Re: Why 4k?

ok, I gotta step in as one of the youngest people to be using a red in the world. period. My friend who literally just graduated college is a bit older than me, but is still on the younger end of the people buying the cameras.

and you want to know why we chose the red to shoot this high profile student run piece, using a camera that was new and unfamiliar vs the f900 or our in house hdx's? Or even our cameras.

well MONEY, for one, we wanted something extremely professional, and I think every one of the post guys my self included would have walked off if we had chosen to do film or hdx, for the following reasons

HDX- has no filmic look even with a lens adapter it looks like flat, television comedy too clean etc, and dvcpro HD is a nightmare highly compressed, and it's not great for vfx/keys/tracking.

Film, with the budget we have, and even the grants we could have gotten (to say a certain film company owes my school big would be an understatement) there is no way we could have pulled a full DI or even the time/storage to get even selects done of a 5 minute project at a decent post house. Let alone bringing it back for a retiming process.

So not only was the red package 100% free, do to our Dp owning one (as well as one of our instructors) but so was the HDX as I have dozens of blank tapes laying around. Our high level of vfx going into the project dictated high quality medium, (1080p or above) and our final presentation, of which we still don't know the format could be as stated above a large 100" screen with some un godly pixel ratio.

every point you could need to shoot red is listed above, not only in my post but others. The 4k images aren't really compressed, do to the wavlet functionality it's lighter but has far more information and room to play than the standard 4k image, do to the raw nature.

There are many reasons to use a red isntead of film or hd, and the price of the camera itself is laughable compared to say an HPX3000. 41k for the body and some minimal parts, vs 40k on a red, which gets you body and lenses? Or body and some other gear as many people prefer to rent lenses as their are so many to choose from.

I hope this helps.

Oh and btw, I know what a basic lighting kit is (: