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Highest amount of money willing to give if your expectations were met?

Highest amount of money willing to give if your expectations were met?

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Not trying to be funny. Ted even called it a "professional tool" and not a camera. Red is trying to establish themselves as making the best digital cinema camera in the world and have a lot on their plate with that. I question if building a toy prosumer camera fits with that goal.
 
I have been quite a wacky few months since Scarlet speculation started officially. I am sure the Red staff had a hilarious time reading the posts and probably the laughter help them relaxed a bit. It is scary to see grown up men and women going crazy like this about a new toy without knowing basically an iota about it beforehand. I would say only in America but our dear friends all over the world joined in the madness.
Hopefully Scarlet will be a bit over the HVX 200 capabilities and be a great tool; especially those that are starting out and do not have $30,000 in their “pocket” to shell out for the Red One.
If it becomes accessible to everybody so be it. Photo digital cameras are widely available to the public and professional photographers are still making a good living.
In a little longer than a week we will see pictures of the newborn and we will decide how beautiful or ugly she is, and if she will grow up to be a productive individual.
 
John Caballero said:
Sorry for the typo at the beginning, I meant to say It has been
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In the future, you may edit your posts, after seeing typos. Then you will not have to admit a mistake. :-)

I just have fun taking part in the discussion, and you might call it madness, but I call it fun. ;-)


Ted might have called it a tool, and a camera IS a tool to capture video. Jim J also said CLEARLY it is a professional, pocket, camera!
 
Thank you for the posting advice, I will keep it in mind.
I have been in this business for 32 years and I’ve seeing the TOOLS to capture video go thru great changes. Heck, I saw the possibilities of making it look like film all the way back in the early 90s.
Of course it has been great fun to see all go speculating! Now let’s hope we can all use the camera for our projects. By the way, the price should not be more than the TATA NANO from India.
Let’s have a bit of more fun, shall we?
 
Did this poll just change to anonymous voting?
 
It used to be public. You could see who voted for what.
 
Big corporations (like Canon) "design" prices to keep the industry going forward, not to kill it. I know - I've designed (with working prototype) few years back RAM-based HD camera capable of shooting variable HD up to 120fps by modifying existing canon HW. The manufacturing cost for Canon was estimated to be way bellow 5K. Senior Canon executive said that if Canon was to release such a camera - it would "kill" the market, not something any of the "big-5" camera companies wants to do... The project "was too advanced for its time" and was scrapped. I moved on to Tokyo to design from scratch 6K/4K restoration system for 35mm feature films for Kurosawa family...

Having said that - RED is independent and "in-Your-face" young private company (THUMBS UP TO JIM AND HIS TEAM!!!) and they might just do that ("kill the market")...

Why not? Afraid that everyone will rush to buy the camera?
A) Great financial sense for RED...
B) Give everyone the same toll - the "art" will be what separates us (independent filmmakers). No more whining "Anyone can shoot like pro with RED ONE" kind...
C) Does this looks like Jim's vision? Only he knows...

If Scarlet did meet my expectations - I would be willing to pay 5K without a blink of an eye... (for basic body without any accessories or lens)

PS: Don't You just hate when someone asks a simple question (creates and thread) and instead of people just replying and expressing their own opinion (related to the question asked) they end up fighting and insulting each other because they disagree? What a shame...
 
Well, Mr. Jannard even got in on the fun when he said a while back…. What was it? O yeah, “the inmates are running the asylum! hehehe
 
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