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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

I'm curious. . . who here on RED User is certain they will be buying an Epic X?

My purchase plan is to get a Scarlet FF35 ( no trade in ) and then trade the R1 in on a Epic 645. At the end we'd have 2 cameras that can play together nicely. That would work if they held to the proposed schedule. ( No illusions about that happening )

If the Monstro based cam's are looking like they will be more than 6-8 months behind the Epic X I'd try to get an X to fill the gap. Some of the answer to this question is what the "free" accessories are worth, batteries, IO box etc. I'm guessing $4k ?

Matt Uhry
www.mattuhry.com
 
Tim Whitcomb said:
I will be buying my first couple used Red One's when all these early adopters upgrade to EPIC because I agree, the Red One already IS an incredible camera and as a filmmaker, I will take a great script shot on a DVX-100 over crap shot on an FF35 Monstro anyday;)

So hurry up Red, pump out those Epic's so I can score some trade in Red One's for Sub $10K :P
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I think RED keeps the trade ins....

OP - Hanging onto my R1, will be purchasing another (hopefully 2) shortly.

I can use the $10K for other things...
 
Matt Uhry said:
My purchase plan is to get a Scarlet FF35 ( no trade in ) and then trade the R1 in on a Epic 645. At the end we'd have 2 cameras that can play together nicely. That would work if they held to the proposed schedule. ( No illusions about that happening )

If the Monstro based cam's are looking like they will be more than 6-8 months behind the Epic X I'd try to get an X to fill the gap. Some of the answer to this question is what the "free" accessories are worth, batteries, IO box etc. I'm guessing $4k ?

Matt Uhry
www.mattuhry.com
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Not a bad plan.
 
Unless the gap between the x and monstro is really great, I'll pass on the X and wait for the ff35.
In the meantime I'll get the scarlet and I'll stick a big X on it.
 
I'll probably go for the FF35, not because of the chip size, but because of the 16 bit dynamic range.

But Mysterium X Select and REDCODE 250 are unknown beasts that could change my decision.
We will see once we have more info.

Antoine
 
strange thing is I remember reading somewhere in the beginning of RED that Jim was frustrated with having to buy a new camera every time a better one came along, thus the upgradable R1.
 
We'll be getting into the X, if only because it's a cheaper way into the whole Epic system. Then a Scarlet for a crash cam.

As for the post about Jim and his frustrations at having to buy new cameras, well, I don't think anyone has had to buy a new Red 1 when going from upgrade to upgrade, which you'd have to do with other brands.
 
roryhinds said:
strange thing is I remember reading somewhere in the beginning of RED that Jim was frustrated with having to buy a new camera every time a better one came along, thus the upgradable R1.
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Show me another company that is willing to buy back the old hardware in order to help users move to their new system. We have something way better than an upgradable R1 in my opinion.
 
cant decide...hoping for a 5k pl mount monstro with higher dynami range
guess hace to choose...right now epic ff35 with pl lens.
 
Here's a thought. Even though the FF35 is a bigger sensor (plus all benefits associated with it like increase dynamic range, etc), I've noticed that the film lenses that currently exist, either Cooke S4, Arri Master/Ultra Prime, etc. covers the Super35mm format. Does this mean that we either have vignetting on the sensor, or the lens cannot cover the entire sensor and we have to get a new set of lenses just for this sensor? I'm all for FF35 (with Monstro) but to have to invest on a new set of lenses just to accommodate this format (while being incompatible with film camera lenses) may be a little too much. Thoughts anyone?
 
clueluzz said:
Does this mean that we either have vignetting on the sensor, or the lens cannot cover the entire sensor and we have to get a new set of lenses just for this sensor?
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S35 lenses definitely won't cover the whole FF35 sensor. I'm sure there will be a PL mount windowed mode though, just like there are windowed modes on the RED One.

The FF35 is a 6k sensor so you will still be getting plenty of resolution in a PL windowed mode.

You should be able to use still Nikon and Canon 35mm lenses at the full 6k with no vignetting.
 
Epic X

Epic X

We will go Epic X. We love it and looks so nice... The update costs very little money for what it is, we think...
 
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