Red Scarlet Video Camera with DSLR-style 'Smart Handle',
for shooting stills and video to CF cards.
I havent blogged much recently, because after a trip to Hong Kong (where the air was like breathing sandpaper), I then went down with mycoplasmic pneumonia and took to my bed for a month.
Just before I conked out I attended an Apple Final Cut Studio event in Singapore, and briefly talked to Jim Jannard, the creator of the Red video-camera system.
I had a chance to see their astonishing Red One camera which shoots 4K Ultra-High Def video, but what I really wanted to talk about was their Scarlet 'Pocket camera', which is predicted to be out next year, to shoot 3K footage (3000 pixels plus) to CF cards AND to have a stills mode...which means the cameras imaging chip is theoretically capable of shooting frames approximately the same file size as several current top-end DSLR's at speeds in excess of 25 frames per second.
I've blogged occasionally on the convergence of stills and video technology and what this means for photojournalism, and wrote about about the Scarlet recently - the Beijing Olympics is probably the last summer Olympic Games where 35mm stills cameras will be extensively used - but maybe the camera shape will stay the same...Jim Jannard was very cagey about the Scarlet during our brief conversation, but recently posted the image above on a Red User forum.
It's a design for the Scarlet video-cam with an optional 'smart handle' attachment.
Look familiar?
What are you like... first the broken leg, now mycoplasmic pneumonia! Glad to hear that you are feeling better now!
Take care!
Posted by: Nicola | August 22, 2008 at 06:56 PM