Zack CC
Well-known member
I guess I don't comment much, but I felt the need to chime in here for some reason. Slogging through the 100+ page rollercoaster got me very excited, but reading some of the commentary left me with a bitter aftertaste. You've got me aching to upgrade no doubt- sadly I may have to sit this one out, yet again, but that is in no way on RED.
Again, though is the keyword here. Another generous upgrade chance I never imagined. Its not for lack of wanting, either. Passing it up is really hard, and for a multitude of reasons- truthfully, I probably still haven't grown enough as a shooter yet to have fully reached the limitations of my "deal-of-a-lifetime" Scarlet-X. I also never really took advantage of renting it out to people because it was my baby! But, regardless of my possibly poor business decisions, the fact that I could have an upgrade path today is mind-boggling, and I'm driving my friends and family crazy as all I can talk about the past few days is doing the financial math to make it possible! XD
Maybe its also because I'm back to working for a vendor again, but I can't believe the amount of flak you guys have caught for this. You guys have totally exceeded your promise to me, for sure. That "deal-of-a-lifetime" truly was that, its been proved over and over. But even if someone didn't get their camera on any special kind of deal, the fact that RED as a vendor is responsive enough and put the effort in to create an entirely new product to satisfy an additional intermediate user tier and to alleviate the backlog on an extremely popular product is testament to how much you guys care about this foolish business.
Between the deals and the financing and the products, you appear to be breaking yourselves incrementing to eliminate almost all barriers to your customers having the ability to move forward. Even if someone has had a terrible year, or 4, and they bought a RED camera and worked it, their old inventory can now be upgraded while retaining a lot of value from their initial investment. Short of not renting their camera out, like I did, RED has taken the hit in their ledgers to make this possible for all of those who were willing to make the initial jump. As an independent business owner, its really hard for me to look at this any other way: you guys do a lot for your customers. Most of that would be unimaginable at another company.
Anyway. You guys are the best kind of insane, just wanted to say thanks for the second (third?) additional opportunity, only sorry I haven't done enough on my end to be able to take it.
(I'm most excited about the new color science approach that has been mentioned. Hopefully that has at least some tiny trickle down benefit for those of us still on MX... but I'm not holding my breath.)
Please stay crazy out there. Can't wait to shoot with one, even if its not ultimately mine!
Again, though is the keyword here. Another generous upgrade chance I never imagined. Its not for lack of wanting, either. Passing it up is really hard, and for a multitude of reasons- truthfully, I probably still haven't grown enough as a shooter yet to have fully reached the limitations of my "deal-of-a-lifetime" Scarlet-X. I also never really took advantage of renting it out to people because it was my baby! But, regardless of my possibly poor business decisions, the fact that I could have an upgrade path today is mind-boggling, and I'm driving my friends and family crazy as all I can talk about the past few days is doing the financial math to make it possible! XD
Maybe its also because I'm back to working for a vendor again, but I can't believe the amount of flak you guys have caught for this. You guys have totally exceeded your promise to me, for sure. That "deal-of-a-lifetime" truly was that, its been proved over and over. But even if someone didn't get their camera on any special kind of deal, the fact that RED as a vendor is responsive enough and put the effort in to create an entirely new product to satisfy an additional intermediate user tier and to alleviate the backlog on an extremely popular product is testament to how much you guys care about this foolish business.
Between the deals and the financing and the products, you appear to be breaking yourselves incrementing to eliminate almost all barriers to your customers having the ability to move forward. Even if someone has had a terrible year, or 4, and they bought a RED camera and worked it, their old inventory can now be upgraded while retaining a lot of value from their initial investment. Short of not renting their camera out, like I did, RED has taken the hit in their ledgers to make this possible for all of those who were willing to make the initial jump. As an independent business owner, its really hard for me to look at this any other way: you guys do a lot for your customers. Most of that would be unimaginable at another company.
Anyway. You guys are the best kind of insane, just wanted to say thanks for the second (third?) additional opportunity, only sorry I haven't done enough on my end to be able to take it.
(I'm most excited about the new color science approach that has been mentioned. Hopefully that has at least some tiny trickle down benefit for those of us still on MX... but I'm not holding my breath.)
Please stay crazy out there. Can't wait to shoot with one, even if its not ultimately mine!
