Taxidermy can't salivate and frilled lizards don't have pearly white teeth like us:
Hah. I guess it also goes by "frilled dragon." Sorry for ruining the mystique!
I seem to remember a bunch of these same people buying RED ONE sight unseen, I guess their gamble paid off. I understand your frustration, but one thing we need to realize is that RED (still a very unique private company) is unlike any regularly traded public company that answer to economic pressures to increase the bottom line by whatever means necessary, even if profits are already in the billions. That profit chart must go up up up, so after awhile they hold back tech/innovation and make incremental improvements, keeping the bar so low that they can keep releasing underwhelming new products every year which we eat up because we have no other choice. And worse, when companies form consortiums to universally agree to "hold the line" in the name of universal customer "benefit" (think OPEC). I guess my point is they are basing their standards of gaining profits through artificial manipulation and rationing the release of tech, a process we have all come to accept as the norm and has subsequently made us cynical and not trusting most companies. But here is where RED is different than the others, at least to me, it seems clear that RED is making cameras that Mr Jannard wanted himself, based on his standards. Instead of: what can we minimally release to the public this quarter to artificially maximize profits for the longest possible duration, RED says: What's the most BADASS camera current tech can support now? and then let's go beyond that! Without buying a whole new camera! Sorry about the long winded explanation, but the short answer is that we trust RED, and Jim's high standards have yet to disappoint. History has also shown that those who has this tech first, has a head start on the competition, and have reaped the rewards, isn't that reason enough?
