RED has had a fairly… fascinating historical past. With advertising and marketing campaigns usually full of loads of huge guarantees and hype that actually did not ship, Effectively, it’s not only a one-off. RED has had a behavior of rejecting your actuality and substituting their very own (I’m being good) and deceptive prospects for fairly some time now. Not least of which was the declare that they designed and made their very own sensors from scratch.However this fascinating video popped up as we speak protecting a subject that I don’t bear in mind ever listening to something about earlier than. In 2008, RED introduced their new sequence of cameras with a number of sensor choices together with an enormous 28K decision 617 Mysterium Monstro sensor. It’s a part of Body Voyager’s “Deserted Cameras” sequence and it’s an enchanting sequence to spend a while watching!It seems just like the sequence remains to be in its very early days as there are solely three episodes thus far, however they’ve posted one per week for the final three weeks going deep into the histories of cameras from RED, AJA and Blackmagic, so I count on there’ll be extra to come back. However every video takes a deep dive into the historical past of the cameras that appear to have did not reside as much as expectations, like the unique full-sized Blackmagic URSA digicam. In the intervening time, the sequence appears to focus totally on cinema cameras. So, whether or not we’ll see some the deserted DSLRs and mirrorless just like the Nikon D400 stays to be seen, however no matter which cameras are finally lined within the sequence because it progresses, it’s fascinating to see and listen to why each failed. Was all of it simply (allegedly) hyped-up vapourware just like the RED 617 Mysterium or had been they plagued with bugs just like the URSA?Body Voyager has one other 10-15 cameras on his checklist to make movies about within the coming weeks and that checklist seems to be evergrowing. In response to a touch upon one in every of his movies that he’s “including extra as everybody retains mentioning extra that I didn’t even find out about”.Given how far digicam know-how has come within the final decade it’s fascinating and considerably amusing to listen to the optimism of a few of the firms from again then about what they claimed their cameras might do. For a few of them, it’s in all probability not going to be a lot of a shock that they didn’t make it, provided that by the point they introduced it to market they’d already be out of date.Make sure you subscribe to Body Voyager’s channel if you wish to keep updated on the Deserted Cameras sequence.