RED Tools vs EasyGear

RED Tools is a convenient reference tool designed for use by filmmakers and camera operators to outline best practices in camera set-up for a variety of shooting situations. Each tool is customizable based on a selected RED camera and sensor type. Standard film formats are also included for comparison. RED Tools is also included in the RED Control app, which also provides free, full-featured camera control and video streaming for RED’s latest DSMC3 products. TOOLS INCLUDED: CROP FACTOR Preview how a given focal length will appear depending on resolution setting and sensor type. Illustration depicts viewable area relative to a traditional 35 mm stills photography sensor by default, but other reference sensors are selectable within the drop-down menu. R3D RECORDING TIME Evaluate the video data rate and available recording time based on your RED camera settings. This can help you understand media requirements and production costs in advance of a shoot. FLICKER FREE VIDEO Find a flicker-free shutter speed and frame rate combination when shooting under artificial lighting. DEPTH OF FIELD Understand how various camera settings influence depth of field. PANNING SPEED Estimate the panning speed where judder will likely become too pronounced. The goal is to provide a more accessible tool than the charts and tables commonly referenced in cinematography manuals. It uses the standard rule of thumb that camera panning should not cause objects to transit the entire horizontal extent of an image in any less than seven seconds. EXPOSURE Assist with exposure when one camera setting has to change. Example usage scenarios include when a higher frame rate needs to be used for slow motion, when the T-stop has to change for depth of field, or when the shutter angle has to change to minimize flickering in artificial light. NIKKOR Z Lens Coverage Use this tool to understand how NIKKOR Z lenses will look on your RED Z Mount camera bodies. The tool shows the extent the light will fall off at different sensor formats, and if any hard vignetting occurs.

Every shoot starts with the same two questions: what am I taking, and did it all come back? EasyGear is the answer to both, on the phone that's in your pocket when you pack. PHOTOGRAPH IT ONCE Point the camera at each thing you own. EasyGear lifts it off the background and files it with what you paid. Or search the built-in catalog of cameras, lenses, lights and audio and add it in two taps. Or search B&H without leaving the app: tap the product, tap Add, and the name, the brand, the model number, the price and the picture come off the page. Or paste your list from Notes or a spreadsheet, or say it, and add it all at once. You end up with a gear list that has a picture of everything, a total of what you've spent, and a knolling card of any kit you can post. How cool is that? PACK A SHOOT Make a shoot: the kits, the place, the hours. EasyGear builds the pack list grouped by case, the way you actually pack, and you say how many come along: two batteries owned, one packed. It offers what the day calls for — rain covers when the forecast says rain, spare batteries for a nine-hour day, sandbags when it's windy, lavs when there's talent. The night before, one notification: what's still unpacked. SHOT LIST List the shots for the day: a line each, a reference frame if you have one, the lens or the slider it needs — which goes on the pack list by itself. On set, tap a shot when you have it and it drops to Done. Pick frames in Photos and name each one as it comes. The shots you didn't get follow the shoot to its next date, and the list prints to a PDF with the pictures on it. WRAP At the end of the day, flip to Wrap. What hasn't come back is on top. Note where you last saw it. Nothing gets left on the roof. ASK THE DP Send one link. The DP, director or producer ticks what they want from your kit in Safari, no app needed, and their picks come back as your pack list. Need a PDF of the list for the producer? One tap. THE REST • Kits: Interview, Gimbal, Product studio — named sets you reuse. • Lent out: who has what, when it's due, and a nudge that writes the message for you. • Year in gear: how many shoots each piece went on, how often it was lent, and what never left the shelf. • Syncs between your iPhones through your own iCloud. Turn it off if you'd rather not. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No accounts, no analytics, no server behind the app. Weather and place search go to Apple. Syncing is your own iCloud. The gear link carries the list inside itself, and the page that shows it stores nothing. THE LIMITS, PLAINLY • iPhone only for now. • The catalog covers common film and photo gear, not everything; anything can be added by hand, by photo, or from the shop. • Adding from a shop needs that shop to publish product details in the page, which the big ones do and small ones sometimes don't. The shop's picture stays with the item until you photograph the real thing. • Lifting gear off the background needs a real photo; a dark lens on a dark case is harder than a camera on a table. You can keep the plain photo instead. • Weather needs a place on the shoot and works up to nine days out. Made by a working filmmaker who left a wireless receiver on a rooftop in Bangkok and decided that was the last time.