[Tig] where.. neutral review RED?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Rob Lingelbach wrote:
>
> After hearing many things from different directions lately about the RED 
> camera, some not so complimentary, I would be interested in reading a 
> _neutral_ review of the system, emphasizing its advantages and disadvantages 
> over 35mm film for studio and location use.

It seems that the customer may be locked into using RED-provided 
software in order to make sense of its proprietary RAW camera format 
(R3D).  It would be interesting if there was an open-source solution 
to convert from RED-raw to standard DI formats.  I wonder how 
different RED RAW files are from common DSLR RAW formats?  If there is 
sufficient similarily then existing software for converting from RAW 
(e.g. dcraw) could be modified to support it and substantially 
decrease the amout of vendor lock-in.

Bob
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