...thanks for answering. So I end up with a difference of almost half of the higher estimation... some gap to bridge. One full day in a ready-to-shoot situation might well require the extra-burden, extra-cash of 8-10 bricks... Sigh...
Reading recent threads/posts, I sometimes feel like I'm about to turn a "clipped whites/crushed blacks" maniac myself (while I was until now so naive as to be simply impressed by what the camera could do in that particular field and many others)
But I'd rather remain a sleep-mode weirdo instead, in bad need of that basic feature for my own, plain and humble usage...
I don't mean to look stubborn or malevolent, being a red fan myself. I DO understand the need to convince the high-end 35 mm film production markets. I do understand that DP coming from that market have to be told how different from film RAW is. However, I still don't understand why a market such as eng and lower budgets prod seems somewhat ignored, and why one of its basic needs go unadressed.
One may think that the future of the red one, especially since Epic has been announced, lies also in the hands of the comparatively VERY many people like me, I guess, who have been through the torture and limitations of basically any former digital video format (and thus well aware of what the red one has to offer when it comes to clipped whites) ? Whose dream is therefore to shoot such a camera at such a price ? Who don't count by USD millions, who are ready to bargain more details in the highlights for acceptable grain in the shadows, and to deal with a 8-9 stops latitude... but do need a basic feature to be enabled... and are left with a "no-promise" warning.
Clumsy english, no doubt, well...
