The “budget” option from RED’s enormous modular lineup has finally spit out an actual moving image for all of us to see (autoplaying video, let it run through once). The 2/3″ sensor is far smaller than the original RED camera, but it looks like that doesn’t present a problem; the shot above was a 100mm prime at T5.6. Image quality and contrast look great. Now imagine that image at somewhere between 1 and 120 frames per second and about 10 times as big — shot from something you can fit in your purse. Assuming you have a purse.
Remember, this is the lowest end of the RED spectrum. Actually, the “all-in-one” Scarlet (costing around $4000, I’d guess) will have a permanent zoom applied, so the glass won’t be as nice as the RED primes, but the sensor family is obviously close to being ready for production. Soon we’ll see if the RED has the impact on the motion picture industry we thought it would. It’s already increased cinema lens demand by a significant amount.
[thanks for the tip, Mike]
That IS amazing!
OH my god I want everything to be filmed with this. Even the ShamWOW commercials
Holy shit!
ROTFL!
any other pictures?
That’s very cool Devin. Who shot this and where’s it from? Is it directly from RED? Also, since Scarlet is an all-in-one with a zoom attached, as you mention, how’d they get the 100mm prime on there? Or must be just the sensor, jerry-rigged with the 100mm somehow.
(And perhaps it goes without saying but that’s a cool frickin’ lizard too.)
It was shot at the RED labs by one of the folks there. It’s a Scarlet “brain” (sensor and enclosure) but with the 100mm attached – only one version of the scarlet will come with the zoom attached.
Can we attach SLR lens to a Scarlet cinema brain($2500) without any adapter???
One word, “Wow!”
…of course they will have to re-track the Sham-WOW spot to read:
“…are you following me, ‘Scarlet’ guy?”
Seriously, you slap a prime and a DOF adaptor on this sensor and you got yourself quite a movie.
Film is dead – long live movies!
As Devin said, the you will be able to mount PL, Red, and other glass on the Scarlet–so no DOF adaptor will be necessary.
However, there will be an additional Scarlet model that will come with a fixed zoom lens and that will run for about $4,000.
Im jazzed for this camera. I’m sure I will be upping my credit card woes when this comes out, but i don’t even care. This thing looks sweet.
Nice video clip, gives us a good idea of what to expect, but I’d like to see human skin tones before I get really excited about the camera, since I don’t interview many lizards in my line of work. I wish I could be shooting my next documentary with a Scarlet right now…
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Can we attach SLR lens to the Scarlet Cinema($2500 body only) without any adapter or mount????
Is this camera ever going to be released?
I don’t see anything spectacular in this image. Any decent prosumer camera can produce very similar images when you’re doing close-ups. Most important is how scarlet will hold up in WIDE shots, not close-ups… WIDE shots are the weak link of the digital camcorders.
Quote* I don’t see anything spectacular in this image. Any decent prosumer camera can produce very similar images when you’re doing close-ups. Most important is how scarlet will hold up in WIDE shots, not close-ups… WIDE shots are the weak link of the digital camcorders.*Quote
This may be true, subjectively, but the thing is, most “prosumer” cameras have substandard chroma sampling from high compression ratios. Ever try compositing with 4:1:1 or 4:2:0 color space? Even 4:2:2 poses some problems. Most of these cams don’t even have full HD sensors, and rely on pixel shifting or some other up-rezzing technique.
Wide shot weakness is usually a combination of cheap glass, weak/small sensors, and high compression. In fact, the cheapest 2/3″ cam available seems to be the Panny HPX-500 @ $10,000.00 or so, and is substantially larger than the Scarlet.
The final thing is that NOTHING else can compare to these specs in this price range. If you want 120fps, 3K resolution, you’re looking at about $20,000 for a bare bones functional Red ONE (no glass), or $60,000+ for anything else.
The Scarlet is in a class of it’s own. I wait in eager anticipation for it to be released.
Yes, agreed. I’m looking forward to scarlet as well. But, my point was that anything will look good when you downscale to such a small image. I’d love to see something larger, preferably downloadble high-res quicktime video in 1080P, that would make my hurt pump!
It will worth to use scarlet if you will be able to use different lenses on it. Not only Red ones. But still how in world you can use Compact Flash with it when the fastest of it on market support only realistic 35 Mb/sec upload and download. And if it will be as Red say 100 Mb/sec theoretically where you gonna store it let say you need 1 min clip so 1×60x100=6GB, so largest is 32 GBx2(dual) so we have 10 min capacity on camera? Or it is Mbit/sec? then it will be 40 min. But no such flash exist at the moment. But I want this camera now. I’ll saw that static lens out and glue adaptor to mount lens I want ;)
Dont forget this image is using the top of the range Scarlet Brain… The bottom end Scarlet is completely different. 3k not 5k.
For the bottom range Scarlets…
2 choices..
One has a fixed 8m lense.
