Welcome to our community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Register Log in
  • 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 :)

Attitude adjustment...

Good advice. The only time to discount is when the project itself is good, or it is an organization that is great and they just don't have a big budget. Or throw in extra value for your best clients, they are the ones that deserve the best service, not the grinders.

Tim Whitcomb said:
Creative Cow had a great article several years ago about "grinders" the worst most disloyal clients on earth. Learning to say "no" is also a great way to keep your rates up. In my experience, clients arguing rate end up being nightmares who are never happy no matter how low you go. Whereas more often than not my best clients who pay full rates and are also among my happiest. Jut say no to Grinders. they will never come back with that "big budget next time" that they always promise... my two cents.
Click to expand...
 
After reading your posts, I have been forced to remember the fact that Red actually changed my life. For the past 5 years I have eaten and fed my business and employees off Red. It's actually a good thing to get an R1 at 4k. One can actually go out and make some movies and not ever worry about the bank calling you to repo your house or worry about taking on Crappy jobs just to pay for your equipment.

Thank you Red.

There's always a positive
 
Dennis Hingsberg said:
Scott I think this is the future. Adobe is moving to cloud based software, and although Apple makes decent money off its hardware its the software that brings in residual income. If RED wants to win this game then I can only see this as the next logicial move.
Click to expand...

I don't want to follow on a quite off topic tangent, but have you looked at Apple's earnings? They don't make decent money from hardware - they make almost all their billions of dollars of revenue from hardware. I just don't see any way that your idea would be possible unless the camera cost under $100 to build...
 
Eric Santiago said:
Man I remember going from Alias|Wavefront PowerAnimator to Maya at around 90K.

Then watched Maya drop all the way down to 11K in two years maybe less.

But not as bad as EIAS from 12K to practically free :(
Click to expand...

I was one of the first lots in the country to train on it. It was pretty primitive compared to what I thought a top end 3D package would work like, most of the advanced stuff had to be added in modules (hmm, this is starting to sound familiar). They had a quarter million dollar system there with modules, and it was still primitive. The workflow only caught up with my ideas in recent years by the looks of it. The frightening part is the previous package was even worse. This proves the point, what we think is good design today, may often be moronic, all we need to do is ask the right people.
 
dear sir..I am a POOR WORKING UNDERWATER CAMERA GUY FROM CANADA..WOULD LIKE TO BUY A USED REDMX....BUT NOT TO MIDDLE DECEMEBER//WILL THEIR BE ANY LEFT BY THEN..COULD I PUT ONE ON HOLD IF POSSIBLE..I HAVE THE UNDERWATER HOUSING BUT HAVE BEEN RENTING CAMERAS.. JIM KOZMIK
 
Stephen Gentle said:
I don't want to follow on a quite off topic tangent, but have you looked at Apple's earnings? They don't make decent money from hardware - they make almost all their billions of dollars of revenue from hardware. I just don't see any way that your idea would be possible unless the camera cost under $100 to build...
Click to expand...


Itunes?
 
Thinking out loud.

With the current status of the Scarlet, wouldn't it have been smarter to buy a BT RED MX instead?

Aside from the HDRx option, what is the enticement of the Scarlet now?

Not really feeling this possible Dragon update since its it might not be possible.

I would love to be wrong of course.
 
For $8k-14k it's still not a bad deal for a camera that can resolve ~3.2k.

Eric Santiago said:
Thinking out loud.

With the current status of the Scarlet, wouldn't it have been smarter to buy a BT RED MX instead?

Aside from the HDRx option, what is the enticement of the Scarlet now?

Not really feeling this possible Dragon update since its it might not be possible.

I would love to be wrong of course.
Click to expand...
 
Form factor was a big selling point for us.

Eric Santiago said:
Thinking out loud.

With the current status of the Scarlet, wouldn't it have been smarter to buy a BT RED MX instead?

Aside from the HDRx option, what is the enticement of the Scarlet now?

Not really feeling this possible Dragon update since its it might not be possible.

I would love to be wrong of course.
Click to expand...
 
I have used both extensively and, I have to say, the Scarlet UI and features are just so much better. R1 is great but it has been improved upon.
 
Terry VerHaar said:
I have used both extensively and, I have to say, the Scarlet UI and features are just so much better. R1 is great but it has been improved upon.
Click to expand...

