Frankly Scarlet - The best pocket digital camera ever.
Apr 14th, 2008 | By Mr.K | Category: Photo Equipment, The Latest
I do give a damn.
Red Digital Cinema, makers of the impressive Red One ultra High Def movie camera have announced the more than double high def UNCOMPRESSED movie camera that could fit in your pocket… if you pocket is HUGE. It looks like it’s bigger than a DSLR especailly once you put the extra handles and bits on it, but it’s still a very small package for what you get.
The most important part for me? It’s uncompressed video. What does that mean? It’s like the difference between RAW and JPEG (or film vs. prints). I want to have the most control and the highest quality when I sit down to edit. Don’t you? Capturing uncompressed video is the only way to do it.
SPECIFICATIONS:
- NEW 2/3″ MYSTERIUM X SENSOR
- 1-120 FPS (180FPS BURST)
- UP TO 100 MB/SEC REDCODE RAW AND RGB RECORDING TO DUAL COMPACT FLASH
- 4.8″ LCD
- 8X T2.8 RED ZOOM LENS
- FULL AUTO OR FULL MANUAL SHOOTING MODES
- HDMI and HD-SDI
- FIREWIRE 800 and USB2
- STILL MODE
- COMPATIBLE WITH MANY RED ONE ACCESSORIES
- WI-FI CONTROL
They’re saying it will come out early 2009. So sad. I want it now. The happy news is it’s supposed to come out for under $3000. Sounds good to me.
Now we wait.
Are we there yet?
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Not correct to say uncompressed. RAW and uncompressed are two different things.
Hi Bob, Thanks for your comment. However, I didn’t say RAW and uncompressed were the same thing. I said that uncompressed vs. compressed was “like the difference between RAW and JPEG”. Which it is.
BTW, according to the current word, the Scarlet will shoot uncompressed RAW.