Here's an alternative...

[Zach Nelson]

Red gives us a nice sneak peak at what's going on behind the curtain. The alternative is they stop doing that.

Personally, I'd rather get preliminary specs a year ahead of production because it turns me on - the flip side is - chill out and expect the specs to change, improve, get figured-out along the way.

Did we learn nothing from the development timeline of the Red One? Every month or so a new feature or two was released and everyone got excited. So the Scarlet isn't 100% of what you wanted to hear or had hoped for - it's still 12 months away.

Put that into perspective - think about where Red is today and where it was 24 months ago. Now take 50% of that time (12) months and that's how much more mature the Scarlet will become. Not to mention it's being built on top of Red One's shoulders, not from scratch.

Sure, I want interchangeable lenses and 4-channel audio and chances are we'll get them, if not so what - don't buy the camera.

With all of this "exclusive" behind the curtain access comes the ability to second guess and drive the Red team nuts in the process. The alternative is we don't find out until something is production-ready - and what fun is that?

[dieseljunkie]

Agreed.

I wonder, judging reactions, how on earth are they going to fulfill demand? It would not surprise me if 25.000 units are ordered in the first month. Would not surprise me if they are going to outsource this one.

[Zach Nelson]

Doesn't bother me .. I don't wonder how they'll recruit engineers and developers or if they'll need to expand into new office space because they're growing too fast. Build in-house or farm it out - in the end the cameras will live and I'm sure as demand increases/decreases business and production procedures will change to adapt.

[Jonathan Wheeler]

Agreed.

I wonder, judging reactions, how on earth are they going to fulfill demand? It would not surprise me if 25.000 units are ordered in the first month. Would not surprise me if they are going to outsource this one.

It feels to me like they may be WAY ahead of where they are telling us, but are being very modest in their delivery time estimates, learning from their experience with One. Like they are going to underpromise and over deliver, instead of leaving a bunch of people pissed about bad delivery estimates last time.

[Bryan Bishop]

Jim also posted earlier that they weren't going to start shipping Scarlet until they had enough Scarlets to meet demand; I bet several months of our wait is going to be strictly inventory stockpiling time.

Red knows the perception the Red One time slippage gave, and I doubt they will make the mistake again -- especially not with this product.

[Zach Nelson]

sheeesh ... in the past 4 hours alone there have been a ton of new posts about features, speculation, requests, etc all that stuff.

Red can't monitor every thread on here and they certainly can't make everyone happy. I propose holding off until July - August before posting things like that because honestly it's not doing anyone any good. If you post something like "Hey Jim - make sure it does XYZ" it's not going to be addressed and you'll probably feel blown-off but honestly what do you expect? They have cameras to build and a business to run - "everything in time".. as they say "CHILL" please ...

I'm sure we'll have an opportunity to voice our opinions in a better forum than the message boards later this year - a more-structured way of polling the user base so Red can gather useful feedback instead of trolling through hundreds (thousands?) of posts from everyone.