Archive for January, 2008

The future of Indie4K

I started this blog in January of 2007 in preparation for the day when we’d receive our camera. That’s taken rather longer than we initially expected. Turns out the delay actually resulted in better timing for us from a business perspective, but it has rather harmed this blog, as I’ve slowly run out of interesting things that can be said in advance of actually getting the camera and working with it. This has, as I’m sure readers have noticed, resulted in a dearth of posts over the last few months.

That all turns around when we get the Red. I’ll be blogging about camera tests and real-world workflow, posting footage, discussing all sorts of production issues… maybe I’ll even get the other two thirds of my little production company to start posting. And we’ll actually start the podcast back up again. Stay tuned.

Our final Red order

Red Package

We’ll be paying a total of $27,662 after our $2500 accessory credit. Notably, the above order doesn’t include lenses or CF cards. We’re planning to buy a Birger mount and use Canon lenses (we’ll rent or borrow PL-mount lenses until the Birger mount shows up), and we don’t see much point in buying 8 GB CF cards when 16 GB cards will probably be shipping in a month or two.