[Kevin Stanley]

This is a great thread. I used to work for Red and think the Scarlet will be a great addition to this comparison, although don’t be fooled by the 3K price tag, you will need a few 300x CF cards and they are $200 a piece for 8GB, which should give you about 8 minutes (Speculative) of record time. Add some Red accessories and a flash drive and you are easily into the sony/pana price range. Rolling shutter will be a factor here, you don’t want to shoot muzzle flashes or fireworks with the Red One or half the screen will be black. I think the Scarlet will win here because of resolution and RAW image acquisition, which I really appreciate.. it is truly amazing in terms of flexibility. I can’t wait to see what happens in mid 09′ when the thing finally hits the streets.

My post is totally off topic I know, so my question in regards to this post is… do you need a kona card or some other 3rd party capture product to get the 4:2:2 subsampling out of the Sony since it only comes from HD-SDI? It would be much cooler IMO if you could sacrifice record time to get 4:2:2 for key work on the native SxS.

In comparison to the HVX the larger sensor and native 1080 means lots to me as it gives you more room for post tricks and HD is definitely being distributed and pushing SD out the door quickly. The HVX is going to get phased out by true 1080p + full digital cams but I don’t think the EX1 is the camera that will send it to pasture. Scarlet could be a different story, hopefully other manufactures will follow RED’s lead, it’s about time pro gear became accessible by indies.