FOOTAGE: Red One, Mysterium X, 800 ISO, and Snappy

Amidst a global international economic crisis of increasing proportions it seems that one company has developed a sure fire solution to cure financial woes.

Demon Shrimp.

The Red Digital Cinema company, makers of the best selling Red One digital camera, have announced the impending release of Snappy.

'Snappy comes after months of intensive research by our devoted engineers into cutting edge human-devouring demon shrimp technology,' said leader of Red, Jannard.

'We are changing the way people think about evil anthropomorphic fish.'

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So, now for some footage. Red has been kind enough to film this malevolent shrimp and release us a short quicktime for our viewing delight.

Specs:

• Camera -Red One using the new MX sensor.
• Capture resolution - 4.5k
• ISO - 800
• Download clip from http://red.cachefly.net/snappy.mov

Red recently released this footage to give us a tease of the quality of the images coming from the very same sensors that Scarlet and Epic will use. Essentially camera-geek jack off material.

Now that you have downloaded the clip (and cleaned up) pay special attention to the black areas. Yes. This is at ISO 800. Yes. 4.5k. And yes, no grain. What this means for low light situations is immense. To have the baseline ISO at 800 is unthinkable for a digital video camera.

David Fincher, who is shooting his upcoming Facebook-film, the Social Network, is using this exact same Mysterium X, or MX, sensor also had a few words to say about Red One.

We really like the images that we're getting out of the Red, we really like... I really like the sense of what the picture is, I like that its not so clean that it looks like video tape, like "digital", and when I put airquotes around it, I mean that it doesn't have that plasticky waxworks-like look that makes faces look oddly plasticky. But for me, its so much more than just about the camera. I enjoy an extremely fast-response relationship with Red, they've been incredibly helpful. I think in terms of what I've seen, where the Epic is headed, it looks to me like the Model-T of digital recording devices.

-David Fincher

If it's good enough for Fincher... Well, you know.