No posts about the new Red Scarlet DSMC?

[robertbanks]

<p>Maybe the 2year+ wait and $10k+ price tag has dampened people's excitement? But the Red Scarlet is now available to order.</p>

<p>I must admit that I don't really understand all the (cinematagraphic?) terminology or Red-specific jargon in the spartan information that is available, but the 18 stop dynamic range caught my eye.</p>

<p>Anyone know of any reviews from a still photographer's perspective? If I understand correctly, Red seem to be implying that you would capture in movie mode and then select the still shots from playback?</p>

<p>What I would like to know about, for a start, is ISO performance, AF focus tracking (its compatible with Canon and Nikon lenses apparently, but no idea how they perform) and fps in stills mode...</p>

[Karim Ghantous]

Firstly, it's now one of my favourite

cameras. I'd have it over my D700, but

only if I had to choose. Here is what

you wanted to know:

 

 

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http://www.red.com/products/scarlet

 

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Basically it's a 4K movie camera up to

30fps. HDRx, which gives you 18

stops, halves that frame rate. But it's

native latitude is very good in the first

place. Stills can be 5K at up to 12fps.

 

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No movie camera at that price can do

what Scarlet does. If you want 5K at

120fps (half that with HDRx) then buy

an EPIC at 3x the price.

 

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It does its job in silence as it has no

moving shutter components. The

disadvantage is that it has no phase-

detection AF. So my D700 has an

advantage there.

 

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Base ISO is apparently 800 but I have

forgotten exactly. It does well at high

sensitivities.

 

 

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Sony and Canon have had years to

answer the RED ONE. They haven't

even caught up to that, let alone the

EPIC.

 

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Make no mistake, shooting in 4K pays

off in the long run, even if you're

distributing in HD for now.

 

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Rant over :-)

[robertbanks]

<p>Thanks for the info Karim. I had to look up what 5K and 4k refer too (wikipedia doesn't even have 5K defined).<br>

Shame there is no AF: that's a deal breaker for me, and I would have prefered something closer to 18mpx over 14mpx...still waiting for the D4...</p>

[waltflanagan]

<p>The primary market for the camera is Hollywood movies. On a movie set there is a dedicated person known as the focus puller who puts tape marks down where the actors will be and has preset marks on the lens focus ring for where to go and when. They don't even focus by looking through the viewfinder, just by the presets and where the actors are. There is no need for autofocus on a Hollywood set because everything is planned so precisely.</p>

[scott_ferris]

<p>I was playing with one last week, but I know nothing about it. It was on a Gates stand at DEMA in Orlando.</p>

<p>The C300 from Canon certainly looks like a decent movie style camera but I don't know and care even less.</p>