RED is becoming the new benchmark, that's all. We're seeing RED all the time, on HD TVs and gradually becoming literate in the look. For commercials and TV drama, it's taken over from Betacam. Our eyes aren't yet capable of distinguishing the look of lesser cameras from RED, but that will change. If we give RED 5 stars for, say, dynamic range, we know how many to give another camera. Movie production staff deal with RED and film every day and are instinctively able to tell the difference. That's their benchmark.

@sebben I'm pretty intrigued by this camera. How come nobody is talking about it?

Here's a little video (sorry for the brief interruption). Both are straight out of their respective cameras, transcoded by Compressor for Vimeo upload. Vimeo password is: test

GH2

Scarlet

Done. The password is: test

-- DC

@David_Cole, thank you. Also do you know about enabling content to stream at 1080p in Vimeo, it's just a tick in a box in the Settings for each video, under video file, it says "Display this video in 1080p". Maibe you know it, but if you could do it would be great.

thank you so much :)

@David_Cole did you downscale the scarlet footage? (or is it shot in 2k?)

Had a quick glance at the footage on my macbook and it's very hard to discern any difference apart from a slight red tinge in the red footage and a slight green tinge from the gh2.

Obviously my screen makes it impossible to pixel-peep. On paper there should be no discernible difference at 720p and a slight advantage in terms of resolution for the scarlet (at least from downscaled 4k) at 1080p.

@x_worpig_x

It's defiantly an interesting camera. It is only being manufactured in small quantities, but I understand they are ramping up production. There are a few quirks that you need to work around, longish camera boot up times and long capturing times from the memory cards. probably not to dissimilar to using a RED ONE.

I really like the image quality though, reminds me of the still images of the leica m8 and m9 and the workflow is much the same. Not surprising since the ikonoskop uses a kodak CCD sensor.

I would buy one if I could, perhaps when V2 comes out I will be able too.

Tokina 11-16's (Nikon mount on GH2, Canon mount on Scarlet)

Good to hear that it works well.. I've have concerns with the reliability of RED (and therefore of using it) but it seems like this is the area where it excels.

I'm hoping to hear some experiences from working with the f65 and it's footage as well..!

What impressed me about the Scarlet image is the sheer amount of latitude. We're certainly nowhere near RAW on a DSLR yet, but the GH2 is doing incredibly well on resolution and on compression. I think in the future we can imagine what a moving RAW DSLR still looks like and call that our DSLR video. The sensors are certainly there, they just need more power under the bonnet - faster image processors. The only reason they don't have them at the moment is that A) not needed for stills and B) expensive C) power hungry and D) hard to cool

-- Good to hear that it works well --

At the risk of sounding like a FANBOY (and truth be told I might be on my way), the Scarlet camera and post application(s) are extremely well designed and executed. You can tell that these products have been developed with a great deal of customer understanding. It all has to "work for a living".