We’re still somewhat bummed which Peter Jackson never done Halo, though this should patch things up a tad — a Lord of a Rings executive will movie The Hobbit in 3D entirely on thirty hand-machined RED EPIC cameras, starting early next year. That’s the news true from RED founder Jim Jannard, though that’s not all, as the limited number of pre-production EPIC packages will be accessible to early adopters as good. $58,000 buys your deep-pocketed budding executive a machined EPIC-M physique, titanium PL mountain, Bomb EVF and 5-inch touchscreen LCD, the REDmote, the four-pack of batteries, a horse as well as a plain state storage procedure with a four-pack of 128GB SSDs. Jannard expects to hand-assemble which initial batch of 5K imagers in December or January, start the genuine assembly lines the month after that, as well as hopefully have drawn out availability by NAB in April, yet he’s not making any promises there. That’s how RED rolls. PR after the mangle.

[Thanks, Patrick] Show full PR textHobbits on Red Epics.

Peter Jackson’s two movie adaptation of The Hobbit will be shot in 3D using RED DIGITAL CINEMA’S soon to be expelled EPIC Digital Cameras.

The inheritor to RED’s attention becoming different RED ONE, the EPIC has 5K fortitude, can fire up to 120 frames per second and has a brand-new HDRx™ mode for the top energetic range of any digital cinema camera ever done. Taking everything they had schooled from office building their first camera, RED designed a EPIC from blemish and have constructed a smaller, lighter camera that is an order of magnitude more powerful.

The Hobbit will be amongst a initial productions in the world to make use of the EPIC and during slightest thirty cameras will be compulsory by a 3-D prolongation. The EPIC’S small size and relatively low weight, creates it undiluted for 3-D – where two cameras have to be mounted on any 3D supply.

Jackson has the prolonged story with RED, dating behind to when he destined a reduced film ‘Crossing a Line’ as a very early exam of antecedent RED ONE cameras. “I have regularly favourite the look of Red footage.” he says, “I’m not the scientist or mathematician, though a image Red produces has a most more filmic feel than most of a other digital formats. I find the picture quality appealing and attractive, and with a Epic, Jim and his team have gone even further. It is the fantastic apparatus, a Epic not usually has slicing corner technology, incredible resolution as well as visible extravagant, though it is additionally a very practical apparatus for film makers. Many competing digital systems need a cameras to be tethered to large unwieldy VTR machines. The Epic gives us behind a capability to be all wire giveaway, even when operative in stereo.”

Jim Jannard a owner as well as founder of RED flew to New Zealand progressing this year with members of his group so that Jackson could test a EPIC as well as assess the suitability. “Everybody at RED is incredibly unapproachable which Peter has chosen the Epic” says Jannard, “The Hobbit is a major prolongation, as well as could have selected any camera system that they longed for. The actuality which they went with us is intensely delightful.”

The Hobbit will start sharpened in New Zealand early subsequent year.

Jim

Via Engadget