Or you can buy the same brain without any lense. Then you can choose the lense you want from a range of Mini Prime Lenses..
You would not be able to use the above lense they have used for this demo with the smaller scarlet brain. Not compatible. I checked red.com
Yet to see anything shot on the Scarlet brain thats 2500 dollars.. with a mini prime lense or 3750 dollars with the fixed 8mm lense and kit, package…Wanna see something. I am a fan of this camera by the way. Looking forward to it.
The bottom range Scarlet looks very promising.. Just be clear about it avoiding propaganda.
Sometimes these sites give us half the picture.
If anyone gets any images from a scarlet camera they should be sure to check which SCARLET. As 4 different choices.
The top of the range Scarlet brain costs 9500$ on its own with no lenses..
This image above could be from that brain ?
I would like to know.
Please post up an image from the 2500$ brain.
I double checked.
http://www.red.com/epic_scarlet/
Go here and you will see it.
Please someone find an image (Moving) from the $2500 brain 2/3 cinema with a mini prime lense.
Thats what people are waiting for now…
Or even better something from the Scarlet with the fixed 8mm mini prime.
Really excited to see that tested out.
Other manufacturers will have things going on to compete hopefully.. don`t want red getting too big for their boots.. kind of like what`s happening with RED with these cameras… may be able to see a sea of change and disperse with the idea of consumer cameras.. ALL cameras In future should be of great quality. This prsumer consumer thing is Bshit… we have the technology to make a pro video camera affordable. Just if they wanna do it… Red should continue to break the mould..
Lets hope they do it. As just talk to date… I have seen the price creeping up… Was talk of a complete package at the bottom end being 3000 dollars.
It has gone up to 3750 dollars.
And recently I saw an interview quoting 4000 dollars.
I really hope its not because of the canon 5d mark 2 thing…
Funny that the Canon 5d Mark 2 Is about $4000… business and technology are an ugly match… I know a technician in Canon who said they have been holding back for years… to flog off all the shit cameras.
Drip Drip… pay pay… and more drip….
JOHN LYDON x
Not sure if this has been posted yet, but here is a link to that photo in motion.
http://redgrabs.com/izzy/
Looks absolutely amazing.
Does anyone know what the “complete kit” entails regarding the low end red scarlet?
Above moving image is not made using low end scarlet with fixed lens. It is made with a high end lens. And we do not know which brain. Or how many K ? With this kind of lens a Scarlet is very expensive.
But I look forward to seeing images taken with the lowest end scarlet package. Hopefully not of lizards but of people moving quickly ! Then it will be worth getting excited.
The test is when users use it. Unfortunately the canon 5d mark 2 has images all over the net revealing short films made using top technicians. Hopefully RED will not try the same tricks.. who is gonna have a lens worth more than the camera to fix onto the end of it ? We must see working images with limitations. Until then RED are not saving anyone. There is little difference between camera sales and telesales these days… We get fed a lot of waffle.
Have you checked the price of a 2/3″ B4 high end HD lens lately? They can price out up to $30,000.00. these are used on cameras costing 5-15k. Happens every day. Ask the people using 35mm adapters on their cams. Quite a few use PL mounts, and lenses that cost several times what their camera did.
I look forward to testing it though.
The last indications I heard indicated the Scarlet would be ready by Thanksgiving 2009. However, that’s 5 weeks away, and there are no official updates from RED, not since I think April.
So can we get the Scarlet next month?
The Red company said that the Red scarlet would be out in the beginning of 2009. well they probely should be saying beginning of 2010 !
who knows, by the time it comes out there could be competition to this image quality and the price is no loonger 3000 as they promised but more like 4000. We already got photo cameras with HD video quality breathing the scarlet up the neck at lower price and with exchangeble lense too ! So Scarlet is not the one & only option special since they can not get it finished and others will be catching up in the near future.
But that said Scarlet will be a good camcorder !
Red has since stated, it will be out when it is ready. Besides, they already have an unbeatable product in the RedOne. The main issue from what I can glean is that the sensors and some of the electronics are being finalized, with some like the Monstro series will be delayed due to the efforts to get the Scarlet, and Epic with the smaller sensors out to the public with minimal backordering.
5D, 7D, GH-1, cant hold a candle to full 3k Raw (yet) Canon rumors of a raw recording module are out, but like the Scarlet, yet to be seen. The difference is, the Scarlet is based on solid technology that has passed muster with Hollywood. I’ve seen, and played around with 3k footage from the Red One, and am amazed at the quality/latitude of the footage.
I’m deep into VFX, and the Scarlet is going to save me money on high complexity compositing shots due to the resolution, and the flexibility of the Raw format.
As a precursor to the release (i believe) Red has released the firmware update for the Red One for Redcode 42, the heart of the Scarlet.
I can’t wait.
If you think about it, at it’s worst, it will be as good as a Sony F-900 which is a 2/3 camera and costs 69k…. hmmmmm? Which to choose?