Red reflections 1

So principal photography is done and it's time to reflect upon the red cameras performance. The first thing I noticed about using the camera is how quickly you become used to things, how yesterdays innovation becomes the norm and the question of how things ever got done without it arises.
Little things like shooting and then transferring the files straight into the computer for syncing. We were shooting without a slate, relying on a lockit timecode box on the camera to jamsync to the audio recorders timecode ( time of day code). This worked flawlessly. To sync up at the end of the day we just loaded the files
( each time you press record it starts a new file) from the camera, and then the audio from a CF card straight from the audio recorder (onto duplicate and seperated raid arrays), popped them into Final cut using the redcode proxies of the picture, arranged them into scene folders , ordered the clips by start time and bingo the picture and sound pairs arrange themselves in order and merged clips are swiftly made. Synced double system sound in minutes.
The camera , despite being in the early group that have all been sent back to be reworked , was pretty trouble free. Only twice did we encounter it not booting up on start up, which was cured by the pumping of the on off switch with the battery removed, why this works is a mystery to me. The red drive arrived halfway through the shoot and proved indispensible. Unfortunately most of the scenes involving long takes had already been done, these were pretty tricky when working on the 4.5 minute restriction of the CF cards.
So how does the picture look. It's not film and it's not video , its something else. It's also extremely gradeable with pretty amazing shadow detail.
I'll post some grabs soon.
Marcus