NEW design to chew on...

[Häakon]

Wow. Best design yet fo sure. Is this completely functional? Meaning: Where is the battery?

The battery (and RED-Drive) is not attached. There are different ways to mount those as well depending on your needs. If you need ultimate lightweight portability, you could skip the RED-Drive and go with flash-based recording. It's all about modularity. :-)

[Joe Aurili]

I'm a bit unclear how the mounting holes are of use, perhaps because I have not owned pro equipment before. Are these hole sizes standard? Would I get the hardware to attach the mic and other accessories from red or a third party source?

there are mounting holes all over the place on the handle.. plus the top plate. and you can always add one of the modular universal mounting plates as well.

[Adrian T.]

More importantly, where's the coffee cup holder?

You mean where's the coffee-maker?

We just added a coffee-maker to the on-board accessory list.

Jim

[Jim Exton]

This is my favorite design of all. I always thought the handgrip kinda sucked, this new one is awesome.

[Joe Aurili]

It would be good to see a minimal useable configuration by adding the battery, view finder, and flash adapter in the most minimal way.

[Andrew Benz]

I really like this very much... just saw it now. Spartan at it's core.

[Jarred Land]

It would be good to see a minimal useable configuration by adding the battery, view finder, and flash adapter in the most minimal way.

yes.. you can record to flash and use a battery belt and make the entire rig very very lean and mean.

[Desert Rune]

The design looks delicious!

Any chance we'll see a hand grip version, so we can hold it like a HVX? :)

[Jason Francois]

the more compact the better, in my opinion. The camera is still big enough for those that have pre-conceived notions of what a professional camera should be, so we don't have to worry there, but it would be nice to get it shrunk as much as possible. Of course this has been discussed at length before.

Now if the battery could just wedge in there somewhere. :)

Nice work. This is fun to witness.

[Jarred Land]

I always thought the handgrip kinda sucked, this new one is awesome.

thats why we are doing this now while we can before we go into production.. to make things better.