Another fear...

[Zach Zoller]

Jim, give me your "experimental" sensors and anything else you may be experimenting with and I'd love to go shoot a feature with them. If there are glitches, bugs, or unknowns I'll take them as well.

 

[JorgePease]

We are photographers interested in the Scarlet FF35. We also want to capture motion pictures as we turn more and more of those jobs down and have personal interests in feature films.

The Scarlet FF35 with it's higher res and DR (as compared to S35) is at the high end of our budget but definitely in there ... while the Epic would not be considered. Since this camera intends to compete with DSLR's I wonder if this thread's perspective did not fully take that into account .. most or all of you are strictly film makers I believe.

That probably had some bearing in RED's strategy though I remember not too long ago when resolutions and frame rates at these prices was nothing but a pipe dream so it's funny to hear all this concerns. A good film maker will take the cheapest of these cameras and win an academy award

 

[Tim Hole]

The "I want, I want" is really frustrating when we are delivering so much, so fast, for so little. We bend over backwards for our customers. We are developing at a rapid pace when others are closing the doors or shutting off development dollars.

Have a great Holiday Season.

Jim

This is the negative of being so open with development. "Avarice is always poor" as Samuel Johnson says. But more than that I think the issue is trust. Jim and his team are a business true enough, but to be a follower you have to be anointed. Forget the autocracy of the past and have a bit of faith. Look back over the last eight months at the evolution of the Epic/Scarlet.

And while you are at it have another look at the Steven Soderberg post.

HAVE FAITH AND TRUST THAT RED ARE DEVELOPING THE QUINTESSENTIAL COMBINATION OF DIGITAL STILL AND MOTION CAMERAS...period!

 

[Tim Whitcomb]

I'm new and STILL excited to get my first RED ONE... the rest of this is almost as unbelievable as RED was 3 years ago... that Monstro 617 is just plain SICK! Even fully decked out with EVERY OPTION and BRAIN and SENSOR... its still priced less than SONY's TOL 1080P camera ! RU effin kidding me? RED RULES.

The ONLY thing that bothers me is Shawn Nelson (my assoc in PDX) saying he will get EPIC #27... so, does that mean new ordering is based on OLD ordering? I waited for the very reasons Jim talked about to others in this post.. I wanted to see many things get flushed out as I am NOT an early adopter of most tech... but what happened to "THe first shall be the last and the last shall be the first??!!"

 

[Rick Darge]

Why does that bother you? Early adopters threw down their cash on a non-existent product. Early adopters like Shawn were the one of the many reasons why Red is where it is today. Early adopters were the guerillas on the ground. I love the fact that your serial number stays with you and lets you in line early. It's only fair. It's like signing up for classes at college. The more units you already have, the earlier you are allowed to register and pick the classes you want. Seniority.

 

[Mike Peters]

I think the thinking and experimentation thats gone into developing the Red DSMC cameras is very sound and impressive from an engineering and artistic point of view.

Especially being able to customise the camera setup to suit.

I can hardly wait to get my hands on one.

I'm continually amazed that no other big camera company got here first.