William Dempsey
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I have ordered a Scarlet but there are several questions I have after looking at all the pictures and specs in the manual. Here is one of them.
The first is about the back of the camera. I see that there are exposed latching components and even an electronic bus on the camera. I was thinking it would be nice to have some sort of protective cover plate for those of us who don't plan to add modules. Even a cheap plastic snap on cover would suffice. The reason I ask is that years ago when I bought my first Nikon DSLR the guy who sold it to me ,who was also a working photographer, said I should get the plastic cover to protect the back of the camera. He told me the most common damage they see at the shop was smashed LCDs and that the cost to fix was about the cost of the camera. The plastic cover was like $4. Within a month while on a job the camera bag swung loose and bumped into some other piece of equipment. It was a minor event but when I opened the camera bag I found the plastic guard had been smashed but the LCD was still intact. That $4 saved me thousands of dollars.
The other day I dropped a CF card on the floor. Those things are almost invulnerable and I thought little of it until I tried to load it into the camera. It seems that the card hit the ground at just the right angle and the grooves that key the card into the camera had bent imperceptibly . It no longer slid in.
Well here with the Scarlet we have a camera worth aprox $10,000.00. the back has a keyed triangular latch that if bumped might not permit modules to be attached if it were bent slightly. From what I read in the manual one must shut down the camera before changing a module because the electronics could be compromised. How long do you think it will take before someone shorts out that exposed data bus accidentally .
I think it would be a good idea if someone if not Red themselves built a little clip on plastic cover to protect these sensitive components unless there is one already and I just have not seen it yet. I replaced the $4 cover on my Nikon and the card is something that a nail file can probably fix. The Scarlet is a whole different deal and I'd like to be sure it is as safe as possible from at least some of stupid things that I might do.
The first is about the back of the camera. I see that there are exposed latching components and even an electronic bus on the camera. I was thinking it would be nice to have some sort of protective cover plate for those of us who don't plan to add modules. Even a cheap plastic snap on cover would suffice. The reason I ask is that years ago when I bought my first Nikon DSLR the guy who sold it to me ,who was also a working photographer, said I should get the plastic cover to protect the back of the camera. He told me the most common damage they see at the shop was smashed LCDs and that the cost to fix was about the cost of the camera. The plastic cover was like $4. Within a month while on a job the camera bag swung loose and bumped into some other piece of equipment. It was a minor event but when I opened the camera bag I found the plastic guard had been smashed but the LCD was still intact. That $4 saved me thousands of dollars.
The other day I dropped a CF card on the floor. Those things are almost invulnerable and I thought little of it until I tried to load it into the camera. It seems that the card hit the ground at just the right angle and the grooves that key the card into the camera had bent imperceptibly . It no longer slid in.
Well here with the Scarlet we have a camera worth aprox $10,000.00. the back has a keyed triangular latch that if bumped might not permit modules to be attached if it were bent slightly. From what I read in the manual one must shut down the camera before changing a module because the electronics could be compromised. How long do you think it will take before someone shorts out that exposed data bus accidentally .
I think it would be a good idea if someone if not Red themselves built a little clip on plastic cover to protect these sensitive components unless there is one already and I just have not seen it yet. I replaced the $4 cover on my Nikon and the card is something that a nail file can probably fix. The Scarlet is a whole different deal and I'd like to be sure it is as safe as possible from at least some of stupid things that I might do.
