The big choice: Epic S35 or FF35...

[Jeff Kilgroe]

The $500 tune-up with ownership transfer has been in place for a while, close to the beginning of the R1's first shipping. Originally I thought it included the 90-day warranty, but it seems that now costs extra and is optional. Would like clarification on that.

IMO, if I were buying a second-hand RED, especially if it's from someone I don't really know, I would love to send it in for a check-up and to get all the ownership details transferred so I can continue to get support and upgrades for it. $500 for a complete check-up doesn't sound like a bad deal to me. Would like it a lot better if the warranty is included... $700 for a 90-day warranty is too steep, IMO. Insurance deductable to replace the camera with a new one is $1K with my current policy. :whistling:

 

[Stephen Williams]

Jim has a track record of being more than fair, wouldn't you agree?

Hi Tom,

I never had any problems with Jim or his companies support to date.

Stephen

 

[Stephen Pruitt]

Back to my "crucial question":

Does anyone have any conjecture on what the visual difference between REDCodes 42 and 225 will be like? As noted, I think that the data storage for a feature in 225 will be HUGE, HUGE, HUGE. We used 5TB for our first feature using REDCode 32. Are we talking like 50TB for a feature with REDCode 225?

So, again, are we really likely to be able to see the difference between these two codecs? If not, I'll go Scarlet all the way.

Stephen

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

At this point, the 42, 225, 500 numbers are just arbitrary quality references. So we can speculate until the cows come home on that one. Actually some of us already have, look around. Keep in mind that the formats mentioned are what the camera can record *up to* and it may be some time before anyone can actually record something like REDCODE 225 to onboard media. We may spend the first year or so recording to REDCODE 100 just to make another arbitrary reference.