DP defends his decision to not buy a RED
Here’s a piece from High Definition magazine about Dan Mulligan of Rogue Element Films. Dan recently took delivery of the first Sony F35 in Europe and “found himself somewhat defending the purchase ‘People have been asking ‘Why did you buy that, why didn’t you buy a RED?’”. Dan continues:
There’s still a lack of awareness of what digital is out there and not many fully understand it really. The loss leader price of a RED at $17,000 is such a massive red herring because by the time you spec it properly you’re looking at the same sort of rental costs as a decent F23 system. The F23 and F35 image quality and delivery is much better but nobody will believe you.
He boils it down to- Sony has been around longer, they support the F35 at Band Pro and some technical arguments that don’t quite hold true if you’ve used a RED One more than casually, at least in my opinion. But I wanted to put this up in the interests of presenting all viewpoints. Please sound off in the comments, is Dan right on or way off?
Read the whole story here:
http://www.definitionmagazine.com/cameras/mulligan.htm
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