Nikon to buy 100% of RED

Isn't Nikon the company that fought RED's patent for compressed internal raw video recording and got some sort of strange 'settlement' where RED agreed they could use it or something like that?
 
They could have had it all. If they’d just pushed a little harder with the video mode of the D90 back in 2008 (shutter speed control and a nicer codec), or if they’d brought out an updated version to compete with the Canon 5D mark ii.

I waited and waited. And they had no lineage in pro video which was of course a downside but the upside was no high end models to protect.
 
Red brings to Nikon, a brand, some high end market penetration and RF mount. Did Canon just get out maneuvered? Is Blackmagic a target for Panasonic?
 
RED dropped their case against RED didn’t they? I wonder if this is why?

Did Nikon just buy RED for the patents?
 
Phil Holland is saying the usual things that are said in an acquisition, company continues as an autonomous wholly owned subsidiary, that Nikon will keep the employees and engineers. If you've been through a few of these, they always say that, 9 months to a year later, the ax falls on everything. Intellectual property aside, does anyone think Nikon needs Red's technical crew or manufacturing?
 
The one truth, is unlike U.S. companies as DLD would note, operate cooperatively as cartels. This might not rile as many feathers at Canon as first thought.
 
This should bode well for autofocus capabilities on RED cameras, although I would expect them to change to Nikon Z mount
 
As a long time nikkon..er I became very aware that money spent on nikkor AF glass could not have a long form 'proper video' camera hung on it.

Result was I ended up with 70-200 both canon (for my C200) and 70-200 Nikon for my D850

24-70 for my canon and another 24-105 for my stills nikon.

The insanity of this became clear to me at some point in covid.

At that point I decided nikon was 'dead' as with no long form video camera to hang the glass off the system could not move across stills and video.

I sold all my nikon and got the canon R6 which has become my stills camera.

I bought and sold a Z6.. it was fine but no sister video camera.

Im not a nikon hater as is fashionable on isntagroon

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So with no long form video camera.. nikon is/was dead.

This seems a super smart move to me because a zmount red and some nikons makes for a fantastic system.

raw to Nikon. decent AF to Red.. and you have some winning kit.

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Im not so happy about the canon change now!
 
Tom Roper said:
The one truth, is unlike U.S. companies as DLD would note, operate cooperatively as cartels. This might not rile as many feathers at Canon as first thought.
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I immediately thought of DLD. Under his paradigm, it would seem that this Nikon acquisition actually puts Nikon more on an equal footing with Sony and Canon. Also, Japanese companies now control most of the midrange video camera brands. It makes sense.
 
Wowww

DLD, you son of a gun, you called it 8 years ago and I pushed back hard, but you saw the possibility.

P.S. The one thing to note though is that if the cartel world does exist (which many of us think they do), it's not like Sony or Canon or Panasonic didn't know about this and that it was coming.

For some related matters to it, they definitely would approve this.
 
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Nikon was an innovator, it's just that their 1st iterations weren't refined enough to be usable, and they didn't add features with firmware updates.

Nikon started the DSLR video revolution in 2008 with the D90 recording 720P, followed by constant video auto focus with the D7000 in 2010, followed by some of the most detailed DSLR video of the era with the D5300 in 2013.

A Z9 in a camcorder or cinema camera body would be really cool.

If Nikon releases a video/cinema camera, I hope they release an F-mount adapter with a focus motor for D-series lenses.

We should comprise a list of video features for Nikon to add to their future video/cinema.
 
Cameras have pretty much everything these days so the list is really just...everything. lol

Per usual, strengths and weaknesses will exist but I expect great things to come from this for Nikon.
 
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