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RED DRIVE Longer cable

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I need a red drive longer cable for a helicopter work next April. The camara will be in the front of it. ¿Do you Know If it is possible?, o btw ¿isn´t possible to send the data transfer in a long cable?

Thank you people.

Gabi Garcia (ACTV)
1 Assistant Camera / DIT
 
Since the connection is a SATA Connection, the max. cable lenght is restricted to 1 meter. I´d look into using the CF Card, if you´re lucky 16 GB Cards will be available... maybe? I´d also consider using 2K instead of 4K to get aprox. 16min on a CF Card. and get a GPI/GPO Trigger for the cam to start/Stop

Manuel
 
thank you manuel, I See soon...
 
BTW,
Do you guys know if the eSATA cable come with the drive or do you have to order it in addition to the drive? It's not clear from the Red store.

M
 
Yes you now need to buy a cable for the drive 200$.

I would have liked RED to make an official statment about it.

Emmanuel
 
So which is it the official reduser statement above by Jarred or the office bomb squad email? Or Jim's, all is subject to change?

Ohh, if anyone has ended up with more red drive cables then they needed I might be interested in one.
 
Djtech74 said:
So which is it the official reduser statement above by Jarred or the office bomb squad email? Or Jim's, all is subject to change?

Ohh, if anyone has ended up with more red drive cables then they needed I might be interested in one.
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what bomb squad email?

I've just checked my 'your camera is ready to ship' email and there is no mention in the 'storage options' part of the email about the drive not coming with a cable.

edit: Why can't red just update the store with what comes with what. ie, the red drive, what cables come with it?
The power pack, what cables come with that?

It can't take one person more than a day to get all the info together, verify it with the correct people and get it up on the website. Fuck sake red, this is extremely annoying.
 
When completing my order travis advised me (eg bomb squad email) that I would require a cable costing $200 to connect my red drive to a camera. That the cable is no long suppied with any of the red drives. Guess it is the first of the price rises.
 
Djtech74 said:
When completing my order travis advised me (eg bomb squad email) that I would require a cable costing $200 to connect my red drive to a camera. That the cable is no long suppied with any of the red drives. Guess it is the first of the price rises.
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and if this is the case, why is it not mentioned it in the original email with all of the other info.

edit: wrong thread for this rant.
 
My drive also came with a cable.
 
chas said:
they have, and no you don't have to buy the cable.

jarred has said in a previous thread that the drive comes with the drive cable for certain, and I think a firewire cable, a usb cable ad the power adapter.

edit: link: http://www.reduser.net/forum/showpost.php?p=138110&postcount=13
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I'm affraid this answer from Jarred is not rellevant anymore, since I had to buy a 200$ cable for my drive.
It was Dan Duran who brought my attention to the fact that I hadn't ordered a cable for my drive, I was really surprised I had to do so, and he also said there is only one lenght for this cable (3").

That's why we would like to have an official statment from RED.

Emmanuel
 
Emmanuel Cambier said:
I'm affraid this answer from Jarred is not rellevant anymore, since I had to buy a 200$ cable for my drive.
It was Dan Duran who brought my attention to the fact that I hadn't ordered a cable for my drive, I was really surprised I had to do so, and he also said there is only one lenght for this cable (3").

That's why we would like to have an official statment from RED.

Emmanuel
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The cable length is not 3". That wouldn't get you anywhere. :wink:
It's more like 17".

And there's no USB and Firewire cables.
 
big lebowski said:
The cable length is not 3". That wouldn't get you anywhere. :wink:
It's more like 17".

And there's no USB and Firewire cables.
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Ditto. I bought 2 drives and both had RED camera cables and power supplies but not USB or Firewire cables. It's possible that's changed I guess.
 
i just got this in an email from brent@red.com

Development costs of the DRIVE were higher than expected so based on the
customer feedback, we maintained the published price yet made the DRIVE
CABLE separate instead of raising the price of the RED DRIVES.

Thanks, RED

So, it looks as if we do now have to buy the cable separately. I cant see why they wouldn't come to the conclusion to bundle it and put the price up, apart from the people buying multiple drive and only wanting one cable. but I cant really see people with more than one drive wanting just one cable.
 
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