RED # 4779 is here!
Waiting for RED is finally over!
RED # 4779 arrived in Berlin on the 2nd last day of 2008! Just in time for the crazy new eves celebrations here. Towards the end it all went very fast. With a mad run to the bank to get a pile of cash to pay for the taxes!
My neighbor Kathja saw me trying to get the huge RED One package in the door of my house and kindly offered to help. She was of course very curious to know what was in the huge brown box. So I told here that it was a video camera. She looked at me skeptically and said "that is no normal video camera!" Which of course is true.
Later Clemens arrived with his set of Cooke lenses and we slowly started to unpack every thing. One of the many ways in which RED is not a normal video camera is that there is no manuel included, not even a CD!
So we followed our instinct and pressed the big black button which is not really labeled as such and the camera started booting. Booting is the correct expression here because the camera is basically a computer! Designed by people who used to build satellites :-)
No big surprise the Cooke lenses passed and we then realized that we of course had to format the memory cards. Thus the first foray into the RED menu! So within 15 minutes we we´re ready to shoot and test. More to follow.....
RED # 4779 arrived in Berlin on the 2nd last day of 2008! Just in time for the crazy new eves celebrations here. Towards the end it all went very fast. With a mad run to the bank to get a pile of cash to pay for the taxes!
My neighbor Kathja saw me trying to get the huge RED One package in the door of my house and kindly offered to help. She was of course very curious to know what was in the huge brown box. So I told here that it was a video camera. She looked at me skeptically and said "that is no normal video camera!" Which of course is true.
Later Clemens arrived with his set of Cooke lenses and we slowly started to unpack every thing. One of the many ways in which RED is not a normal video camera is that there is no manuel included, not even a CD!
So we followed our instinct and pressed the big black button which is not really labeled as such and the camera started booting. Booting is the correct expression here because the camera is basically a computer! Designed by people who used to build satellites :-)
No big surprise the Cooke lenses passed and we then realized that we of course had to format the memory cards. Thus the first foray into the RED menu! So within 15 minutes we we´re ready to shoot and test. More to follow.....