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  • Jim Jannard has stepped down as public face of RED?

    Posted by Bill Davis on August 19, 2013 at 9:56 pm

    Just saw a couple of posts to this effect on another board.

    Anyone have confirmation?

    If so, it sure sounds like something interesting is happening in the RED universe.

    Or not. Who knows.

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  • Tom Sefton

    August 19, 2013 at 10:21 pm

    He posted a message to this effect on reduser.net earlier today.

    Seemed pretty sick of some of the critical comments being made about red.

  • Douglas K. dempsey

    August 19, 2013 at 10:33 pm

    Tried to access reduser.net; it doesn’t work. Everything looks normal in posts, then suddenly “my final post” — sounds like they’ve been hacked

    Doug D

  • Shane Ross

    August 19, 2013 at 10:35 pm

    https://www.engadget.com/2013/08/19/jim-jannard-steps-down/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget

    Looks like the post where he announced this on the RedUser forums is now gone…my link for it doesn’t work. Looks like the forums might be down. Heavy traffic?

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  • Tom Sefton

    August 19, 2013 at 10:54 pm

    Very strange. I picked it up at around 3pm UK time and the link I posted to twitter was working until 9pm tonight.

    Possible hacking then…

  • Gary Huff

    August 20, 2013 at 1:22 am

    [Tom Sefton] “Seemed pretty sick of some of the critical comments being made about red.”

    Try saying anything remotely negative about Red on the forum and see what “critical” means.

  • Shane Ross

    August 20, 2013 at 1:25 am
  • David Lawrence

    August 20, 2013 at 1:28 am

    [Shane Ross] “It’s back up.

    https://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?104367-My-Final-Post

    Looks real to me.

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  • Rich Rubasch

    August 20, 2013 at 2:29 am

    Not really news? The RED drama has been full of plenty of hype over the years. He believes he is the creator of a major piece of technology and he is…but not like the automobile or the iPhone.

    Rich Rubasch
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  • Michael Sanders

    August 20, 2013 at 12:50 pm

    Yes – when two well know DPs (Art Adams and Geoff Boyle) wanted to test a Dragon MX they were told they couldn’t because they wouldn’t do a fair comparison.

    So you make a product designed to rock the world of cinema yet don’t want professional DPs (who you would guess you would want to use your product) to review it…. MMmmm.

    JJ has done amazing things but he has also been amazingly arrogant and in some ways total blind to how the industry works.

    Michael Sanders
    London Based DP/Editor

  • Rick Lang

    August 20, 2013 at 2:29 pm

    Michael:
    “Yes – when two well know DPs (Art Adams and Geoff Boyle) wanted to test a Dragon MX they were told they couldn’t because they wouldn’t do a fair comparison.”

    So much emotion in Jim’s farewell post. Takes a while to digest. Maybe he recognizes that it is time to pass the torch to a younger person. At least his farewell note summarized his contribution from his perspective and even if that is not identical to everyone else’s perspective, it is how he sees it.

    I don’t know these DPs and they may have done a fine job testing the Dragon. But we all know there are tests that can make a sensor shine and tests that can make a sensor look ordinary. Obviously there is some history between Jim and Geoff since he felt stung by Geoff. I wish we all had very thick skin and could stand up to criticism, taking away the germ of truth that it may hold and discarding the rest. But that’s easier for some than others. Time we reflect on the big picture and not one or two bad scenes since we all share those moments in our lives and hope we are not ultimately judged solely by them.

    Rick Lang

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