EPIC missed spec...

[Jay A. Kelley]

er... it's a Cinema Camera, not a news camera...

15 sec is more than enough for such mega power :)

Keep up the incredible work!

Antoine

Careful there... It's a LOT of cameras. While not used a lot for ENG, it's very popular in the ENG world. A quick startup time does matter.. 10 sec is ok though.

Jay

[Michael Hastings]

great minds think alike Jay :-)

(simultaneous posts)

[Aaron Hucker]

In an effort to get the bad news out as soon as we have it, it looks like we will likely miss (at least) one proposed spec on EPIC/Scarlet. The engineers tell me that a 2 second startup time is now not possible given all the changes/additions to the program...

Jim,

Could you highlight for us what the 'changes/additions' are? Are they something different from what we knew when the 2 second startup time was announced?

And '(at least)', does this mean we're to expect more missed spec?

Please don't take this the wrong way, just curious.
Thanks.

[Martin Weiss]

The new cameras draw much less power than the R1, thus using three 190wh V-lock batteries should pretty much cover you for a long day with only two 15 second breaks.

[Cüneyt Kaya]

Jim,

Could you highlight for us what the 'changes/additions' are? Are they something different from what we knew when the 2 second startup time was announced?
..
Please don't take this the wrong way, just curious.
Thanks.

laser sword

[Aaron Hucker]

The new cameras draw much less power than the R1, thus using three 190wh V-lock batteries should pretty much cover you for a long day with only two 15 second breaks.

That is, if you're planning on having an entire support team to help move the damn thing around.

For someone who plans on shooting a wedding for example (and yes, there will be these people) 15 seconds is a LOT of time to wait for your camera.

If this camera is marketed to do a whole wack of different things, we have to remember that it won't be used for just film makers.

We miss a lot of action and hold up clients on a daily basis waiting for our R1 to boot up. Is it a massive deal, no not for us, but the faster the better.

[Scott Crawley]

It's not a deal breaker. Not at all.

Thanks for the news.

[Brent J. Craig]

Reading between the lines, does a 15 second bootup mean that the cameras are loading in at least some firmware? Does that mean that all of the features aren't necessarily 'baked in' to the ASIC and we will still be enjoying frequent updates that add features and fix things?

[Emanuel A.]

No, it is a multi-purpose camera and I suspect the vast majority of RED owners are NOT shooting cinema. One to two minutes boot time with R1 was/is a hindrance for many applications. Ten seconds boot is drastically better and will suit almost everyone fine.

Careful there... It's a LOT of cameras. While not used a lot for ENG, it's very popular in the ENG world. A quick startup time does matter.. 10 sec is ok though.

Jay

great minds think alike Jay :-)

(simultaneous posts)

Well, it does seem there are a lot of non film-style shooters again. Thanks for your reminder.

I'd like to see you more often posting your concerns over here and other sites such as cinematography.com or CML forums, though. Where the film-style (different than cine-style in DSLR times nowadays :-) envelope has been pushed against the RED mission statement... and economies of scale, as matter of fact.

[Jarred Land]

Reading between the lines, does a 15 second bootup mean that the cameras are loading in at least some firmware? Does that mean that all of the features aren't necessarily 'baked in' to the ASIC and we will still be enjoying frequent updates that add features and fix things?

Absolutely....