This is all old news, not sure why it’s being bumped. I guess envy? Boredom? Isn’t there already enough online vitriol against RED? The Internet thrives on this BS, while in the real world, actual DPs, many of the world’s most talented, are gladly shooting with REDs and winning awards for photography. This crap makes me think of the 68 year-old man who, each morning at 7:15, pisses on the gravestone of a woman he was briefly married to back in the 70s. Red will crush Nikon like a bug.
We should tax the bejesus out of billionaires like Grant Petty. That’s not just me speaking - that’s the opinion of the overwhelming majority of Americans, right, left and center. It’s only in the tiny echo chambers in the recesses of the internet where you find people actually defending the rich and powerful and trying to justify an enormous wealth disparity based on deregulation, price gouging, corruption and union busting, where veterans who fought for the country have to struggle to get health care and housing and where medicine costs ten times more than in any other nation on earth.
In fact, Jannard is a fine person who seldom granted interviews, while Grant Petty loves to boast about his wealth to interviewers. You’re also sadly mistaken about ‘hosing’ customers: I’ve already shown how RED’s accessories are no more expensive than ARRI’s or Sony’s and are often far cheaper! Anyhow, no one’s forcing you to purchase Red-branded accessories. The batteries, media and card reader (in fact, everything you need to begin shooting) are all available from third-party vendors. If you want to talk about gouging, let’s start with Sony’s 640GB CFexpress Type A TOUGH Memory Card, which runs $1,250.00! LOL All DSMC3 bodies: the V-Raptor, Komodo and V-Raptor XL all cost exactly what was stated and were shipped in as timely a manner as possible, given the circumstances. You’re rehashing old news.
Your math is a wee bit off: first of all, you neglect to mention the tens of thousands of dollars just for media and batteries required for the Alexa 35. And everything else required to make the camera production ready. But in real life, few will ever actually own one of the several thousand Alexa 35s produced - they’re going to rental houses.
You’re distorting facts to fit into a grotesque, Boschian version of reality. RED cameras are priced exactly as promised, delivered in a timely manner given the circumstances and no one is being suckered into anything. Weird how you keep using words like suckered, hyped and hosed, which scream BMD bias syndrome.