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SCARLET ANNOUNCEMENT - Feedback

Cid J Salcido Uyarra said:
is the new Dragon sensor for Scarlet-X gonna be S35 or FF35?
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Since Scarlet-X doesn't really have the horsepower to do much with 6K+, I would love love love love love love love love for Red to move to FF35 but keep it 14 megapixels.

Nikon stuck with 12 megapixels in the transition from the APS D2x to the FF35 D3 and it bought them a quantum leap in low light performance. Imagine 4K at a clean 50k ISO...

But Epic users who can take advantage of higher resolutions will want them, and two sensor programs would be a waste of money...
 
Jarred Land said:
You wanna know something crazy? on the bolts for the right side of the Scarlet.. we couldn't find any stock bolts that looked right. So we made them ourselves. Every single one of those little bolts.. machined by RED. Most people would never notice.. but we do :)
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I can see it now. Everyone is sitting around a table at Red, discussing how to create Scarlet....

Jim: Any ideas on reducing build costs for Scarlet?
Jarred: Those bolts on the side, I'm not too sure about em...
Jim: Good call. Let's machine custom bolts!
Jarred: Yeah!! Badass!!

It's this kind of incredibly awesome insanity that makes Red my kind of company! I LOVE IT, GUYS! :)
 
Hello all.

Is there any truth in Philip Bloom's statement that the 3K and 2K resolutions are too noisy and blocky, due to the cropping, and therefore unusable?


Cheers
 
To one of the Red members. I ordered a Scarlet with multiple extras Nov. 5th but later this week or early next I plane on adding a rocket and another lens to my order. Will it be shipped out at the same time as the Scarlet or will it ship before or after? That is if my Scarlet hasn't shipped yet.


Thanks
 
Martin Beek said:
Hello all.

Is there any truth in Philip Bloom's statement that the 3K and 2K resolutions are too noisy and blocky, due to the cropping, and therefore unusable?


Cheers
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Don't hold me to this but I don't think it is. He might get noise from not having a fast enough lens when shooting higher frame rates at lower resolutions.

Although I'm sure Philip would've known that. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere on here that when you lower your res on RED's it crops to prevent lowering the quality in some way? Where as if it didn't crop it would have worst quality based on the size of the sensor. Similar to what Canon's do. I'll look around for it quickly. But I'm pretty sure the blocky part of that is wrong.
 
Martin Beek said:
Is there any truth in Philip Bloom's statement that the 3K and 2K resolutions are too noisy and blocky, due to the cropping, and therefore unusable?
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If you scale down a 4K image to match your 2K crop version, and put them side by side, the noise on the 2K image will be more apparent since the "grain structure" is two times bigger than a 4K file scaled down. Is it "too noisy"? I think it depends on how you intend to use it. You can try it with the R3D Tonaci posted, go in RedCine Pro X, in the Frame menu, and do a center crop at 2K of resolution, 2048 x 1080.
 
Alexandre Desjardins said:
If you scale down a 4K image to match your 2K crop version, and put them side by side, the noise on the 2K image will be more apparent since the "grain structure" is two times bigger than a 4K file scaled down. Is it "too noisy"? I think it depends on how you intend to use it. You can try it with the R3D Tonaci posted, go in RedCine Pro X, in the Frame menu, and do a center crop at 2K of resolution, 2048 x 1080.
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Thanks, good advice - 'll give it a try this evening.
 
Hi Red Folks, who ever is willing to answer this.

I am planning to place an order for the Scarlet X $14,015.00 package. I'll have all the funds set to go by the 23rd and I'm finding out that the banks are rather funny about large purchases these days. I had planned to place the 10% deposit and then pay the balance when ready as specified. I'm told ,by the bank, that to do this I need to pre-authorize the cost for the final charge and notify them within 24 hours with the exact amount down to the penny. 1 cent more or less and the bank will refuse the charge due to security concerns. They will not keep it on file. Of course I have no way of knowing when the balance will be due and what the shipping will be . I had looked at purchasing FAQs and originally there was an option to spread payments over no more than 3 cards but from what I've read here recently that is no longer an option at least for a Scarlet.

So my questions .

1.) Can I put a larger deposit down so that the deposit and balance individually will not trigger their fraud department?

2.) Is there an option to place the deposit by credit card and pay the balance using an alternate method?
 
It just occurred to me that Scarlet may not be 3k for $3k, but it is 5k for $6k if you subtract the accessories included with the brain for $9750. Or you could consider that 5k is 3x the resolution of 3k and $9k for the body is 3x $3k :)
 
Noah Yuan-Vogel said:
It just occurred to me that Scarlet may not be 3k for $3k, but it is 5k for $6k if you subtract the accessories included with the brain for $9750. Or you could consider that 5k is 3x the resolution of 3k and $9k for the body is 3x $3k :)
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If you're interested; we have a job opportunity for a bookkeeper with exactly that creative attitude... ;-)
 
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Jarred Land said:
agree.. my overall favorite lens of all time. Having Autofocus and Stabilization work with it on Scarlet ( and Epic ) is an incredibly combination.
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What lens is it please?
 
Martin Beek said:
Hello all.

Is there any truth in Philip Bloom's statement that the 3K and 2K resolutions are too noisy and blocky, due to the cropping, and therefore unusable?
Cheers
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Short answer No, and Yes.

3k is totally fine (by my standards), 2kWS has improved with the latest firmware, but it isn't the epitome of sharpness and resolution because it's 2048x854 pixels.
 
Jarred or Jim, could you tells us if Scarlet-X Al mount is still expected to start shipping on December 1st?
And any news about the Quad Charger?
Thank you so much!
 
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