Epic-W 8K,7K,6K, all the Ks

Recently I found myself as an owner of a Epic-W (specifically #434) and I’ve been shooting a bit with it in conjunction with my Leica Summicrons, and I have to say I’m pretty excited about this camera.

As a DIT I have to be camera indifferent, I can’t have a sway to one or the other due to the fact that you could work with any camera at any given time (I worked with the F55 for 6 months on Vinyl), but you do have to know every camera as well (and it’s pluses and negatives) in how to work with it best and to give advice to DPs.

And I have to say that Red knocked it out of the park with the helium sensor. It’s a phenomenal sensor and FINALLY the magenta issue has been fixed from the days of the dragon (as well as some clean high ISO scenarios).

That being said, I went ahead and shot some resolution tests to showcase all the different FOV options with the resolution differences.

I shot these on a 25mm at 2′, 800ISO, 3200k, T2.

These are set to the entirety of the scale in which they are set (no frame guides) and is set to RedColor2/RedGamma4 (btw really excited about the new color science coming soon). I didn’t move the camera at all, just used fool control to change it all btw.

FYI if you click on the photos you can see them in full resolution. I definitely don’t recommend doing that if you’re looking at this on cellular data (wifi only!).