Last month I waxed poetic about Red, a very nice, very high quality digital camera with the potential to shake up movie making. At the time I said, "You will drool when you see what this camera can deliver and then regret every HDTV dime you've ever spent." I meant you'd drool at the picture quality, not the subject matter. What the heck, you can drool at them both, because Red is now shooting porn!
TVpredictions.com reports the founder of Digital Playground (NSFW - don't even think of it) saying, "The addition of RED digital cameras allows Digital Playground to match the quality productions of mainstream entertainment studios, while remaining the world-wide leader in adult entertainment. Fans will actually lose themselves in the clarity of our new movies." I'm not claiming to be an adult film expert, but is anyone really catching Digitial Playground's releases for their sharp, high def quality? In porn, as on the Internet, isn't content king?
As much as I love the Red camera, this might be too much of a good thing. When quoted in the New York Times back in 2007, adult film star/producer/writer (Writer? Really? Would she like to come over and conjugate verbs?) Stormy Daniels admitted that HDTV made razor burn a major concern! "I'm not 100 percent sure why anyone would want to see their porn in HD," she added.
Mainstream actors have the same concerns. OK, maybe not the razor burn concern, but they're worried about cameras capturing too many of their purely human flaws. And mainstream actors aren't subjected to quite as many extreme close-ups as Stormy and company.
In the end, porn will shift to better gear because it will be mainstream production equipment. The old, standard definition cameras, recorders and editors will just fade away. As a fan of what Red represents, I'm happy to hear anyone adopting this leap-forward in production. But trying to sell porn by the pixel? Oh the humanity.
Stormy - the conjugation offer stands.
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