Scarlet - Complete Kits for the Complete Range?

[Gareth Gerrard]

I hope that when RED let us know what's going with Scarlet (when we can buy/deposit) they will offer 'Complete Kits' for the whole range... not just the fixed zoom version... makes sense to me to have a 'out of the box ready' camera range....

Personally, I'm still indecisive about which one I want to get...

Just my 2 cents...

 

[GPSchnyder]

Would kick the whole Idea of "build yourself the cm you want", don't you think?

 

[Lee Saxon]

Would kick the whole Idea of "build yourself the cm you want", don't you think?

"Build the camera you want" is one thing, but the R1 makes a battery (and its charger, and its mount, grrr) an option. Can't we all come together on wanting the camera to turn on? And it appears you can't even operate the Scarlet without that SLR-looking control arm.

Let's just include the accessories that aren't really optional. And for the current price, Red. Up to $50k for cameras that don't come with batteries. Yeah right, where do I sign up, and also, do you have any bridges available in Brooklyn?

 

[Jonathan Stevenson]

I like this idea. They should offer some kind of "basic kit" or "startup kit" that'll get you out the door and recording. After that, you can add all the accessories you want. Just seems simple and sensible to package stuff like that.

 

[Kenneth Elkington]

They are offering a basic kit for the 8x scarlet. We don't know exactly whats in it, but it's been said that it will be shoot ready.

 

[Lawrence Bansbach]

They are offering a basic kit for the 8x scarlet. We don't know exactly whats in it, but it's been said that it will be shoot ready.

The original camera was going to have had a 16:9, minimally 5.3-MP (3,072 x 1,728) imager, a 4.8-inch LCD, memory slots (but no CF cards), I/O (HDMI and HD-SDI), and two-channel audio. Despite the vague, intentionally incomplete (and therefore misleading to competitors) renderings, I suspect that some type of XLR inputs would have been included. With the nonmodular design, every feature was the best that Red could include; in other words, it was the best price-feature compromise they could come up with, principally because the camera couldn’t easily be upgraded. That was for $3,000. Now $3,000 buys only the brain with fixed lens. How much of the $750 "basic kit" will storage account for -- $300? So add that to the original $3,000, and you get $3,300 for a fully functional original Scarlet with storage. I hope that for $3,750 Red provides equal or better functionality, but I suspect that the $750 will buy the bottom-of-the-line -- e.g., a 3-inch LCD rather than a 4.8-inch. In some ways, the vaunted modularity may work against the fixed-lens model.

 

[Kenneth Elkington]

That is true Tzedekh, but the original $3000 Scarlet was a speculative price, if they're not offering a complete kit for $3000 now, it's unlikely that that price point was ever feasible, given that they are now closer to creating a final product. I want the original price as much as the next guy, but I doubt it would be possible given what RED now knows about the profit margins of their upcoming products.