Thanks everyone for talking me off the ledge ;)

I probably wouldn't be thinking about this if I had the Scarlet in my hands.

Just got word that it should ship this week :)
 
Given the CRAAAZY rush on people buying Epics due to the price drops are the 2-3 week estimates for Epic's still holding true? Just took the plunge and paid last week, hoping to have it pre-christmas.
 
In todays world it's better to buy an used camera that has still warranty left on it. All camera models become "old" very fast and resell value is low. Used EPIC's in good condition will go for about 12k$ in no time.

Remember, technology is moving forwards and prices are moving down faster every day. 10 years from now and every consumer dslr will have EPIC specs. 10 years from now the cheapest cameras are more than enough to shoot for the big screen and then only skill matters, it will not be about the camera at all anymore. If you don't have great skills you will not have job anymore. Video world is still in that situation where guys with expensive cameras get jobs just because they have those cameras even if they don't have better skills than your average joe. It will change though, very fast. Same happened in stills world. Photographers who didn't have great skills lost their jobs because everyone was able to buy a camera that was able to take as good pictures as the camera that those "professionals" were using. Photography as a profession is dying. There is always a job for talented photographer, but only fraction of people are willing to pay for photo sessions anymore and that fraction is only getting smaller.

Don't wait for the next big thing. You are not in hurry to buy "future proof" camera (there will never be one), you are in hurry to develop great set of skills so that you can still have a job in this business in the future.
 
Josh Snyder said:
In todays world it's better to buy an used camera that has still warranty left on it. All camera models become "old" very fast and resell value is low. Used EPIC's in good condition will go for about 12k$ in no time.

Remember, technology is moving forwards and prices are moving down faster every day. 10 years from now and every consumer dslr will have EPIC specs. 10 years from now the cheapest cameras are more than enough to shoot for the big screen and then only skill matters, it will not be about the camera at all anymore. If you don't have great skills you will not have job anymore. Video world is still in that situation where guys with expensive cameras get jobs just because they have those cameras even if they don't have better skills than your average joe. It will change though, very fast. Same happened in stills world. Photographers who didn't have great skills lost their jobs because everyone was able to buy a camera that was able to take as good pictures as the camera that those "professionals" were using. Photography as a profession is dying. There is always a job for talented photographer, but only fraction of people are willing to pay for photo sessions anymore and that fraction is only getting smaller.

Don't wait for the next big thing. You are not in hurry to buy "future proof" camera (there will never be one), you are in hurry to develop great set of skills so that you can still have a job in this business in the future.
Click to expand...

10 years from now??? More like 1 year from now.
There are big gains to be made in the video industry, which is lagging behind compared to stills quality. The tech exist, it just needs be applied.

When you think about it, Red cameras are nothing special. We had 4k motion sensors 10 years ago.
Red is simply the first video company in a long time which tries to be competitive.
 
Roger Valdes said:
10 years from now??? More like 1 year from now.
There are big gains to be made in the video industry, which is lagging behind compared to stills quality. The tech exist, it just needs be applied.

When you think about it, Red cameras are nothing special. We had 4k motion sensors 10 years ago.
Red is simply the first video company in a long time which tries to be competitive.
Click to expand...

I don't think we will see 5K 120fps RAW on Canon's 500$ models next year.

The next Gopro (late 2013) will have 4K 30fps so yeah I think 10 years is a bit too long for companies that still want to be in the business. Maybe 5 years is closer than 10.
 
Josh Snyder said:
I don't think we will see 5K 120fps RAW on Canon's 500$ models next year.

The next Gopro (late 2013) will have 4K 30fps so yeah I think 10 years is a bit too long for companies that still want to be in the business. Maybe 5 years is closer than 10.
Click to expand...

Well, it will be 4K with a fixed crappy lens and with probably a lossy codec. What I'm eagerly awaiting to see is the mass production of 4K displays. This will be the real impact in the industry, not 3D, in my humble opinion. NHK testing their 8K Broadcast might be another thing to look closely. I'm hoping that our 6K material goes well in this format. What concerns me is if broadcasters or content makers will skip 4K completely and go straight to 8K. Sony seems to be endorsing 4K, but, at the same time, its going to make an upgrade for 8K recording for their F65... All in all, interesting times!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top