WHOLE BUNCH OF RED SCARLETS GOING CHEAP

[andy lee]

RED are selling a whole bunch of Scarlets cheap .......I think these may have got used on the new Total Recall movie to do a ' time slice/ bullet time' shot

this is from Red User website:


[b][u][i]I can't tell you much about it.. but we just did a massive project with a need for a pretty special 3 second shot, so they rented a whole truckload of Scarlets from us ... more Scarlets than most people have seen in their lifetime.

None of them had more than a minute of record time. We can't sell them as new.. and the rental was good.. so we are giving you guys a one time break on these as " Battle Tested " Scarlets. [/i]

[i]$7100 instead of the regular $11,900. Scarlet Brain, Side SSD and Canon Mount. And because I know someone will ask, you can't swap the mount to a Nikon or PL for this deal. [/i]

[i]They come with the standard Battle Tested 90 day warranty.. but we will open up RED ARMOR just on these since we were with them 100% of the time that they were out of the box and are as close to brand new as you can get. [/i] [/u]

[url="http://www.red.com/store/products/scarlet-x-side-ssd-lens-mount-bt"]http://www.red.com/s....-lens-mount-bt[/url]

Tell all your friends :)[/b]

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[FilmMan]

Noticed yesterday and called Red. Almost pulled the trigger. Sales guy was eager (he was a seasoned sales guy) and informative. Still need batteries, monitor, storage, etc.

[nigelbb]

This must piss off all current Scarlet owners who just saw the residual value of their cameras drop $2-3K

[jgharding]

Camera depreciation is getting crazy. Modular sensors all round I say, otherwise we're gonna fill the world with non-recyclable junk and there'll be nothing left to film :0

[Germy1979]

Wall-E 2..

(Explosion)

This time.... He's taking out the trash....

[Germy1979]

Why does it look like another matrix movie?

[richg101]

[quote name='jgharding' timestamp='1350554599' post='19891']
Camera depreciation is getting crazy. Modular sensors all round I say, otherwise we're gonna fill the world with non-recyclable junk and there'll be nothing left to film :0
[/quote]

it'll die soon. All the kids and hangers on will get bored once they get raw and it cant make their films any more viable as a money making enterprise. I remember seeing more good stuff from Canon xl1 users before the dslr become the first choice. nowadays I swear these guys buy their camera to do lens tests, moire and dynamic range tests. They never make anything with them!

[Julian]

It's called a hobby ;)

[richg101]

[quote name='Julian' timestamp='1350674534' post='20003']
It's called a hobby ;)
[/quote]

A hobby is like a kid making and painting warhammer 40k models, tamiya 1/10th scale car racing, fishing, playing computer games, a guy taking a camera out and taking photos of wildlife. sculpting out of clay, birdwatching.

sitting on the internet, dreaming and worse, - spending thousands on cameras that they will never use is not a hobby, it's a consumer electronics enthusiast who is deluded into thinking that a camera with no moire, raw output, and 4k will make their consuming into more than just blind consumption. If all these guys were doing it for market research i wouldn't have an issue with it. But it's just consumers pretending to be more than what they are. Consumers fill their world with 'stuff' to block out the empty space where a hobby should be.

[Julian]

And what are we doing here on EOSHD exactly? 95% of the time is spend talking about gear, raw, 4k, whatever. The Screening Room isn't really the most active part of the forum. Anything wrong with that? No. Most of us are guys, there's a bit of a technology freak in everyone of us. I'm not saying people here don't shoot stuff. But while we dream about the BMC and a Sony NEX-hack the girls are probably off shooting something, cause they don't have a clue about raw or whatever and they actually don't give a f*ck.

Anyway, it's good for the economy ;) let people drool over gear, buy it, sell it and move onto the next camera they rarely use. I have a lot of stuff that I rarely use, and I do enjoy collecting, buying and selling it, so yes, it's a hobby.

I don't see why this 'trend' would ever change. Technology will always be advancing. There will always be something new, something better, something bigger... And there will be people buying it just for the sake of that. If they are happy with it, what is the problem?