Where does the current RED hubbub leave the RED ONE?
An R1 yesterday. It doesn’t look too worried. With last Thursday’s epic announcement (pun intended) from RED, the other shoe has fallen. Four years ago at DV Expo 2004, a couple of folks working on what was then simply called the “Oakley Special Project” took me aside to discuss a top-secret operation, launched in a remote mountain stronghold in southern California. Eccentric millionaire playboy Jim Jannard (it seems like most modern superheroes have that as a lifestyle description), a camera fancier with something like 1,500 cameras in his personal collection, had decided to build the One Camera to Rule Them All… only it wasn’t one camera. What was described to me was [a bunch of stuff I’m probably still not supposed to talk about], but one thing stood out in the design: it was entirely modular. A central imaging block was just that: the central imager, not too different from the “box cameras” that Sony, Panasonic, and the like sell for remote ops and industrial uses. What was differe
