28.11.2010 18:05 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Peter Jackson nabs thirty RED EPIC cameras to film The Hobbit, tempt you to blow your savings

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 an solid state storage module with a four-pack of 128GB SSDs. Jannard expects t

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