2 New things...

[Stephen Williams]

witness mark is old news....

Hi Jarred,

I don't see any on the focus scale.

Stephen

 

[Marc Berger]

(About the extra $400.-)

For the sake of beauty: Just give your reservation number back, and order new, and you will get a Red One with the new mount for free!
Is $400,- more -and we can choose to pay it- worth to wait two or three months longer? Not to me.
Would be a question a for a vote thread.
BTW Thanks for the new sticks! I wished Red would also make them in aluminium. Great news!

Marc

 

[Nick Gardner]

Please don't discontinue the old lock ring, I know you say the new one is an option, but I would hate to see it replace the old one. You can remove the ears if they get in the way, the molded finger grippy things, not so much.

Nick

 

[Marc Berger]

Maybe the old one is even better if you work in the cold with gloves?
Marc

 

[Tony Lorentzen]

Just to clear things up. I've had a little sleep now and yesterday was a shitty day to begin with, so my outlook on things is a little different now

 

[Nick Gardner]

Maybe the old one is even better if you work in the cold with gloves?

Yup. There is a reason every PL mount in the world is more or less the same - it is a good design and works well. If it sucked it would have been changed 15 years ago.

Nick

 

[oldphart]

If RED gave me a suitcase full of money, I would buy a RED ONE!!! I would be the happiest person alive!!!

Unless it was Zimbabwe dollars in it, a suitcaseful would probably get you at least one Epic.

 

[Martin Weiss]

Unless it was Zimbabwe dollars in it, a suitcaseful would probably get you at least one Epic.

And since that money is required for an Epic, Red ought to ship the suitcase free of charge. :clown2:

 

[Simon Valderrama]

CF cards

CF cards

A few days ago the 16gb CF cards are a prime example.. after a year we finally give up and go do it ourselves, announce it, thinking everyone is gonna be doing backflips because we went through the incredible effort to pretty much jump ahead of the entire consumer flash industry, but no, we get a buncha hate mail that we are gouging customers

well... what i did after the announcement was just ordering two 16GB CF cards.
Sure it was more silent and unnoticeable compared to hate mails, but sure it's what everyone who appreciated the announcement is going to do.
better than backflips no?

 

[Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock]

I was doing backflips, shooting tests, posting on this board *and* ordering a couple of 16gb cards all at the same time.

Jochen

 

[Simon Valderrama]

I was doing backflips, shooting tests, posting on this board *and* ordering a couple of 16gb cards all at the same time.

yeah, probably i wasn't backflippin' because the camera still isn't in my hands.
the bittersweet taste of waiting.

 

[zak forrest]

Please don't discontinue the old lock ring, I know you say the new one is an option, but I would hate to see it replace the old one. You can remove the ears if they get in the way, the molded finger grippy things, not so much.

Nick

It's nice to be able to remove some of them, and sometimes when handholding a naked red it's nice to rest a finger on one of the ears for added support.

 

[zak forrest]

Fill lights take away ALL the fun..........

Darius Khondji has said that cinematographers use fill light out of fear.

 

[Matt Garrett]

Please don't discontinue the old lock ring, I know you say the new one is an option, but I would hate to see it replace the old one. You can remove the ears if they get in the way, the molded finger grippy things, not so much.

Nick

agreed. sometimes it's a tight fit getting a ff in there with a set of standard speeds.

 

[Piers McGrail]

So it's only optional up to the #3000's?

Although it looks more streamlined, it also looks like it would might be hard to tighten a difficult lens, particularly in a pressure situation- say if it's raining, and your fingers are wet.

I don't know about everyone else, but I'd like the old lock ring. Any way you can keep it optional past the #4000's....? At first impressions I'd probably pay to keep the old ones to be honest.

 

[C.H.Haskell]

Thanks Jarred, looks great...let me know when upgrades are available. Cheers.

 

[Rodrigo Lizana]

Expensive ??

Expensive ??

And $400 for a part on a lens mount also seems very expensive.....

Expensive ?. You should try traditional film camera accessories !. Hey $ 400 is the price of a glowmask or half the price of a ground glass !.

Perhaps updates may be released in a regular period, like in 1-2 year interval so that way you can rest sure your Red One is going to be the latest model until a known date. Opps I forgot that Epic was already announced

Regards

 

[Jarred Land]

.. and this are each individually machined, not cast

 

[chuck colburn]

Yeah 4 bills ain't nothing. Even if they were cast or injected molded they would still have to be machined. In fact for a piece such as this it's cheaper to put a piece of tubing in a CNC and turn out the patrs on a continuous basis. And don't forget it's more then just one piece with precision threads and tapped holes. This is not an extension tube. lol