Comments on: Will Video Cameras Kill Still Photography? Red Epic Vs Hasselblad

By: Thomas Shue

Thomas Shue — Sun, 12 May 2013 06:00:00 +0000

To me it is not even close. Z-Blad kills it.

By: Peter Proniewicz-Brooks

Peter Proniewicz-Brooks — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:57:00 +0000

Epics getting a new 6k sensor soon

By: Seth Reddington

Seth Reddington — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:18:00 +0000

No contest- still impressive that it’s getting this close, though.
http://picturepush.com/public/12187448

By: Laurent Lucuix

Laurent Lucuix — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:24:00 +0000

That reminds me again why I love my Hasselblad. The color rendition I get from my H4d-40, the sharpness and the tonal transition are amazing. Yes it is very expensive. But it delivers. I also own some Nikon bodies and lenses but when I want top quality and I don’t need flexibility, I will go with my Hasselblad.

By: Brendan James

Brendan James — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:09:00 +0000

Viewing this on a MBP Retina Display, the Hasselblad appears dramatically sharper. I’m wondering if anyone else notices this?

By: Ash Bobye

Ash Bobye — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 01:22:00 +0000

Crazy, ridiculous idea that would never happen… BUT
What if you could have a setup with both the Red and the Hasselblad (Somehow they’d have to go through the same lens or something to get the same angle) but every you hit the shutter, it gave you the picture and marked the timeline of the video so that you could scan through, frame by frame, for those all important angle adjustments just before and after the picture was taken.

By: SignalOneThreeMedia

SignalOneThreeMedia — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 05:39:00 +0000

Oddly in post production we use a very flat image with low contrast. It provides a large amount of headroom to color correct. In the image on the hasselblad you can see that the pink is the shirt is [most likely] more true to the actual color. The epic in the red and blue channel tends to desaturate. In video post this is a good thing! blown red and blue in video, as in stills, is hell to do post work on.

By: Anne-So Marion

Anne-So Marion — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:10:00 +0000

I am just gotta put this back into place for a moment.

This camera is more expensive. But since it isn’t a still camera, we shouldn’t expect delivery to be 10 times better.This video was extremely well made and well executed. This photographer is talented and more importantly, curious, which I believe is important in any kind of creative industry. Now, realistically: Hasselblad is a still camera. Red epic is a motion camera. The workflow isn’t the same.Shooting 5K, RC 3:1, means that it takes 14 minutes of footage to fill up a 128 Gb card.Storage won’t be the same, workflow, and delivery times either.
Film is different than picture.
Lens are different.
Crew is different.
Lighting is different.

We need to adapt our equipment following our need. Using the Epic for a still shoot will obviously slow you down and mostly, if you don’t have a crew there working with a good system.

My best example would be : Canon 5D. I am and always will consider this camera to be a still camera, even if it can deliver videos.

Epic can deliver stills. But it is and always will be a film camera

By: Jonathan Fields

Jonathan Fields — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:36:00 +0000

The Red’s image looks a little flatter because of the way it “extends” the dynamic range to allow for color correction and grading. This effect is most appreciable when looking at video from a DSLR. You’ll notice that the image looks muddy and sort of grey. Now some of this is due to the color loss from the 4:4:0 compression, but most of this is to allow for relatively high amounts of color grading and correction.

By: Taylor Barnette

Taylor Barnette — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 01:33:00 +0000

What we have to all remember is yes the Hasselblad is noticeably sharper when magnified but the RED is designed as a video camera.. its doing something here that its not designed to do and Its doing about 100 times the work that the Hasselblad is. The fact that it can even compete is amazing!