We're still slightly bummed that Peter Jackson never made Halo, but
this should patch things up a tad -- the Lord of the Rings director
will film The Hobbit in 3D entirely on thirty hand-machined RED EPIC
cameras, starting early next year. That's the news straight from RED
founder Jim Jannard, but that's not all, as a limited number of pre-
production EPIC packages will be available to early adopters as well.
$58,000 buys your deep-pocketed budding director a machined EPIC-M
body, titanium PL mount, Bomb EVF and 5-inch touchscreen LCD, a
REDmote, a four-pack of batteries, a charger and a solid state storage
module with a four-pack of 128GB SSDs. Jannard expects to hand-
assemble that first batch of 5K imagers in December or January, start
the real assembly lines a month after that, and hopefully have
widespread availability by NAB in April, though he's not making any
promises there. That's how RED rolls. PR after the break.
[Thanks, Patrick]
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