Category Archives: RED

Japanese IP High Court upholds invalidation of RED’s key compressed RAW video patent

The Intellectual Property High Court of Japan has upheld the Japan Patent Office’s decision to invalidate one of RED’s important patents covering compressed RAW video recording in high-resolution cameras following a challenge by Panasonic. Here are the details:

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Nikon & RED + three additional new image recipes officially released

    In addition to the nine new RED image recipes I reported yesterday, Nikon released three additional recipes: Update: sample R3D NE & R3D video files are available here: The new receipt can be downloaded for free from the Nikon Imaging Cloud website. Here are the details:

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Nikon & RED Image Recipes are coming tomorrow – here are the details

As I already reported, the new Nikon & RED Image Recipes are coming tomorrow – here are the details on what to expect:

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New RED-supervised Nikon Imaging Recipes coming on December 10th

Nikon is teasing new RED-supervised Imaging Recipes to be released on December 10th. You can see the placeholder on the Nikon Imaging Cloud website:

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Nikon Interview at IBC 2025: “ZR achieves a wide dynamic range of over 15 stops – a hallmark feature of RED cinema cameras”

Phototrend published an interview with Nikon from the IBC 2025 show, covering several topics, including the Nikon ZR’s new design for heat dissipation. Here is a recap:

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Message Nikon CEO Toshikazu Umatate on the Imaging Products Business

Message from the CEO of Nikon, Toshikazu Umatate, on the Nikon Imaging Products Business:

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The Nikon NRAW hack: change NEV file extension to R3D and get complete RED RAW control

If you rename a Nikon NEV file extension to R3D, it will be interpreted by Davinci Resolve as Red R3D files. This will unlock a whole different set of raw video editing features, such as chroma noise reduction and the ability to change white balance in post, similar to most other raw video formats. Until […]

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