EPIC Titanium mount... why not stainless steel?

[Vance Colvig]

Thermal stability is why Red went the Ti route if I remember correctly. Some Red One owners complained of focus shift/back focus change when the camera heated up. Ti has much better dimentional stability than Al when heated, but then again the Scarlet/Epic cameras proably do not get as hot as the R1. Don't know about Canon, but there are many SLR's with stainless mounts screwed to plastic camera bodies. DSLR cameras do not generate the kind of heat that Red cameras do.

 

[JamminJG]

it's weight. It's all about the weight.

 

[Björn Benckert]

Thermal stability is why Red went the Ti route if I remember correctly. Some Red One owners complained of focus shift/back focus change when the camera heated up. Ti has much better dimentional stability than Al when heated, but then again the Scarlet/Epic cameras proably do not get as hot as the R1. Don't know about Canon, but there are many SLR's with stainless mounts screwed to plastic camera bodies. DSLR cameras do not generate the kind of heat that Red cameras do.

DSLR cameras does not really relay on a perfect flange distance. Since Most lenses are not marked, and if they are they are quite in accurate.
They do auto focus with sharp detect and by doing so an exact flange is not so crucial However it's strange that they are plastics because a long heavy lens can very much give a "swing shift" effect. like shoting right towards a flat wall and not being able to hold the top and bottom of the wall in focus at the same time.

 

[Tehben Dean]

Canon lenses are relatively cheap, just think of it as a $300 mount upgrade for each lens in your kit. (6-7 lens kit)

 

[Evin Grant]

The aluminum Canon and Nikon mounts also have much more material in them with the locking feature, the are much sturdier than the mounts on the manufacturers cameras even if they are thin steel.