REDONE review 09/04/2009
Let me tell you a story....in 2003 I shot a skateboard DVD in California...part of which was filmed by the Oakley factory. I was told by one of their marketing guys that Oakley was putting it's money into a microchip that could go into virtually any camera and that it would shoot film quality images at a budget price.....this microchip is now housed into the REDONE!! Have to thank my good friend Dave Miller for this one...Dave along with a couple of friends and like-minded individuals have pooled their REDONE cameras together and now are hiring out this landmark camera as well as an excellent range of glass. Having seen so much stuff shot on it recently....I rushed down to south-central London to check this baby out. And what a camera!! It's very modular like any Aaton/Arriflex film camera.....and very simple to operate....once you get your head round 2K-4K res....etc. etc. Owning a Panasonic HVX200 myself and having to deal with firestores and workflows...this was easy. Now REDONE's are top-end cameras and they are heavy and bulky as the rest of them...but I found the menu operations/settings very straight forward to operate. Slap on the lens, hard drive, monitor and you are ready to go. The pictures speak for themselves and with everyone from Steven Soderburgh-Peter Jackson using them for features incl. Che Guevera...it says alot about how far Oakley have come in 5-6 years since I first got wind of it's development. It's the camera of the moment (high/lo budget) and I am looking forward to it's little brother the Scarlet (out next year)! CommentsLeave a Reply |