Peter Jackson

shot a 12 minute WWI short, complete with aerial dogfights, tanks, and exploding shells, for RED's demo at NAB 2007.

Jackson was interviewed in New-Zealand Magazine and had this to say:

I liked what they were doing – making a digital camera of the utmost quality, and making it affordable for indie filmmakers. It also looks like film – it has a very attractive quality to the image – none of the “digital” look I’ve seen with some other HD cameras. I gave them an open invitation that if they ever wanted to field test the camera in a “real world” situation. I’d be happy to help. I was also keen to put the film through a full professional post-production pipeline, just to ensure we could use the data all the way through to release.