Christopher Dillon

That really is an impressive apology, the offended couldn't have written it better, but could The Apologist or someone else please show me the the slanderous comments in question? I can't seem to find them.

If I had known that dvxuser.com was so intimately connected with Red, I might not have written what I did. I've been on forums long enough to be repulsed by trolling behaviour. I really enjoy the forums on DPReview.com and find it irritating and unuseful when a Canon person comes into the Nikon rooms and simply wants to irritate folks through snide or leading comments or impersonations, etc, purely for fun or out of some kind of juvenile competitive orientation. I try to judge products on their merit, not on the loyalty of their consumers. I did not know that DVXuser.com, when relating to Red, is a sort of clubhouse for investors and guests, which is totally their right to create and maintain. Had I known I was a guest in a clubhouse as apposed to a walk-up to a public conversation, I would have acted accordingly. I don't take pleasure in being rude. I only checked Mr. Jannard because he took my initial comment as a personal attack on him, which it wasn't, and called me an a**hole. You'd think red was making a better gun rather than a camera based on the behaviour of the redheads. And to all the people who have talked of accusations, I should remind you that I simply considered the possibilty of a hoax. A casual glance at the news shows that we currently live in a culture saturated in immoral corporate behaviour. A more mature response to my "rudeness" would have been to say something like, "You don't have to believe me if you don't want to, and you are welcome to say what you like, but I'd remind you that there is no evidence of a hoax, so please limit your comments to what you think you know or would like to know about Red while in a Red forum". Some people more level-headedly encouraged me to check the batteries on my bullsh*t detector and I felt challenged in a kind of jovial way that put a smile on my face and all was right with the world. And because I don't feel I need to take the word of strangers on the internet, I checked the batteries in my BS detector in the best way I could think of, I left the forums and picked up the phone and called the Lake Forest Police Department down in Orange County, CA, where Red is located and the scene of the crime. The police did respond to a commercial break in on sunday, and an investigation is underway. This doesn't prove anything other than that the police were called, but hopefully this will allow the redheads to Red In Peace. And that is that. Now I'd appreciate it if someone would direct me to the Arri Kingdom and tell me who's **** I have to **** to get one these these: http://www.arri.com/entry/416.htm

This isn't about gossip or rumors. I postulated that this purported break in could be a hoax to drum up attention, but ultimately, now I'm more concerned about the behaviour exhibited by the Redheads. I believe that ultimately the Red fanbase is comprised of an unusual amount of individuals with compromised critical abilities that are potentially dangerously insecure. If you are concerned about visciousness, I recommend you bring that up with some folks here and on DVXuser.com that are giggling giddily with censure, who have verbally assaulted, in the most venomously offensive fashion, myself and others rather than let our comments pass unanswered and ignored. The fact that I was removed for my comments exposes the bias of the website when people are allowed to answer unpopular posts with verbal attacks and profanities repeated over and over in all-caps "F*** YOU!" One comment suggested something like "beat them and make them know what it feels like to be a woman"! What facillitor would allow such awful talk? I'm sure many suporters of the Red project are more embarrassed by the rivers of vulgarity and hate flowing through their forums from fellow fans than from my lil comments. You'd think that the Redheads thought the chance of success of this project rested soley on their fanatical support and not on the ingenuity and fortitude of the Red team, who are mostly to blame, not my smart mouth, for the current state of affairs. Corporate sabotage and espionage are shameful, but nothing new and should have been expected and planned for. Nothing I could ever say or do could be more damaging or embarrassing to Red than the behaviour of these fan-atics. The world is going to continue to be filled with indelible images that touch our hearts and minds, with or without this camera, and cameras that are as good as they would ever need to be to TELL A STORY (rather than visually articulate individual blades of grass) are collecting dust on all our shelves as we speak. Peace.

