RED: Dream Features

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Is see what you mean but having an optical out on the camera and an optical in on the recording device adds a lot of cost. If all you want to do is overcrank for short bursts. Then it could make more sense to mainline it right from the boards on the camera to the RAM option, skipping the transition to optical signal and back.

Yeah, a RAM buffer module that is directly installed in place of the RAW port or FLASH interface would be more cost effective.

Since RAM is so expensive what might be more interesting is to have a RAID system that skips the optical transition. Mounting say 8 drives on the rails and connecting to the RAID controller which has a direct connection to the camera. Physically unwieldy maybe, but potentially worth it.

That might be interesting to some. If it's always on a crane, dolly, legs, etc.. it wouldn't be a bad setup. But if you're going to go with hard drive RAID, I would think it would make more sense to just put in the RAW port and then tether the camera. But that's just my thinking on that... I'd rather manage a fiber cable coming out of the camera than lug an extra 75lbs of hard drives.

 

[Ace]

Since RAM is so expensive...

Actually, in the past couple of months, RAM prices have plummeted. 1 GIG of highspeed DDR2 ram is now 35 bucks. Compare that to a few months ago when it was a hundred something per gig.

 

[Jonathan L. Bowen]

When I got my Mac G5 two years and three months ago, I paid $9,000 for this setup, and it was mostly the 8 gigs of RAM, which at the time was brand new to have that much RAM on a computer like this. I think the RAM was almost half the price. It has definitely gotten cheaper.