Using The Red Epic For Still Photography?
It’s been hyped for a couple years, but Red Digital Cinema is finally starting to roll out their premiere motion camera THE EPIC. Capable of shooting 5k images with its 13.8 MP (5120 x 2700) sized sensor at up to 60 RAW frames per second the question for photographers has to be, ‘is this thing any good at shooting stills’? After using the camera on different projects over the last six months I’d say, ‘it depends’.
There is no doubt that this finicky beast of a camera takes amazing images with beautiful gradation and latitude that is better than most cameras I’ve ever shot with. What it lacks in megapixels it makes up for with its incredible frame rates and raw footage that takes processing amazing well.
Stay tuned in the next week for a more in depth look at how I see this camera fitting into the still photographers quiver. In the mean time enjoy some EPIC images (pun intended)
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