RED Scarlet by the end of the year?

[ZephyrStar]

FUCK YES. There are prices. Cheaper than many prosumer HD cams, and will do 2K.

http://www.red.com/

[Niotex]

Ohh fukyes.. I'd love some more info on the Scarlet S35 though.

[NeoQuixotic]

Well, even if the body is cheap you'll be spending quite of bit on accessories and better lenses. I discovered this after buying a 7D for video purposes. I bought it because it was cheap, but to actually make it easy and useful for video I'd have to spend a lot more. You've got hand held rigs, follow focus, matte box, mics, external sound recorders, lenses, etc. Unless you shoot on them often, renting might be more ideal. I got to shoot with the Red One MX and loved the image it produced. But the work flow can be a bit of a pain because of having to either have a super high end machine or sit and convert the footage to ProRes, Cineform, or whatever you want to edit with. The real mess comes when you want to edit with the raw files for maximum quality and control over the image. But then again you are buying Red because you want quality results for a affordable price. Don't get me wrong, I'm really excited for the Scarlet. I'd love to see a sub $10k camera have to option to shoot ProRes/Cineform natively to allow for shoot and drag to timeline immediate, full quality editing. Arri's Alexa looks awesome, but it starts at like $60k so that's a no go. I mean you could always buy something like a Sony EX1R and an AJA Ki Pro to get a nice 1/2" sensor and capture ProRes 422 via HD-SDI. But that is still like $10k for just those 2 and the setup is a bit bulky.

Anyways, I hope the Scarlet is as awesome as they've been saying and Red/other companies make editing with them easier. I'm also been following rumors of Canon releasing a proper large sensor camera after everyone went crazy with the 5D MKII and 7D. So far the DSLR sized sensor cameras from Panasonic and Sony just seem meh.

[ZephyrStar]

Yeah for sure. I would probably be looking at the fixed lens package if I were to buy a Scarlet, either that or just the bare minimum with the micro lens version, so brain, CF reader, one lens to get started, and a monitor. Still, as much as I'm jazzed about these large sensor cams, I honestly think I'll end up getting a Panny HMC150. Maybe if I had a huge budget and was shooting a feature I would go Red, but then again, I could also save myself a lot of cash and just buy a 35mm adapter for the HMC and spend time lighting things correctly.

(Also Mitch: according to the new stuff on Reduser, the S35 is essentially a smaller brain to the Epic. So, you could buy an S35 brain, and all the accessories for it, then later if you wanted to move up, all you'd have to replace would be the brain to an Epic brain! :O)