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Scarlet Dragon or Epic MX

Matthew Scott said:
Yeah man,I've seen those too. I see the differences, honestly I do. But they are difficult to see, unless you dig. There's some headroom in the highlights, awesome, but I've never had an issue with highlights before. There's slightly better colour out of the box, but it's slightly better. It seems to handle mixed lighting better... Cool! But to me, it's not Alex that's a competition, it's the epic, which is pretty much, the same camera. That's my point. Scarlet dragon or EPIC? It's more like, do you want a camera with a cooler name, or one that is rock solid that shoots HFR? I'm not saying the dragon sensor isn't amazing, I'm just saying that it's not much more amazing than the already amazing, MX.
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I agree Matthew. Dragon is obviously an improvement, but I just don't see it as 9500.00 improvement. When you properly expose the mx it's real tuff to tell the difference. The great problem red has invented for themselves is that the cameras are just damn good. I rarely can tell my scarlet apart from he epic when we rent epics. I've had epic scarlet and redone together and just couldn't see the difference unless I really pixel peeped. Any red in your hand is gonna be a great cinematic investment. That being said I think I'm going to hold tight to my scarlet x and see what the next generation is
 
Before seeing deliver us from evil this weekend, I got to see gone girl and expendables 3 trailers back to back. Even against dragon, epic mx is always going to be a worthy camera.
 
Just saying they both looked really really good.
 
Expendables is gonna be amazing just because it has every action hero from 80-00's. Happy they went RED this time. A great way to send off the MX sensor.
 
I decided to go with the Epic, I feel that I can handle post with ease and I will still be able to get truly wonderful images out of it.
 
Red Scarlet to Epic or Epic Dragon

Red Scarlet to Epic or Epic Dragon

I'm in an unfortunate situation. I need both the speed and the sensor. As great as they are at Red Pinewood, I've been told it's going to be a long wait..... ARRRRRRRR
 
Why do you need the sensor and high speed this fast? Can't you rent one if a project demands it? But go with an Epic-MX and shoot high speed, just be careful with the clipping and do some careful grading and you will get close to Dragon.
 
Well i was in the same boat. Could not decide beetween the scarlet dragon or epic mx. I went with the epic. I am an action sports filmer and need high frame rates. Personaly if i did not shoot high frame rates for almost every project i would have gone scarlet. It does not make sense to pay for featers you rarly use. If you see yourself shooting high fps more than 50% of the time. go for the epic. But if not.... get that beutiful scarlet dragon sensor.
 
If you ever plan to rent your camera I highly recommend going Epic. I missed out on so many rentals with my old Scarlet due to too high of compression, too low of framerate or less resolution that I could have bought an epic before I finally yielded to the obvious and upgraded. Just this last weekend I had a client who needed 60p at lower compression rates than Scarlet Dragon offered. Sure the Dragon looks better but if you just can't shoot the high framerate stuff you need then it doesn't matter how good the image is.
 
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