I recently found my way to the DVXuser.com based on a link regarding a claim of a break in at Red, and, after three incredibly reasonable comments on that site, found myself facing this statement after trying to log in: You have been banned for the following reason: None Date the ban will be lifted: Never. Upon reading Mr. Jannard's statement and offer of a reward, I immediately thought of the possibility that this could be some kind of viral marketing scheme. I have no proof, but I live in a world where companies do all sorts of things of this nature, and worse. A few years ago, IBM hired an ad agency who hired someone and they hired someone, etc, to stencil-paint little penguins all over San Francisco to get people talking, "what is it?", "have you seen the penguins", etc. Well, it did get people talking and it got the police involved and it was traced to IBM and they had to pay a fine of $100,000 dollars. If anyone can think of a bigger and more "serious" and more legitimate (at least in the general public's eyes) company than Big Blue, let me know. Proof: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...001&sc=1000 http://www.urbanblight.org/news/examiner20051230.htm And the worse tactics being something like what we are hearing about now with HP bugging their own people and seeking to plant spies at "enemy" newspapers, etc: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Business/story?i...8715&page=1 and, worst of all, allegations against Coca Cola (to put my allegations against Big Red in perspective): http://www.cokewatch.org/news/nr_020417_1.htm So I signed up to the forum and wrote my thoughts. I should say that I really hadn't been to that forum before, so I had no idea of the deeply obsequious nature of that crowd. I wish I could find their enthusiasm and support for Red inspiring, but I have to say that, after the responses, threats and name calling, it is anything but. I have followed this company and the hype around it for sometime, though not obsessively, and I am aware that many others following it have been less than supportive of the grand claims. For my part, I have not nor even now do I want them to fail in their goals. I have shelves full of equipment that, other than a beloved Rollieflex that is as close to friend as equipment could ever be, I would replace if a tool came along that I truly believed would better help me communicate. I will say that there is an air of arrogance in their marketing, and I have always kept an eye on a company that seemed more adept at marketing and creating intriguing industrial design of the camera shell than delivering the promised revolution. So my initial comment ignited a torrent of responses that were only impressive in their immaturity, insecurity and ignorance. One thing I am coming to understand is that most of these people have paid $1000 to reserve a camera and have been in communication with Red via forums and have developed a no less than emotional attachment to what they see as "their" baby. I would be very suprised if marketing companies and university departments aren't studying this phenomenon furiously as I type. I would clip and paste my three comments but I can't get back into their digital daisy chain to do so, so you will have to go their and read and judge for yourself. My second comment on Dvxuser was in response to company head, Jim Jannard's, direct comment to me that called me an a**hole for even doubting him. This guy clearly takes forums seriously enough in the marketing and development of his product to be reading and posting very frequently and especially at a time that I would think would have him in emergency response mode offline. Yes, I understand that it would be human nature to be angry and upset if this was all true and perhaps even be looking for comfort from his fans, which he has received in droves. I responded to his name calling by responding that he should direct his anger at himself for not securing his valuables better and suggesting that he do his forum reading and responding while sitting next to his equiptment which would have them protected 24 hours a day, which was a bit catty, but I had just been called an a**hole, so I felt a bit allowed. My last comment was in response to a Redhead that asked me incredulously if I thought that he should put his camera and files in a bank vault every night and/or have it under armed guard, to which I simply replied, "Yes, obviously. Peace." And now I am banished from The Land of the Red, but hope I will find safe harbor here in the Land of the Living. I do feel a bit naive in thinking that dissent and scepticism were welcome there, but as I have seen what I view as an overall higher level of intelligence and critical thinking on cinematography.com, I hope this long post will be tolerated here. It is not so difficult to scroll past and down, after all, right? And let us all remember, this is the internet, truth is a very illusive thing on here, in fact, it's entirely possible that I am Jim Jannard throwing yet another log onto the Flame War. Believe it or not, I am here as a lover of image capture in all forms from Pixelvision to tomorrow's 70mm-killing digital technologies, but I encourage us all to save our emotional attachments to the neglected lovers sitting across the room rolling their eyes as we type. Peace and love to all my fellow image wranglers.