santa's coming to town oh my god
santa just knocked out the door drop
this
okay while i'm unboxing this i want you to do one thing for me try to remember this feeling this
feeling of unbound uncontrollable and irrational excitement that you get when you you know when you
see a person that you haven't seen in a long while if you wait for this concert that of your favorite
artist that finally comes to your town and you're just about to see him or her and um or when you're
waiting for jesus this is complicated just want to be careful here or when you're waiting for your
dream car and it's finally getting delivered well this here wow i'm i'm should definitely not have
an unboxing video i feel like many people say that when they do that on youtube you're finally oh oh
jeez don't give me a knife this is like dangerous five minutes later well this ladies and gentlemen
is my dream car
it's the red komodo it's a brand new small super small super compact
and extremely powerful little cinema camera that it's not even released yet i have goosebumps
it's like legit if you haven't heard about red
cameras those are basically the industry standard for digital cinema productions and
and uh this camera actually is currently being deployed on multiple hollywood
productions including the matrix for for those of you who are intimately familiar
with red cameras are possibly just here to see some footage holy [ __ ] so why don't we take
this bad boy
this is happening i have a red camera
uh why don't we take this bad boy out for a spin and when i'm back i share with you why i
decided to go with this camera over all these other crazy camera releases this summer it's
it's the season for camera releases let's let's check out what this thing can do see right back
so
do
what do you think i hope you enjoyed this footage uh but let me start with
a few disclaimers before i jump into the reasons why i personally got this camera
and the first one being this is a better model the camera itself the hardware is final and this
is what you will be able to buy except for the color but the software is in better and there will
be still changes made up until the point uh when this camera is being released and in fact red has
been really good like continuously updating the software for their cameras this one in particular
is part of the stormtrooper series which red always releases with the new cameras it's a very
very limited series for people who want to get the hands on very early on a camera and are willing to
test and break it and put it through their paces no official specs yet you cannot buy this camera
as of right now the black version of this one the production model will hopefully goes on sale next
couple of months for about six thousand dollars um obviously pending any delays due to covet 19.
disclaimer number two this video itself will be just very high level and i will make more
videos about this camera and i have a few fun ideas hopefully you will enjoy those
so uh if you mind hit that subscribe button and that notification bell so that you will
get reminded whenever i upload and i will be it will be regularly and third i'm a complete new
and newbie in this red ecosystem so it is a very very different workflow especially when
it comes to grading and handling the data files please bear with me if you're a seasoned red user
uh and if you're not come on this journey with me let's explore together and learn that actually
brings me to the very first and arguably most important reason why i got finally a red camera
okay reason number one it's another list listicles are a thing on youtube right
well the number one reason for me why i was always wanted to get a red camera is
the image quality the image the sensor that red designs the color science behind it and
the red raw codec the r3d files that have so much latitude you can really push and pull
these 16-bit raw files and really achieve a look that it's quite unique to these red cinema cameras
a few specs facts that are confirmed obviously you can shoot in red raw here the r3d files but you
can also shoot in prores not simultaneously like the bigger cameras they produce but if you want to
have smaller file sizes certainly you can shoot in prores but i was actually quite a quick side
note i was actually quite concerned that these raw files bugged down my imac or my macbook pro but
surprisingly they play back fairly well otherwise create proxies and you'll be girl gold golden good
both onto reason number two why i finally decided to pull the trigger for a red camera
is its size you know the dsmc2 bodies currently existing cinema cameras that that red is producing
they are big you're like twice the size of this and they eat also batteries big big batteries
like crazy so this camera is really comparable to to certain dslr's and all the black magic pocket
cinema camera 6k it is very compact and you can easily take it on on a hike and this is one of
the reasons why because i want to use it in the nature when i'm traveling as this really compact
small camera that i just have in my backpack all around my neck i actually have like pins that i
so i can put a neck strap around it um super easy to handle it is actually quite a bit heavier than
what it looks like because of the batteries because of the handle and its robust design
and the third reason for me is its modularity and not necessarily like in the traditional
sense where um clearly like you have to build out these cameras to make them usable what the
red ecosystem is kind of famous or infamous for is that you often had to buy certain accessories
from them in order to make make the cameras usable and those accessories were fairly expensive so
what's really cool about this camera is is that it's using existing third-party accessories let's
call it that way uh so that you can you know like just tap into an existing ecosystem one of them
