updated July 14, 2008 Red Build 16 Beta by Tim Blackmore Adam Wilt, Art Adams, Dane Brehm, Phil Bowen, Mike Epple, and I met at Chater Camera in Berkeley on July 3, to have a look at the new features and fixes in a recent Build 16 Beta release of firmware for the RED ONE camera. This meeting spawned the 320 vs 160 ISO rating thread on CML. See Adam's technical notes about this release notes over at PVC My own observation is that (finally) with build 16, monitoring is much easier. In previous builds the Rec 709 outputs really were a challenge both in terms of color rendition and brightness. The new RedSpace LUT makes it much easier to see what you are doing. The group could confirm that 1080p playback is possible, and was able to reproduce the Codec Errors. However, by the time Build 16 reaches release status, the codec errors should be a thing of the past. Dane showed us lots of new menu items and features. Everyone noticed the grayscale that can be popped up next to the image. Lots of very handy updates are showing up in the menu system. We spent some time looking into the question of whether the noise levels have improved. Dane showed us a convincing comparison between Builds 15 and 16. It seems to me that the camera functions more and more like a high end production camera and less like something fresh from someone's lab. And that's a good thing. As I look at each successive release of the firmware, I'm more impressed with the camera and the development group at Red. It is great to see their application of modern technology bringing such rapid feature upgrades and fixes to this remarkable motion picture camera. Phil Bowen, Mike Epple, Dane Brehm, Art Adams, Adam Wilt Our carefully constructed sofa, macbeth card, travel case, and baby doll test scene. Dane and Art. The Panasonic monitor in the background shows the same image as the EVF. Thanks, as always, to Jay and John at Chater Camera for letting us take over their space and tie up their hardware.