Nikon to buy 100% of RED

I didn't listen to the interview but it sounds like the lawsuit brought two odd ducks together. Nikon had lot of cash in the bank and saw this is an opportunity to buy their way into into the cinema world to sell it's lenses. RED wasn't financially well and more than happy to cash in it's bags.

Nikon is the old guy who buys himself a young trophy wife and they lived happily ever after... not
 
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I don't have a Z-mount camera, but I remember people's initial reaction being it's over sized for full frame, but too small for medium format.
So I wonder if Nikon will release a new lens mount, medium format lenses, along with a medium format stills camera. They could put the optics in cine housings with an LPL mount for their cinema range, like the V-Raptor XL, or Blackmagic's forthcoming 65mm camera.
 
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And it was announced today that RED's design chief has resigned.

I don't own any RED or Nikon gear, but it will be interesting to see how all of this shakes out over the coming weeks, months and years. I think most of the adults in the room can agree that RED's marketing, and then subsequently a large part of their user base, is part of what alienated them from the more mainstream users and acceptance. Everyone outside of RED hates them for the BS compressed RAW patent, but they broke down doors in the industry, and it's hard to say exactly how much farther and faster they pushed it to, than it would have otherwise been at this point "naturally" without their presence. But no doubt, we are at a different place on the map than if they hadn't have come along. And of course, Nikon knows how to make a lens and has the manufacturing capabilities to efficiently and economically build things at large scale.
 
you've come full circle JL, back on DVXuser posting with the little people...life flies by, feels like it all started just yesterday in the 2000s
 
Me 30 seconds ago: "a new post on dvxuser! What insightful commentary will I stumble upon this time?"
 
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