Currently my Red Epic is not very portable.
The battery module still hasn’t arrived, so I am having to power it from 240V mains. Luckily I have a 150W inverter in my car, so I can power it from that.
So… how does the Red Epic compare with the Canon 5D2 for stills?
Jim Jannard claims that the Epic looks so good it beats top of the range stills, such as the Phase One, in tests with Peter Lik. But they are not releasing any R3D files or disclosing how they made it look good. Hmm. So I will do my own comparisons.
Technically:
Max resolution
Epic: 5120 x 2700
5D2: 5616 x 3744
Sensor size
Epic: 27.7 x 14.6 mm CMOS
5D2: 36 × 24 mm CMOS
Shutter speeds
Epic: 1 to 1/8000 s (not usable for long exposures)
5D2: 30 to 1/8000 s
Let’s look at some actual images. For these comparisons, both cameras were set to 800 ISO, 1/50 second shutter.
Firstly shot under tungsten light. This setup was backlit with a 150W Dedo.
Epic image, no processing, resized to 1920 wide.
Epic image, curves applied in RedCine-X, resized to 1920 wide.
5D image, no processing, resized to 1920 wide.
The 100% crop shows the Epic looking much noisier than the 5D2:
100% centre crop from Epic
100% centre crop from the 5D2
Tests in daylight will follow soon…
AntonyM Photography 