The amount of fear mongering and disinformation in this thread is pretty astounding.

We have Red #404. We got it February, and have shot quite a lot with it. I’m with the camera virtually every time it’s used.

I’ve never seen the camera overheat.

I’ve never seen a Red Drive drop a frame, even in fairly jarring handheld [...]

The Pro Applications Update 2008-004 (run Software Update) and the Red Final Cut Studio 2 Installer provide access to two new major features.

The first is rewrapping R3D data into QuickTime files that Final Cut can work with natively, though Final Cut’s Log & Transfer interface. There’s some debate about this, but as far as I [...]

Nearly two years ago, I made the following post on RedUser:

Ten years from now it’ll probably be possible to do something significantly better than the RED ONE (higher resolution, higher frame rates, HDR), with a body the size of a present day digital SLR, capturing to commodity storage (hours of footage on the [...]

I assume everyone who reads this blog as seen this by now.

I really love the modular concept here. Red is definitely headed in the right direction in that respect. As for the large number of “brain” options, I was initially concerned, but having thought it through, I think I might have figured it out.

I’ll leave [...]

Rian Johnson has posted a rebuttal to our previous round of responses. I’d like to go through some of what he says there.

In my response to his original article, I pointed out that the necessity of optical low-pass filtering means that a native 1080p camera isn’t going to resolve a full 1080 horizontal lines of [...]