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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 :)

Appreciation...

Speaking as an ever hopeful scarlet user, can understand all the delays and problems (doesn't make the waiting easier lol) but admire all that RED has done and will do. Since l joined here 15 May 2009 lve been through Sony EX1 and EX1R now on to the Canon XF305 and XF105, these cameras are needed for my style of work, but l know if the scarlet had been around l'd only needed one camera the scarlet. Hope that makes sense.

l also appreciate that the corporate market for RED is not the highest in your pecking order compared to cinema as that is your main goal, but know you will get their eventually.

Looking forward to my scarlet hopefully this year!!!!
 
Jim,
As a lurker and a future RED owner, I look forward to every new thread and update post here on Reduser. From the post that say "we are working on it" to "guess who just got their camera" to learning from the professionals, you have created an amazing creature. I await the day that I enter the official RED owners club, but every day I wait, it becomes all that more exciting for the day when I get to hold your creation in my hands and then proceed to blow all my high school students minds as well as my fellow Film buddies. My friends think I'm crazy for talking about a camera that isn't even released yet (as does my wife), but as the saying goes, Good things come to those who wait.
Thanks for being the CEO you are and making the customer more than just numbers or a profit margin.
Now back to lurking I go... and awaiting the post that says "It's available"
 
As I relatively new RED customer, I'd like to say that the experience I've had has been exponentially better than any other major company I've dealt with. The lines of communication are amazing, almost unheard of. Where else can you talk directly to the CEO of a company?
 
'Late' is an intriguing concept, Jim. You can only be considered 'late' because you've kept the lines of communication open between you, your development team, your staff (etc) and your existing and potential customer base.

What you consider 'late', Sony (et al) considers 'production' - and its your infectious eagerness to get the cameras out of the door and in to the hands of the customers that keeps us all hanging here (some with RedOnes to work with, others with aspirations to work on)

Don't apologise for 'late', wear that openess as a badge of honour.
 
I've been in various other digital cinema camera forums and by any chance none are close to what Red speaks from their heart whether it's right or wrong! That's what needed for new kind of consumerism and people always expect more and expect manufacturer to speak more to them closer very closer and not answers from marketing jerks who doesn't know anything really about the product or delivery.

Red denotes fire for me which I believe every creator of this camera has in it's heart to rewrite history.

All xyz manufatures will eventually end up like Red someday for their own survival. Period.
 
Jannard said:
We really appreciate our customers (friends) support...

You put up with a lot.
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You know Jim, life is filled with choices. Red may not the only camera company in town. But its the most fun, and run by a team with the most bad-assery bar-raising attitude. I got to shoot with Epic at your studio this week, while Jarred had some skunkwork project going with a RC helicopter buzzing the place. That just doesn't happen with any other company. You make this fun and exciting.
 
It's certainly not always easy to give a toss about what the so called 'experts' say but there is a saying by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that roughly translates like this: 'People say that self-praise smells but they never seem to realize the odor of extrinsic inequitable criticism.'
I think it's still very much symptomatic that the first feature film to be shot on the RED is about a revolutionary. You guys started a revolution. I salute to that.
 
I've been a believer since the beginning. I'm just now able to Jump in and I look forward to the ride at every level.
 
Jannard said:
We really appreciate our customers (friends) support...

You put up with a lot.

We are usually late.

You have to defend your purchase with "those that don't get it".

Cigar smoke when you visit.

You have to live with our (my mostly) embarrassing posts.

Did I mention "late"?

Never finished program. The time to make upgrades would kill the faint of heart.

Endure trash talk from industry "experts".

We would not exist without you. We appreciate your patience, your contribution (we actually listen), your passionate support.

You are RED. Without you we don't mean dick. (Does this now qualify as an embarrassing post?) The Sony guys don't say this stuff...

Jim
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THIS is it!
Thats why i love Red :)
 
Even though I have been a RED user from as soon as I could get my hands on one - RED ONE #302 is sitting right next to me, no, pardon me, it's out working, as any RED should be ;-) -, I don't post here a lot, only silently read along, but at this point I feel the need to express that the appreciation Jim speaks of is absolutely mutual.

Yes, being a RED customer comes with some things that are hard to swallow, be it back ordered items or delays, and I fully admit that there are moments when these issues strain my appreciation of what RED has done to the breaking point. But whenever that happens, I fire up my RED and take a good, long look at the fabulous images it can capture, and then I realize how much RED has actually changed. Just a few years ago, the thought of owning a digital cinema camera of this quality level would have unimaginable for me.

However, what makes me appreciate RED even more and motivates me - besides the simple fact that I just don't like to let people get away with their bullshit - to defend the company and its products against naysayers and trash talkers, is the potential for even bigger change that is still there. While I'm all for the principle of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" in some instances, I've always liked people who dream big, who see what is already good not as the end of the road but as a starting point for even greater things by thinking out of the box instead of just finding new ways to emulate what has come before. And after having recently had a chance to play with an EPIC for the first time, I truly believe that there hasn't been a camera that embodies this principle so perfectly in a very long time.

Yes, I know I will get annoyed by RED's delivery problems again, still waiting for SSDs that have been backordered for months. I might even get angry for a moment because EPIC-X delivery is delayed again. But I wouldn't feel that way if these things weren't really worth the wait. That's why I will also always, at the end of the day, come back to the appreciation of what RED has already done and will still do in the future.

In that vein... Jim, Jarred, Deanan, Graeme, and all the others at RED (including a special mention of Alan and his wonderful service from RED Europe)... very much appreciated.

Awaiting both EPIC-X and the EPIC-M I inquired about with bated breath and great anticipation. Not to mention all the things that RED hasn't even talked about yet...
 
Paul Nordin said:
You know Jim, life is filled with choices. Red may not the only camera company in town. But its the most fun, and run by a team with the most bad-assery bar-raising attitude. I got to shoot with Epic at your studio this week, while Jarred had some skunkwork project going with a RC helicopter buzzing the place. That just doesn't happen with any other company. You make this fun and exciting.
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helicopter what helicopter :)

heh heh heh...
 
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