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Games
Half Of Next-Gen Console Owners Are Playing On Standard-Def TVs
9:40AM Adam Frucci | It’s easy for those of us with HDTVs to forget that not everyone has them yet. And Epic’s Mark Rein’s stat that over half of Gears of War 2 players played it on an SDTV really brings that home. More »
Cameras
GigaPan Epic 100 Arm Wrestles Small DSLRs to Create Gargantuan Gigapixel Panoramas
11:40PM Matt Buchanan | GigaPan has put their famed Epic gigapixel photo system on steroids, so the Epic 100 manhandles pro point-and-shoots and small DSLRs to create even more massive gigapixel photos from a bunch of stitched together shots. More »
Gadgets
GigaPan Epic Review (Verdict: A Cruel Yet Fantastic Tease)
3:45AM Mark Wilson | The gadget: The GigaPan Epic, the famous mechanism behind the 1,474 megapixel ubershot of the Presidential Inauguration that allows a standard digital camera to take massive landscapes. More »
Cameras
RED Unloads Modular Cameras, a DSLR, 3D and 28k
7:40PM John Herrman | Rumours of a RED DSLR had been confirmed a long time ago, but what of the Scarlet and EPIC übercamcorders? On the REDUser forums, RED CEO Jim Jannard has explained it all: Scarlet and EPIC are the DSLR — all cameras are “part of the same DSMC system”, so each and every camera will be part of a modular, build-your-own, still and video product line based on the Scarlet and EPIC ‘Brains’. To do this, RED has furnished an insanely diverse new collection of components, with sensors ranging from the $US2500 3k Scarlet to the $US55,000, 28k EPIC 617 Mysterium Monstro. galleryPost('redannounce1', 10, ''); More »
Cameras
Red’s CEO Confirms ‘Incredible’ Product Re-Jig Announcement, November 13
11:40PM Kit Eaton | We already knew Red was going to totally revise its Epic and Scarlet cameras, and there was a rumour about a Red DLSR too: but Jim Jannard—Red’s CEO—has just popped up on the RedUser forums and confirmed that there’s going to be an announcement about the new Epics and Scarlets on November 13th. And if that news alone isn’t interesting enough, get what Jim has to say about it: More »
Cameras
Red Scarlet Cam Replaced With a ‘New Vision’
3:30AM Sean Fallon | Red’s Jim Jannard has told fans in the RedUser forums to “Wipe your minds of the past announced Scarlet. Forget the design and forget the price. It is all different now. We think you will be surprised.” In his words, “the market has changed and we have discovered a lot of things in the process. We have a new vision.” So it is not as though the Scarlet cam has been scrapped—what we are talking about here is a ground up redesign that should be a positive thing for consumers. That having been said, the RED EPIC is going to receive a similar treatment as well. More »
Cameras
RED May Be Making a DSLR Camera
2:17AM Brian Lam | The RED camera’s Jim Jannard mentions the next generation Mysterium “Monstro” sensor, which be offered as a free upgrade to the Mysterium-X piece shipping in the Epic cam. Then he blows my mind by revealing he’s getting into the DSLR race with the same kit. [REDUSER via Engadget, image not of anything remotely made by RED] More »
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