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Jannard

Jannard

Red Leader
I have seen many people speculate about the price of the RED camera. None are correct. You will all need to wait until the 24th to hear what it is. I will decide the final price on the 23rd. I'm giving myself all the time possible to determine pricing based on as much information as I can gather to the 11th hour.

The only thing I suggest is that you ignore all speculation because it is just that.

We are working night and day to make a visit to our booth worth the effort. We are excited times 10 to show what we have put together. I hope to see many of you there and meet you personally.

Jim
 
Jim, can you give us an idea how the retail price of the red camera comes together (like 30% hardware, 40% production, 20% development, 10% red paint)?
 
Hmmm, nobody's suggested a $1.99 price yet, maybe THAT'S it!!! :costumed-smiley-047

Seriously, I'm so jealous right now of everybody that'll be at NAB. I look forward to checking out the RED website first thing on the 24th!
 
On Hd for Indies they were saying the RED camera would really be of interest to the people reading that blog, i.e. indies with not much money up front but with plenty of ideas.
Of course this camera would be probably worth $90,000 but anything above $20,000 is out of the reach of 90% of indies. Could this camera possibly be going for $15,000?
Then of course you have the whole editing thing, raid systems etc.
It's going to be a fascinating story to follow but will we really be involved?
 
I just think it is impressive that Jim is basically saying you will know the price at NAB. This is going to be a revolutionary tool and I can't wait for the posts from everyone attending NAB.

-Jeremy
 
TheYankee
I agree. RED is very early in development, so to be able to set a price this early takes some guts considering what could change or be learned by the development team over the next... however many months.

Hey maybe we should all throw in $100 and take a guess at the final price. Then whoever is closest gets a RED, or at least the money towards a RED. Yeah I know that's a bad idea. :)
 
With Jim's new post I got a tingle of excitement; like, will my wife allow me to get it ?

Damn it Jim ! I'm an indiependent filmmaker not a scientist!
 
Ha ha ha you guys.. its only a week away. Im sure we will all be very happy on what Jim determines to be the final price. He wouldn't be here if he knew we would be dissapointed.
 
Jarred Land said:
Ha ha ha you guys.. its only a week away. Im sure we will all be very happy on what Jim determines to be the final price. He wouldn't be here if he knew we would be dissapointed.
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Agreed!
Although, from experience, there will be THOSE who WILL be disappointed no matter what the price will be; luckily THEY don't matter much! :)
 
vidled said:
Agreed!
Although, from experience, there will be THOSE who WILL be disappointed no matter what the price will be; luckily THEY don't matter much! :)
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He could give it away and somebody would ***** that they had to pay for attachments. :violin:
 
vidled said:
Errr, what was that threshold again? Wasn't it $5000?
:)
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ha ha .. well lets hope they make it pretty enough to pass the wife test. I think if it looks cool enough, and not like a boring piece of camera, the Wife will go for it.

And tell her she looks better at 4k :)
 
vidled said:
Agreed!
Although, from experience, there will be THOSE who WILL be disappointed no matter what the price will be; luckily THEY don't matter much! :)
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What? Only 4K? What about 8K resolutions? What about future proofing? And how about 3d? :thumbsup:
 
Isaac_Brody said:
What? Only 4K? What about 8K resolutions? What about future proofing? And how about 3d? :thumbsup:
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thats what pixel shifting is for.. ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
 
Jarred Land said:
ha ha .. well lets hope they make it pretty enough to pass the wife test. I think if it looks cool enough, and not like a boring piece of camera, the Wife will go for it.

And tell her she looks better at 4k :)
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You're a GENIUS Jarred:
THAT'S WHY IT'S RED!!!! IT'S HUDSON's WIFE's FAVOURITE COLOUR!!!!
:Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)
 
John_Hudson said:
LOL!

I figure $5000.00 plus the $2000.00 I get for selling the DVX !

$7000.00 !

Yes!
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when your in Vegas John.. dont try the slot machines. :)

We all know its not going to be a 7k camera. I think the current guess most people agree on is somewhere between 20k and 50k. Any lower than that, people will be doing backflips. Any higher, and I think they loose 90% of the market here.
 
And then there's the issue of lenses too, although from the way I heard it in that podcast, RED is distancing themselves a bit from the "own lenses" issue.
And that wouldn't surprise me; I'd rather they concentrate on the cam and make a good support for exisitng lenses (B4, etc.) than to "waste" time on lenses.
Unless, of course, there is ample development capacity at Oakley.
 
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