Perhaps I should have started my blog post off with this… “I feel this is a really important blog post, as I am reading in so many places some worryingly ill-informed comments from people.” — In this case, you sir are the leader of the ill informed.

I think your true profession is a blogger… you obviously are very good at it and have been doing it for quite some time. If you weren’t a blogger we wouldn’t be having this discussion. You would be another person that doesn’t understand the RED workflow. Given your importance in the DSLR community, your ill informed opinions affect the opinions of your readers. At least RED was gracious enough to delete any threads or comments that personally attacked you. I see you are not gracious enough to do the same. You milk your audience for some sympathy like a tragic victim in some play.

You have many inaccuracies in that blog post. I only focused on a few major ones that went to the heart of your argument. The way that I look at it… if a shooter wants to shoot at the level of a Scarlet or Epic… then they have to do some research into effective workflows. If they don’t have the knowledge then hire someone to operate as DIT. I’m not a day to day blogger so I’m not going to blog on these issues… trust me when I say they are well covered on reduser.

A person wishing to back up to two drives… should in a good scenario do so simultaneously with a mirrored RAID. I’ve worked on all kinds of shoots… many of my clients don’t have insurance and have very low budgets. I have to travel with the gear to secure it primarily… another function is to help out as DIT, camera technician or AC. Now I’ve been on shoots where I’ve advised clients to bring hard drives and they brought none. Definitely a lessening of professional standards is at play and they are way over their heads. I do my best to advise them… but they approach this like it’s a DSLR.

The problem here is education and research. Even with having one hundred 256GB SSD cards on set… you still need a DIT. The reason for this is to check the footage on a larger display for technical issues. These issues could be vertical lines in the footage, having no footage at all being recorded, sensor noise due to lack of black calibration, etc. A few years back while operating a HVX200 with a FS100 the no data issue appeared on one of our shoots.

I did agree with you by stating… yes the cost is more than what most people think. To me the larger problem is that the DSLR world and the Scarlet/Epic/ALEXA/F65/Film world is way different in professional standards. Call me elitist if you will, I cannot see how writing a blog covering low end cameras could serve both worlds. “Most” of your readers couldn’t even handle the insurance to cover the gear. So yes… it’s way more expensive than what they think.

I wrote two email to you via the email you used to register to my site. i guess it was not real.

There is attracting attention via your work and knowledge which I spent 4 hard long years doing and if you do that it is utterly commendable. Then there is attracting attention by sharing your knowledge by jumping on a hate fuelled bandwagon which is what you did here. Which would you rather be? Yes there is no hate in here but you failed to read my post properly and yet based a whole post on that misinformation. Your timing was deliberate though. You timed it with all this attention on me and RED, you posted it everywhere. It’s clear what your intention was. If it was just about sharing your experiences then great! All the better for everyone but you chose a different approach. One which in my opinion is not so commendable.

Do you know where I posted my post about my RED experience? On my blog, my twitter and my Facebook. I did not post it on any other sites or jump on any hate field baandwagons. I don’t hate. Hate takes up more energy by far.

My profession is a cinematographer and director. I also have a blog.

I hope you understand why I am aggrieved at the path you took on this. Preston summed it up the best.

if you would like to continue this discussion privately over email I would be more than happy to take the time to talk to you. My email is attached to this comment. It’s real. It works.

Thank you.

Kind Regards

Philip

It’s just a shame you didn’t bother reading my opening paragraph of my blog post or bother to actually listen to anything I said there. My last words are these…my experiences.

Good luck

Philip