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RED ONE, The True Workaholic..

Point of this thread is the reliability of a RED ONE... keeps on ticking.

Jim
 
Well, I have one of the better survival stories of a RED One, however I think I'll keep it private, since it's a bit embarrassing. Let's just say that the R1 is one of the most bulletproof camera systems available (excluding film cameras) and it can take a LOT of abuse. Yes, it's heavy. Yes, there are better cameras for handheld. But this camera is a tank, and I mean that in a good way.
 
Steve Sherrick said:
Well, I have one of the better survival stories of a RED One, however I think I'll keep it private, since it's a bit embarrassing. Let's just say that the R1 is one of the most bulletproof camera systems available (excluding film cameras) and it can take a LOT of abuse. Yes, it's heavy. Yes, there are better cameras for handheld. But this camera is a tank, and I mean that in a good way.
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I wonder if anyone has literally shot the Red? Can it take 9mm, 5.56? :-)
 
Joseph S. said:
Wow, 75 hours on mine after 1.5 years.

I'm really ashamed. This thread is a great wake-up call for me to go out and shoot more.
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No reason to be ashamed. But the sobering part of that is you have paid -at least- $350/hr to use your Red One.
 
Paul Nordin said:
No reason to be ashamed. But the sobering part of that is you have paid -at least- $350/hr to use your Red One.
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That is an interesting number, but for a useful cost analysis we should know how much time his Red spent on set. If for example he typically spends twice as much time (certainly conservative) on set as he does actually shooting then halve that number. $175/hr is cheap.

A 5:1 ratio would likely be more accurate, and $70/hr is dirt cheap. Of course this doesn't take maintenance and upgrade costs into account, but those wouldn't change the bottom line that much.

I know that cost of ownership wasn't the original intent of the thread, but if someone were to provide a reasonable accounting of theirs, I'm certain the number would be as impressive as the total run time.
 
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I personally know of people with RED ONEs still powering up after a studio fire, being struck by lightning, and after being dropped from a three-story balcony. Pretty crazy...

BC
 
Paul Nordin said:
No reason to be ashamed. But the sobering part of that is you have paid -at least- $350/hr to use your Red One.
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But this formula only works if you write off the value of your R1 (and put it at 26k in the first place.) With the Stage 2 program, and selling your R1 for 12k, you actually earn money. So one could argue that a low hour camera made more money per hour than a hight number camera ;)

[That's what happens when you took Advanced Calculus in High School...]

I can also add having witnessed the R1's tank-like build quality when a fellow cameraman, who shall remain nameless for this exercise, had a certain experience with gravity. Shooting could continue for the rest of that day.

Wasn't there a thread many, many months ago about a badly abused R1 that just would not stop rocking on?
 
I personally know of a RED that fell with a 2575 from long sticks, re-powered and continued the shoot.

The AC hasn't ever NOT checked if the head is properly secured ever again, though....
 
I have shot several projects on a camera after it "fell off" from helicopter (not under my care). True, it needed some TLC from RED, but I don't know of ANY camera that would survive such a fall and be reparable to shoot again...

:sifone: Peter
 
Not bad building a tank of a product for "not knowing what we're doing, but we're going to do it anyways" attitude. Keep it up! :-)
 
Shawn Nelson said:
I wonder if anyone has literally shot the Red? Can it take 9mm, 5.56? :-)
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I'm sure it takes 7.62...

:rolleyes5:


Peter Majtan said:
I have shot several projects on a camera after it "fell off" from helicopter (not under my care). True, it needed some TLC from RED, but I don't know of ANY camera that would survive such a fall and be reparable to shoot again...

:sifone: Peter
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WOW!

Now I'm not gonna freak out when I drop my Scarlet from one feet from the ground.

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reality is on march 10, 2010 i was in austin and stewart came and visited me and taught me that trick, at that time i had 2071, which was 82 shoot days ago and 52 preps. so if you extrapolate 14 hour days ( which is very generous usually longer), plus 10 hours for prep then the number jumps to 3739...but that is only with the #0031X, there was a #0031 That i turned in sometime in mid 2008...i shot a timelapse of me driving to lake forest to turn it in, so i have the exact date of #0031x birth, and #0031 death, so once i get home (in detroit now), ill find that content, ill extrapolate the hours on that camera and give you all a total...

dino

p.s. i am working everyday until the 28th...so it will climb...
 
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