[cmdrreiki]

I'm not really impressed with RED cameras either. They're cheaper than any other higher resolution digital cameras because they traded spatial resolution for bit-depth. Red returned to a bayer-filtered CMOS array, abandoning the higher quality 3CCD sensors. RED has marketed to the higher ups that feel they don't need to listen to digital video engineers about signal quality, and its worked. About the limitations of bayer filtering: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3370690

[revdinosaur]

At the rental house that I use, I hear that the Arri Alexa gets more traffic than their stock of REDs. It makes sense that a powerhouse in the industry like Arri would be able to cater to moviemakers better than a newcomer that showed up making a lot of promises that they couldn't always honor.

[mashmac2]

Well, also important to note that an Alexa is rented more then a RED because of the price jump associated with owning an Alexa...