Fred,
I'm not saying other cameras are not innovative or good, because we've come from handicams and 100 lb. engs, to finally film killing magic.
I just think RED with all their quirks has hit a sweet spot in the market like nobody else has addressed.
Sure with RAW there is another step to go through, same with raw stills, but it offers more back in safety and a few more options.
The Scarlet is the camera I don't understand as it's essentially an Epic with a few less features and 1/4 the price.
Bern,
As far as FPS, I'd like 120 fps with the full frame, (though I've never used our RED one's past 29.97) but heck I'd also like 1000 fps.
Still for the price if it turns out to be reliable it's well worth it.
I'm always fascinated by brand loyalty though. Traditional film guys scream Arri, it seems like the Indie guys has the hots for the Canon 300 and all of that is fine and it's their business what they use.
The Arri I understand more than the Canon because at least the Arri is more familiar territory for traditional film crossover.
The Canon confuses us, because you must pick one mount and stick with it, and why didn't Canon offer autofocus. Canon lenses on the RED will autofocus.
Canon started with a clean sheet so I would have thought the 300 would have been a RED/Arri/5d2/5d3/Nikon Killer but in ways it's more 16mm camera than full fledge production camera.
At least that's how I would position it.
All the RED's are not perfect, but very useable is a lot of situations and for a hand held camera it's going to be a gas.
What I look forward to is shooting 5k 12fps sequences as for some personal and commercial work, I love the cut frame look.
Anyway, I'll know more about the camera very soon and if it works out we'll probably order one more for backup.
Morgan, I don't know about 2k or 1k. I don't know if we'll ever use it though for you when we test it out I'll try it to see.
As far as Mr. Bloom, he has a different business model than we do and I'm not being a critic, but I think his experience with the Epic kind of turned him off on RED, but reading between the lines, it appears that some of his Epic experience was a little buyers remorse, though once again I do not know Mr. Bloom.
IMO
BC