Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 13th Nov 2008 23:48 UTC
In true uber-hype fashion, the RED Company announced today a series of cameras and imaging sensors that will revolutionize the movie (and still image) industry. Some commenters online jokingly said that this is where all the Roswell UFO reverse-engineering went into. RED announced sensors ranging from 10.1x5.35mm (2/3") size all the way to 186x56mm, and resolutions from 3k/120fps to 28k/25fps (that's 261 megapixels). If you have trouble visualizing that size, here's an image that might help. To add to all this, the RED Epic now supports stereoscopic (3D) capturing.
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The first thing I thought after reading the headline was (RED) movement to help Africa with AIDS [1], pretty bad name for a company imho 
[1] http://joinred.com
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It's aggresive marketing. Those guys have already made several overpriced shitty cameras, and sold them by paying Peter Jackson and Soderberg to use them (it's good, Peter Jackson used it!), so it's not strange that they make it to OSNews.
Although this system is in some sense the way to go in digital imaging, well, RED is like Apple*10^128973 in terms of selling coolness instead of a good product.
By the way, this is my first comment here, hello everybody.
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This is very exciting hardware news, this is literally pushing the envelope.
Except that they are still to deliver.
Not unlike other hardware news osnews is posting over time.
At least the other hardware news matters to more than 3 readers.
I suggest you read the forum rules again. Very carefully
There's just nothing as imposing as vague threats on a forum, is there?
There is a rule for this specific thing.
You mean the rule that says the editors can post whatever lame and irrelevant news they want?
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I love the marriage of old industrial with modern in this piece of equipment. It wreaks of class and durability. I wish I had a use for it.
I can see this being massive for all types of motion pictures, scientific research and more. These optics have to be put into film use. The still shots will be amazing.
The sports entertainment world will definitely change.
Edited 2008-11-13 23:58 UTC