RED squashes major bug, EPIC and Scarlet back on track
After a major delay to a major bug in their new designs, RED is back on track with the EPIC and Scarlet cameras. Originally estimated to come out in 2009, the delays on the new digital cinema cameras were hitting ValveTime levels of unpredictability. RED founder Jim Jannard had this to say in a post last night…
…we have located the wicked, mean and nasty bug and our engineering team has put a bullet in the back of it’s head. That pesky bug has put us behind in our schedule (obviously) since it also held up the work that followed it. We are now making the type of progress we had hoped to be making a few months ago. [from reduser.net]
This can only be a good thing for the company. It was just a couple of weeks ago when a war of words broke out on the their forums, partly due to the delays, leading to a debate on the relative professionalism of using DSLRs to make films. The EPIC will be released first, and soon to be followed by the Scarlet. Though no hard shipping dates were announced, when asked in the forum whether the Scarlet will be available by the end of this year, his one word answer was “Yes”.
[via Electronista]
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