Zac--great review, very helpful for me in deciding whether to follow through when my reservation number comes up.
While I wouldn't put it quite so, er, forcefully as does Phil, I would agree that this camera needs to be treated reasonably but above all critically--the weird defensiveness surrounding RED is helpful to no one--
--and Jim Jannard's post complaining about Phil's personal angle on it is apparently made without any sense of irony, sadly; even a casual perusal of the RED company forum will immediately elicit dozens of extremely defensive, even bullying responses from Mr. Jannard and some of his minions to perfectly reasonable questions and considerations posted therein.
Please, let's not let THIS forum become the same battleground for RED dogma--let's simply evaluate it as a product and a tool, not as an alternative to Scientology.
This question of dynamic range, for example: the idea of using a software-derived chart to claim an 11-stop range is unsatisfying and misleading, I think. I'll be keeping my eyes open for real-world tests with well-documented lighting ranges--anyone know of any?
