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SCARLET ANNOUNCEMENT - Feedback

Jarred Land said:
The Official RED Leica M mount ( that is sealed ) and will work with Scarlet and Epic out of the box is finishing testing and should be in the store early December...

Aluminum version $800.

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Lower Focal Lengths?!?!
21mm, 24mm, 35mm???
 
A DP friend who had become skeptical over the past year while I waited on Scarlet, and who was initially excited about the Canon announcement exclaimed RED brought a bazooka to a knife fight last Thursday. Very appropriate! He's now trying to figure out his own upgrades from dslr and his AF100. My order is ready to go! Hoping for that double digit serial number!
 
Mark T Workman said:
I think what is most confusing to me is what happens when you have an adapter on a mount (does this dumb down your post production info?)
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. If you use a dumb mount or an adapter on a smart mount, the camera has no idea what is going on... it just is a completely manual process, like using a normal PL lens, and metadata is not stored. Still can record just fine :)
 
Few quick questions from another thread (never got an answer):

I'm interested in Scarlet X's timelapse capabilities (some of it night time, even rigged on a german equatorial astronomy mount). Three quick questions:

What's the lowest frame rate at 5k?
What's the longest possible exposure? (looking for 30" + for astronomy)
Are these determined by the hardware's limitations or could be eventually modified via firmware update?

Cheers,

Luc
 
Hey Red guys,

I don't really like to pressing the people here but i need an answer to my questions, maeby for someone are stupid questions but for me aren't.
Or really can't you answer ?

The AI Canon mount of the Scarlet can transmit continuos atofocus in rec mode to my EF lens?
I need to know the bitrate in the different record mode to calculate how much SSD to buy.

Thanks for understand me
 
I'm a bit confused... After January 1st, the Scarlet brain will cost $9700, and that doesn't include the SSD module and neither the lens mount?
 
Francesco Cammarata said:
Hey Red guys,

I don't really like to pressing the people here but i need an answer to my questions, maeby for someone are stupid questions but for me aren't.
Or really can't you answer ?

The AI Canon mount of the Scarlet can transmit continuos atofocus in rec mode to my EF lens?
I need to know the bitrate in the different record mode to calculate how much SSD to buy.

Thanks for understand me
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I can't give you the bitrates (but I think at 4K 24P 7:1 is nearly 42MB/sec or 336Mb/sec if my maths are good) but I can give you the charts of approximate recording times on SSD (24fps) depending on the compression choice : http://www.ryanewalters.com/downloads/RedMagRecordTimes.pdf

As far as I know, the Canon Mount does not support continuous autofocus but supports touch focus and is really fast as hell for that (less than a second on the last demo video they posted here).
But for further info I think Jarred should step in.^^
 
Luc Bouvrette said:
What's the lowest frame rate at 5k?
What's the longest possible exposure? (looking for 30" + for astronomy)
Are these determined by the hardware's limitations or could be eventually modified via firmware update?
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Good questions. As a digital stills and motion camera, there certainly is an expectation of Scarlet and Epic supporting common features found on digital still cameras. 30 second exposures (or optionally longer manual exposures), as well as time lapse/interval photography are bread and butter features of many of todays digital still cameras. I'd love to know if Scarlet supports these functions.

Actually is there a Scarlet manual anywhere that may have a more comprehensive feature list? I guess that'll come later.
 
And for Jarred or anyone at Red... I may have missed the information but when a Nikon mount will be available and what kind of lenses will it take ? (will it take those with electronic aperture control ?)
 
Frame Rates on Scarlet can go down to 1FPS for a motion stream. Time lapse functions will come (eventually) for anything longer.
 
Nikon mount shipping in small numbers December, but still waiting on software... yes it is a mechanical smart mount that controls aperture.
 
Thank you for answer my question.
Hope mr. Jarred can confirm that.

Bastien Tribalat said:
I can't give you the bitrates (but I think at 4K 24P 7:1 is nearly 42MB/sec or 336Mb/sec if my maths are good) but I can give you the charts of approximate recording times on SSD (24fps) depending on the compression choice : http://www.ryanewalters.com/downloads/RedMagRecordTimes.pdf

As far as I know, the Canon Mount does not support continuous autofocus but supports touch focus and is really fast as hell for that (less than a second on the last demo video they posted here).
But for further info I think Jarred should step in.^^
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Jarred Land said:
Nikon mount shipping in small numbers December, but still waiting on software... yes it is a mechanical smart mount that controls aperture.
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Is the AF only for Nikkor lenses with the internal focus motors, or have your wizards been able to squeeze a motor drive as well?

I must admit I'm a Canon chap so out of touch with Nikon. I'm not sure how relevant the motor drive is; is it just for legacy glass or do you need it for the recent stuff. The 14-24/24-70/70-200 f2.8 triplets seem really appealing.
 
Jarred Land said:
Frame Rates on Scarlet can go down to 1FPS for a motion stream. Time lapse functions will come (eventually) for anything longer.
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Cheers Jarred, thanks for the info. Same for long exposures?
 
Jarred Land said:
Nikon mount shipping in small numbers December, but still waiting on software... yes it is a mechanical smart mount that controls aperture.
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You've been very patient with us Jarred. Would you agree with me that the best idea for serious buyers with only mount issues pending (Leica, Nikon etc.) is to simply put their deposit down on the Scarlet-X AL CANON MOUNT PACKAGE and work out the mount replacement upgrades or exchanges later?

Obviously, the Canon AL mount is the cheapest so it does seem like the logical choice for these issues...
 
Mark T Workman said:
You've been very patient with us Jarred. Would you agree with me that the best idea for serious buyers with only mount issues pending (Leica, Nikon etc.) is to simply put their deposit down on the Scarlet-X AL CANON MOUNT PACKAGE and work out the mount replacement upgrades or exchanges later?

Obviously, the Canon AL mount is the cheapest so it does seem like the logical choice for these issues...
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Best idea is to get your order in before the price goes up at the end of year and go with either the canon or PL mount... as the other mount options will not be ready in package/upgrade form till after the new year.. given the price increase, you end up paying less for two mounts and get your camera sooner than you would if you waited to buy a brain with just a Nikon or Leica-M mount.
 
Hi Jarred...How will we know the order of delivery? Is it embedded in the order number we got after paying the deposit?
 
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