As an owner of the RED-One camera I came to similar thoughts like TMARK.
I think in the near future still and video will merge. This wont be the case for high end fashion or advertising but for all the other smaller projects that many times just end up on the web or small print.
I still cant believe how good the still frames of the RED are. You get a 40MB Tiff still frame out of this baby. I printed it A3 and it looks very good.
It was an eyeopener when I first saw it.
Sometimes I think that the MFDB makers are all sleeping.
A full RED package costs around 30K and you can put your still lenses on it.
The LCD is killer also in bright sunlight. The cam shoots 120 fps in 2K and 60fps in full 4K.
Next year there will be the "epic" (RED2). This baby will shoot 100 fps in 5K.
Now think about our MFDB for a second. How fast are they shooting again?
Again you can get a 40MB Tiff file out of just one damn RED frame.
The MFDB makers got to wake up and bring some new tech or they wont be here for long.
This business will get tougher and tougher for all of us.
I can see people running around with video cams filming and shooting still frames at the same time. Selecting what they need at home at their computers.
A few years and we are there.
Now dont start arguing about art, framing and lighting. I'm just talking tech here.
But everyone can think for them self how this will influence our way of work.
And how this will change a whole industry.
RED is changing the film industry at the moment. They wont stop there...
Tim
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Tim this can become a very interesting discussion and I think it deserves a new thread.
You are cleverly separating the technical side from the art etc. but I think that these two sides will have to work together as they will for sure affect one another.
I have spent the last 5 days on a big production set where they are filming a new ad campaign, all shot on an ArriMax 35mm. This is a fairly new ground for me and I'm learning something new every day.
However there's an AFi7 there that is located next to the Arri and that is used for capturing as many images as possible during each take, that involves with allot of special effects and difficult lighting conditions, meaning mostly wide open at 400iso
Each take is about 40 seconds and at the moment it looks like the AFi7 is the only capturing device that can produce a minimum of 30 usable frames (usable as in sharp) over 40 seconds sessions and that can be edited/ picked into high quality inkjet posters. No other system would have given us a decent amount of 95MB frames to work from.
This could be where a future RED will be able to do both, but I have doubts as to the usability and the image quality/ size of the images, assuming that stills technology is also going to move forward.
The same AFi7 camera is also used for capturing high-speed motion (think explosions) at 1/500-1/1000 with flash. I cannot see how a 1/100 camera at 5K can achieve this.
Yair