are the batteries it's using the bp uh battery series from canon you want to get the bp 9955s
or the 975s um they're using cf cards cfs cards i got these from angel bird whoa this is hot
so you see there is a lot going on in there but again existing medium you don't need to buy these
red mags that were like at least twice the price if not more expensive per gigabyte than like these
very fast cpass cards it's using an rf mount very interesting right now i have a lot of ef lenses
so that was uh great for me too because there are existing adapters and you know like for future rf
mount uh lenses you can easily adopt them and put them on there because that's the future of where
the canon glass is going and number four it's a smaller reason this camera has a global shutter
you know when you have a rolling shutter which most cameras have you get this jello effect
when for example a car or bus passes or you shoot outside like in a moving car or so everything is
a little bit bent because the the readout of the sensor happens line by line so in like not at the
same time so everything is a little bit bent what this global shutter allows you to is like have way
better motion images if that makes sense of moving objects off out of moving objects and i think this
is a very it's a big feat of innovation that red pulled off here to get this global shutter and
this amazing dynamic range at the same time because usually global shadow cameras
suffer in their dynamic range i don't know what witchcraft is going on here it's definitely
hard um but you see actually side note it's very quiet red camera is notoriously also fairly loud
um this one is actually fairly quiet i'm like holding it now really close to the microphone
i don't think i don't think you're here it's more likely that you hear my fridge which is next to me
here very very nice that uh you know like you can mount a microphone and don't have to worry about
that it's picking up any any fan noise here and then reason number five and that in fact i didn't
know about this before getting very engaged uh around this camera is its community it blew my
mind that how forthcoming and sharing and open uh jared land who is the the president of red
was and how welcoming and experience obviously the red community is and how much
uh they are sharing and and answer questions and and frankly that was quite a surprise to
me that such an established company is is taking this very very different approach of
like launching a product but also like listening to the community listening to all the filmmakers
and dps out there uh on their thoughts on their needs and and and giving these cameras into the
hands very early on in the production process so that uh that they get the feedback from the
community that they're really taking in but before we wrap up uh let's quickly also address like
who this camera was originally made for and who i think will likely benefit from this
originally and jared shared this this camera was made as a crash cam for big hollywood productions
the netflix standard is not to have a gopro and they can only show like so many frames of gopro
footage before it falls apart and takes you out of the movie so the industry was looking for
a small compact camera that has the image quality of their other cameras that they're
using the other red cameras that can be just like put into fire and into
you know like into a crash car and get the footage and get it done in a very reliable
robust way so that's that's what it's been designed for and that's what it's been used
as mentioned before they're using this as as a crash cam on the matrix 4 that they're shooting
and uh steven sonderberg though he shot a full entire movie with this camera and i don't know if
you've seen the brad pitt snl skit where he played anthony fauci that was also shot on the red komodo
on the other side likely many existing red users that have the dsmc2 cameras like the gemini or the
helium 8 case or so they're using this as a b cam because obviously it matches perfectly uh their
other big cameras in terms of the color signs and uh it's you know like it's just a nice little
addition to them the third group i would say are also indie filmmakers music videos because you
can fly this thing on on a gimbal just so easily uh i just tried it out and uh it's actually one
of my favorite setups it comes with an autofocus that's tweaking it it's not perfectly working yet
but autofocus will be on this camera and flying it on a ronin-s is is just so much fun i've i dusted
out this gimbal i haven't used it in a while uh but it perfectly balances and you see my plate
is still on there and it's it's just a lot of joy and uh this brings me to the fourth group which is
uh possibly also like travel and documentary filmmakers who need a very small package
and can you like take this camera with them everywhere and the fifth group is what i'm part
of people who are new to the red ecosystem who are who want to push their boundaries
who want to you know like challenge themselves to get better quality images and also don't want to
lug around a big camera or invest too too much i mean this is freaking expensive but very excited
about what's coming i know there's a lot of passion there's a lot of lovers of red there's
a lot of haters of red obviously like i'm more on the lover's side now as i'm exploring this
clearly like it was always a dream of mine please be civil in the comments below but
since we are exploring this together please let me know what you want to know about this camera
what you want to learn if you have any ideas what i should shoot uh let me know down in the
comment section if you have any questions i will if there's enough questions i make
a dedicated video about it thank you so much for watching this video it's a little bit different
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what's happening santa just dropped this