Red Epic Digital Cinema Camera

While it probably would be overkill for most weddings, the Red Epic is an incredible camera with capabilities far surpassing anything filmmakers and videographers have ever seen before. The price tag is not cheap, except when it is compared to what cinema-quality cameras cost just five or ten years ago. The best part is that it's digital and there is no need to buy film stock, which is also very expensive. It also films at a resolution about 4 times that of most of the best high-defintion cameras still used today.

Perhaps the new feature of this camera that impresses me more than most features is that it allows one to film in HDR (high dynamic range)—or in other words, it allows the user to film very bright and very dark portions of a shot at the same time and for the image to show up well and more balanced. This is typically very hard to do with most cameras. If you want to see an example of how difficult this is, try taking a picture of a person in front of a window inside and see if you can get the person and the bright background of day show up in the same picture well and balanced.

So, if any ultra wealthy person is looking for a last-minute Christmas gift for me, Brad, then feel free to get me a Red Epic.