The RED designers obviously slept through "Less is more" class.
While RED certainly deserve kudos for their cine cameras, as a DSLR, this is impractical from many ways.
Relative to a DSLR
1. It's big 2. I assume its weight is like its size 3. It's expensive (dSLR FF cameras range $2700 - $8,000) -- this thing will go, what, $20,000 dressed up? 4. "no mirror"? Fine, Canon just have to revive their 'pelicule' design from the EOS-1n. (semi-silvered mirror, 1 stop of light loss to the sensor, 4ms shutter delay (v. 40ms or so for mirror raising SLR's). Canon are king at DSLR noise. The loss of 1 stop at the sensor will not be missed.
I'm happy RED are jumping in. Nothing like competition to keep everyone on their toes.
By the time this thing comes to market, Canon will likely be at 28 - 32 Mpix (36x24mm) and at a much lower price, weight and size.
The current crop of full frames, except those by Nikon of course, are apparently already out resolving most lenses. Thus 28-32 probably isn't going to do anyone any good on 35mm camera.
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The RED designers obviously slept through "Less is more" class.
While RED certainly deserve kudos for their cine cameras, as a DSLR, this is impractical from many ways.
Relative to a DSLR
1. It's big
2. I assume its weight is like its size
3. It's expensive (dSLR FF cameras range $2700 - $8,000) -- this thing will go, what, $20,000 dressed up?
4. "no mirror"? Fine, Canon just have to revive their 'pelicule' design from the EOS-1n. (semi-silvered mirror, 1 stop of light loss to the sensor, 4ms shutter delay (v. 40ms or so for mirror raising SLR's). Canon are king at DSLR noise. The loss of 1 stop at the sensor will not be missed.
I'm happy RED are jumping in. Nothing like competition to keep everyone on their toes.
By the time this thing comes to market, Canon will likely be at 28 - 32 Mpix (36x24mm) and at a much lower price, weight and size.
The current crop of full frames, except those by Nikon of course, are apparently already out resolving most lenses. Thus 28-32 probably isn't going to do anyone any good on 35mm camera.
*"35mm equivalent camera" I mean.