Weapon 8k from red store

[Lee Kelly]

What do we think the chances are of being able to just buy the 8k weapon from the store when its all released? I ask because I seem to recall a friend of mine buying a Dragon before I was able to upgrade. I didnt believe him at first but sure enough, he just paid for his Dragon from the online store while I was still waiting for my upgrade email.
I was not able to lay down the deposit during NAB last year and I am wondering if that means I will never get to 8k weapon or if it will just mean I am 2weeks later than all the deposit payers?

 

[Phil Holland]

What do we think the chances are of being able to just buy the 8k weapon from the store when its all released? I ask because I seem to recall a friend of mine buying a Dragon before I was able to upgrade. I didnt believe him at first but sure enough, he just paid for his Dragon from the online store while I was still waiting for my upgrade email.
I was not able to lay down the deposit during NAB last year and I am wondering if that means I will never get to 8k weapon or if it will just mean I am 2weeks later than all the deposit payers?

This is a bit different than going through the queue of Epic upgrades from what I can see. I would say you have a while. There's a host of upgraders and these will be going out in small batches for a bit until things settle. Probably not something to expect until next year even.

 

[Lee Kelly]

Thanks Phil,

I just know, once people start shooting 8k all over town, and the hype is lived up to, just like we saw with 'Forged' youre either part of that movement or youre left behind. I am pretty well committed to the whole deal but at the time of deposits etc I had other things to worry about. Good to know that Red will likely still release their 8k sensor to new customers but the initial vibe was it would only be available to the people who laid down cold hard during NAB.
Is there much 8k tests out there in vimeo/youtube world to check out?
Someone (hint hint) needs to get busy on some various lens test with one of those bad boys!!! Different glass is going to perform differently and I am especially interested in some medium format results. Phils Otis results looked fucked up (in a good way!) Maybe for now, those are more than enough...

 

[Elsie N]

What do we think the chances are of being able to just buy the 8k weapon from the store when its all released? I ask because I seem to recall a friend of mine buying a Dragon before I was able to upgrade. I didnt believe him at first but sure enough, he just paid for his Dragon from the online store while I was still waiting for my upgrade email.
I was not able to lay down the deposit during NAB last year and I am wondering if that means I will never get to 8k weapon or if it will just mean I am 2weeks later than all the deposit payers?

Lee, Jarred stated at one time that eventually they should reach a success rate of 30% per batch of 8k sensors. Subsequent to that statement he came back and told us we would have a long, long, long wait before getting our sensors. Apparently it turns out that reaching that hoped for success rate was not happening exponentially, and perhaps not in an unbroken linear path as well.

But for you, best case scenario would be a breakthrough in both fabrication and sensor tuning to reach that 30% success rate. When that happens the 8k sensor will become an off-the-shelf item, I suspect.

 

[Stacey Spears]

Someone (hint hint) needs to get busy on some various lens test with one of those bad boys!!!

Phil has already been doing 8k lens tests and he posted the results here on RU. I am too lazy this AM to find them. I am sure someone will post a link. I would say just search for threads started by Phil, but he has created so many with so much data that is not as easy as it sounds.

 

[Stacey Spears]

It was easy enough to find. Here is Phil's lens coverage test(s) for the 8k sensor.