Red Digital Cinema announces Scarlet X -- 4K resolution, $9750, Ships in 2 weeks

Re:Red Digital Cinema announces Scarlet X -- 4K resolution, ... by wmf on Thursday November 03, 2011 @11:03PM (#3194782)

In some sense the Genesis and its ilk were already disrupted by the Red One, although I question how price-sensitive this market is. Does Peter Jackson care about the difference between $4K per day and $400 per day?

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Re:Red Digital Cinema announces Scarlet X -- 4K resolution, ... by forgottenpaswrd on Friday November 04, 2011 @04:02AM (#3195304)

I think Peter Jackson care about the creative possibilities of his tools, as a creative worker he is.

In fact, Peter Jackson IS one of the main supporters of RED, making the first videos and shorts with it.

Peter Jackson will also care about having to move to strange places to rent a camera and return it, and not being able to broke it in the field if he wants.

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Re:Red Digital Cinema announces Scarlet X -- 4K resolution, ... by archangel_one on Friday November 04, 2011 @06:41AM (#3195561)

I bet Peter Jackson cared about $3600/day when he filmed Bad Taste. Or even for LOTR, that would have cost $1.5m over the trilogy, which is about 0.5% of their budget (or possibly more since they would have needed more than one camera) - so not that significant, but money that could be better spent elsewhere.

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Re:Red Digital Cinema announces Scarlet X -- 4K resolution, ... by Aqua_Geek on Friday November 04, 2011 @12:27AM (#3194934)

I think there are a number of tiers in the market.

Peter Jackson probably doesn't care about the difference in price, but there are a number of student and indie directors/producers who certainly feel the difference between $4k/day and $400/day.

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Re:Red Digital Cinema announces Scarlet X -- 4K resolution, ... by Anti-Ratfish on Thursday November 03, 2011 @11:17PM (#3194811)

Exactly. I'm sure the New Zealand taxpayer will cover the difference.

http://tvnz.co.nz/business-news/20m-rebate-hobbit-in-first-y...

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Re:Red Digital Cinema announces Scarlet X -- 4K resolution, ... by stephen_g on Friday November 04, 2011 @08:26AM (#3195763)

Well, Peter Jackson has something like 36 epics (18 3D setups) on The Hobbit so I think he'd care a little about that if they were renting (they aren't though, as far as I know).

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Re:Red Digital Cinema announces Scarlet X -- 4K resolution, ... by dcminter on Friday November 04, 2011 @05:26PM (#3197758)

He certainly seems quite enthusiastic about them in this making-of promo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apD2CFEJ0MY

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