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Tim Daust said:
Chris Thanks for your post.

I received my Scarlet-W on June 4th. Ive been so grateful and humbled to finally have it in my hands and been overwhelmed by the immense family atmosphere I have just become part of.

Back before I was first able to rent one here in Atlanta I was really obsessed with them. The REDONE was like a unicorn from the moment I heard Steven Soderbergh was shooting CHE & Girlfriend Experience on it. Ive always been obsessed with film and specifically the process of achieving the same aesthetic digitally. The achievement of the REDONE was amazing on so many levels and fast forward to present day and we have Helium 8k and VV 8k on the horizon (basically here for Helium lol) Having previously owned almost every "Prosumer" Sony camera they put out through the 2000s I am sick of them, even though S35 CineAlta was awesome. From my first FX1 to EX3 and then downgraded to an EX1 then went to F3 and most recently the FS7. I also owned a 5D when they first one came out and upgraded to the MII and then MIII. I had so many cameras from 1999-2016 its hard to keep up now. Hands down my Scarlet-W is my favorite thus far.

I have been renting RED cameras since 2010. Before that it was just not very easy to get your hands on one in Atlanta, especially for any less than $1500-2000 a day. 100% of the time I tried to shoot on RED but the budgets I was working with made it next to impossible. You see over the past 6 years, anytime my client couldn't afford to shoot on RED, very often I took the money I was getting for my rate and put it directly towards renting a RED. I did this to "buy" in to the ability to make my work stand out whenever I could. Over 6 years Ive definitely rented enough REDs to have purchased 1-2 Epic Dragons by now. The part that has really become humbling is the ability to use the camera now whenever I want. The first 3 days were the best. I remember taking the camera on a few walks with me just filming nature. Something I was never able to do renting the camera for 1-5 days and obviously never using it outside of the camera prep + shoot days. Now having the ability to take the camera wherever/whenever I want is a blessing. I had only Blackshaded a Dragon 1 time prior to owning one. Knowledge is power yes but experience out trumps it 10 folds. Now I have the camera and just like every other piece of technology I own, I will master it. No day rate will stop me.

IF it wasn't enough to have the camera itself in my hands, the next biggest unexpected part of this journey has been the Family/Community. Its really incredible to think that we not only have the eyes and ears of the big guys at RED here, but we also have an entire community of professionals who make a lot of the content we all enjoy here on the forums too. Rob Anderson sold me some used batteries and wouldn't you know it, he had just DPd a Beatles music video that I REALLY loved for "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Thank you to everyone who have been a part of my experience with RED before and after now owning one.

the negative comments I see on social media regarding having to wait is just overwhelming. RED made a decision to make these cameras affordable. It wasn't because sales stopped. Lets hope these negative comments/attitudes don't make them regret that decision. I for one am grateful beyond words.
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Great contribution to this thread Tim...exactly why I started it...to hear these types of stories. Love it!

Oh and congrats on your Scarlet-W and finally owning a RED. Welcome to the family!
 
Samir Patel said:
Agreed to all. And community is a BIG one. Met some amazing people on this journey online and eventually in person!
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yea, this place is my second family...love you all to pieces...well...most of you anyways. :party:
 
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