UPDATED with some notes from the field:

Late night shoot…I am cashed.  1781 went for a ride today,  it was my 1st chance to put the RED through its paces with lots car mounting on the EXT of some old Sh%^y trucks.  Of course I opted for compact flash cards in this scenario as the solid state memory tends to be shock proof (although I have never stress tested to find out just how shock proof) but fortunately we did not drop any frames.  The down side is you have only 4 minutes 30 seconds at 4k on the CF cards (that is until RED starts delivering the 16GB cards).  The RED RAID drives (which hold up to 3 hours at 4k) is really not suitable for complicated shots where shock is involved unless your configuration is designed to absorb the shock.  Leave it to Element Technica to solve this with their new shock absorbent drive mount coming out one of these days.

Coal is making progress, we are working over 16 hour days due to some complications with our picture cars not working so the crew, myself included are operating on fumes and I don’t know that I will be able to do my daily updates as promised but I will cap the production with some field notes as soon as I can.

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