At last year's Broadcast India show, RED presented this short interview with Peter Collister, A.S.C. RED had given Collister an EPIC DRAGON to review. In the interview, Collister summarizes his history with RED cameras and discusses his test of the RED DRAGON. He focuses on skin tones, summarizing: "Basically, skin tones are what makes cinematographers...survive."
"Skin tones are the real thing that I want DRAGON to excel at and I think it really does. In fact, it's how different shades of color in people's faces...everybody from the palest goth to the ruddiest Irish person has so many shades of color in their face. And I wanted to test how those blended together. Whether they were blotchy as some older sensors created or whether there was a smoothness in how they blend from one color to another. To see how those different shades blended together and I was very pleased with that outcome. This, I think, will make clients and agencies and producers and directors just happy to be watching a monitor period."
At Broadcast India, RED presented Collister's RED DRAGON test and color corrected his footage live to highlight the 6K RED DRAGON sensor's dynamic range, resolution, and color science.
UPDATE: On February 24, REDucation Los Angeles is offering an exclusive master cinematography class with Peter Collister, A.S.C. (The Amazing Spiderman, The Rock, Arrested Development), aimed at experienced RED owners and operators.