The "Brown Stabilizer" - better known as a
Steadicam - had its
first commercial use 35 years ago in
Bound for Glory, Hal Ashby's biopic of Woody Guthrie. Later that year, it was used to film the
iconic shot of Rocky Balboa running up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. But it was
this shot in
The Shining - which even Kubrick-hater Pauline Kael deemed "spectacular" - that showed the technology's full potential.
(previously)
posted by Joe Beese
on Jan 16, 2011 -
41 comments
RED ONE is a 12.6 megapixel digital film/HD camcorder
developed by Jim Jannard, founder of the Oakley sunglasses company.
The camera will retail for $17,500, and is alleged to outperform HD and digital film cameras from established companies like Sony, Arri, Panavision and Dalsa (whose offerings all cost well in excess of $100,000). The general consensus among pundits in media production circles is that Jannard's camera will be a true
disruptive technology.
Last night, no less than 24 hours after the
very first publically available sample images from the camera's
"Mysterium" sensor were posted to the RED Digital Cinema website, the company's development offices
were broken into.
According to Jannard, "Everything they took was camera and camera file related...there is no question all they came for was RED camera stuff."
(Additional obligatory and annoying YouTube links:
First public demonstration of the RED camera at the IBC convention in Amsterdam and the
RED Q & A session that followed.)
posted by melorama
on Sep 24, 2006 -
79 comments
