@driftwood Did you pay 10K (before 31st December offer) or 14k for the kit ?

@driftwood Be sure to show us some awesome footage!

Now, I know the RED vs Canon discussion ended on the first page, but I think it should be pointed out that the sensor on the C300 is in fact 4K.
It makes use of the full resolution to create a 1080p image with no pixel interpolation.

Theoretically, you could debayer the footage and get 4K.
Or did I get everything ass-backwards?

But it's not used for interpolation like it would be traditionally.
There's enough resolution to fill a 1080p frame, where each individual pixel on all color channels recieve their own unique value.

My suggestion is that you could take that, and run it through a debayer process in post in order to get a 4K image.

@P4INKiller Canon already said they'll ship a 4K DSLR body in the next year, since many people were underwhelmed by a $20,000 1080p camera in 2012. That tells me to PASS on the C300, it's a nice camera for about 12 months, rent it if you need to, then nobody will talk about it by end of 2012 once everyone else releases 4K like Sony and ARRI will. By the way, no image seen on the demo didn't touch a lens less than $7000 lens I am aware of...

In the meanwhile, if you want 4K, buy a Red Scarlet, shoot 4K Raw, slap on some F1.2 -F1.4 Canon L Glass, upgrade the sensor if you really need to when they release the Dragon, and don't look back for a couple of years...

ref: see Philip Bloom to get an idea of similar setup, though he always uses slow-mo only available on EPIC:

http://philipbloom.net/2011/11/11/amarillo/

@alcomposer The GH2 has been my "Original Scarlet" killer for a year now. The Scarlet-X is pretty much what the Epic-S was going to be, but at lower frame rates.

BTW, I will NEVER go on a Red Scarlet-X shoot without the GH2 as B/C Cam, BTS camera or backup. That's how much I trust RED, and I bet the GH2 will look just as good at 1080p IF NOT BETTER...

Image quality is not the only thing that will separate the Scarlet-X from the GH2. It's actually very similar in a way to the Red One, but with better on-board processing and a smaller form factor. Less compression also helps improve the image, especially for VFX. REDCODE RAW is Red's advantage to many cameras in that price range. It's just so hard to beat because of the image quality and file size. Anyone looking to shoot cinema style should be thrilled with the Scarlet. Anyone who was hoping to use Scarlet for sports, fast-paced doc coverage, etc may be disappointed by the decision to move away from 2/3. I tend to think more people were happy about the way RED decided to go. If you take a step back and look at it objectively, pretty amazing that 4K just broke the sub $10K mark. I know that's not really how much it costs, but still considering Red One was $18K for the body and CF module (which was already cheap for what it did) now Red has made it even more affordable to get into 4K. Pretty amazing times if you ask me.

@mozes I have feeling that Red Scarlet 2/3 was too buggy or too poor low light performer to release to mass consumer market at this time. Telling people to "man-up" and calling Scarlet - X Professional, meant you are to pay more and expected to put up with same technical issues as other Epic users, which is seemingly still a buggy camera. Check out their forums, don't know how many Epic are in the wild, but seems very touchy at even this stage. Once they get their product and production kinks worked out over the next year, I agree they will probably go for mass market under $10K products.

Guys, please calm down.

This topic from now on is to discuss Scarlet, not to show your GH2 fanatizm or discuss RED marketing.

@disneytoy

It is, almost sure, hardware thing.
You need to find specialists on this.
About data rates, almost all modern SSD will handle rates required by Scarlet.

@disneytoy I don't know a drive yet that can't be copied sector for sector with the various pc tools out there. Even if they stick a firmware on. Just buy identical drives (Hitachi SSD I think they use) at APS-C the price ;-)

Anybody have a good solution for power?

I don't think the sidehandle and limited redvolt capacity suit my style of shooting, especially when they don't disclose minimum runtime yet. I ordered the redmote instead of the sidehandle. I'm Ideally looking for reasonably priced power I can travel with and power external monitor and prores recorder...

Any tips?

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?67129-1st-Scarlet....

After 3 years, no longer vaporware, 1st Scarlet-X customer today...

I'm ready for all those shootouts!

@Jon, No1 VK would need a Scarlet X ... :-D