screams build quality everywhere there's absolutely no plastic to be seen and one of their goals I'm sure was to get this like as light as possible without any of that plastic so not only for solo operator like handheld stuff but also for drone stuff and study camp stuff where it pays off to be light and it's built on the body style of all the newer red cameras so it reads the same SSD red mags it works with the same accessories so it keeps with Reds theme of modular everything that's one of the things I talked about in dope tech number one where I talked about the red weapon you can get the brain of the camera by itself but that doesn't really do you much you add the extra modules you need to get up and running to your ideal set up so for me that would be you know a single cameraman sort of lightweight running gun type of quick shooter so the Ravens body itself by itself is just a box it's around six thousand dollars but then it has the SSD reader and the cannon mountain built-in and then red has modules for everything else so this side handle up top you see here with the red record button built in that's launching with the camera and that record button works via a few pins on the top of the camera talks with the handle the display on top it's reds new 4-inch display which look pretty clean to me pretty bright enough to be visible outdoors it tilts all the way flat but it doesn't twist that you can plug in and the module on the back here is called a jet pack it's kind of like a backpack to the camera that gets you you know full size HDMI USB and power to connect to a battery or you could even just plug it straight into a wall so there's all kinds of ways you can configure Raven as you imagine but really the best part of a red camera and like the main reason why it got me so hooked is the image quality red sensors and reds color science is just on another level as far as my experience goes and I've shot with a lot of other the other cameras I mentioned earlier this guy is rocking a 4.5 K dragon sensor so yes slightly more than 4 K and at up to 120 frames per second and it's literally a smaller cut of the same sensor in my weapon dragon now so that awesome dragon sensor and it's a 16 and a half stops of dynamic range and all the awesome detail red code color lots of the familiar image quality are used to from again any of Reds other high and cameras you could cut between them all and have no problems now I have to say this at least once during the video it's not just the gear that makes the video at all you guys already know that's just a part of the equation so going out and buying this really nice camera isn't going to suddenly take your videos to the next level although they might suddenly look a lot nicer I'm just saying this is the tool to help you make something at the end of the day this Red Raven isn't what you're uploading to YouTube it's the idea that you come up with that a camera like this can help you capture and also like Raven to me is just sort of like a teaser for the rest of reds more capable lineup including this this is the newly announced red Scarlett W yet no big deal this is just the only video on the Internet of this one of one in the world camera it'll come out right before the Raven in 2016 and it'll have even more of the modular features you're used to from Red's higher end stuff like the interchangeable mounts you can get a Nikon mount or a like a mount on there but also at a relatively lower price than the rest of their lineup so just throwing that in there so there you go guys that's my hands-on and impressions of the Red Raven - cool not to share so I hope you guys enjoyed and I'll see you guys in the next one with some more crispy video thanks for watching peace