Titanium...

[Brook Willard]

I find it hilarious that the titanium mount is making people upset. When we're complaining about RED making too many lens mounts... something's gone right.

[Jaime Vallés]

I find it hilarious that the titanium mount is making people upset. When we're complaining about RED making too many lens mounts... something's gone right.

Indeed. It's like all the ridiculous complaints when the big DSMC announcement was made. People were whining because we had more options. Bizzare.

[paul engstrom]

Titanium is way, way tougher and therefore far more expensive to machine than aluminum. Bits wear out quickly (expensive) which screws up tolerances (expensive) which requires changing bits (expensive) therefore slowing down the automation (expensive), etc.

In contrast, Aluminum is so comparably soft relative to the machining cutting bits that you can set up the machine before you go home at night and come back the next morning with a pile of finished mounts waiting in the mill.

Stainless is pretty ridiculous too actually.

That said, RED is using a high grade form of aluminum for their RED One mounts -- there was a large discussion about it in the past on that subject when we first realized we'd be getting aluminum rather than stainless mounts on the camera.

I've got some friends at one rental house that have lots and lots of problems with ACs poorly mounting their heavy lenses, to the extent that the lens mounts are having to be fixed constantly. The existing RED One mount on the other hand is holding up pretty well. I suspect I'll stay with aluminum for the camera I buy.

[Peter Moretti]

Just out of curiosity, you don't happen to know what the cost is for the aluminum casing for the Fixed Brain's shell is, do you? I was gonna see how much the multiplication of 18x would make it out to be.

Just to clarify, that 18x is only the begining of the equation:

Yes, Raw Titanium costs 18x more than aluminum, and Machining Titanium is much more difficult.. its slower to cut and goes through a ton of bits. ...

[Jeff Flindt]

Titanium Mounts!! Titanium brains as a option? Thinks how rugged and light that would be!!!! Jeffflindt.com

[Raphael Varandas]

100% agreed Mark

[Michael Moreno]

Titanium Mounts!! Titanium brains as a option? Thinks how rugged and light that would be!!!! Jeffflindt.com

Soryy, did I miss this?
Are Titanium brains an option?
Would be cool if they were, even if only in the distant future.
After Epic x and maybe for FF35
I agree with Jeff, the lighter the better, as an option, when money is there.

[Jonathon Laing]

Soryy, did I miss this?
Are Titanium brains an option?
Would be cool if they were, even if only in the distant future.
After Epic x and maybe for FF35
I agree with Jeff, the lighter the better, as an option, when money is there.

I believe they were anounced as being an option.




Jono

[Jeff Coatney]

Titanium reacts to other compounds easily. It might be okay for a lens mount, but I would hesitate in using it as a chassis material. Regardless of the practicalities of cost in manufacturing, Titanium requires maintenance. It can't come into contact with ordinary tap water, so you have to clean it using distilled water or you get surface pitting. Try keeping such contaminants off the body itself in normal use. I'd like to see a solid carbon body.

[Jay Silver]

Jarred,
When are you guys going to make the entire epic out of Ti and then not paint it black? The natural Ti color is great.