I walked into the area we were scheduled to shoot in and my first reaction was – no way. NO way did we have enough light to see yet alone shoot!

The plan had been to do a low light test with the RED as part of the RED 202 course.We set up our RED and we literally could see nothing on the LCD – I mean we could not even focus. Luckily Jimmy had a pen torch on his key ring, with ONE LCD, run off a single AAA battery. We pointed it in the near dark at the animal we assumed was in front of us, turned the camera to 2000 ASA, took off any shutter, swapped to the fastest lens we had, and by some miracle we could film.

I mean I thought there was no chance at all of getting anything meaningful. Sure the image is noisy and grainy, but still – being able to film in near dark with a pencil torch – amazingly cool.