Last year, the company Red shook the digital cinematography market with its Red One, a 4 K camera, with all the characteristics of the expensive high-definition cameras from the big brands, but at a fraction of the cost. The launch of the Red One was preceded by a major online expectation campaign, which caused that during NAB of April last year, the closed stand of the company, be permanently surrounded for a long line of customers and curious people who wanted to meet, view and touch The Red One.
Red wants to do it this year again. On the company's website there is a banner, without link to nowhere, announcing a new camera model, the Scarlet. The banner only says that Scarlet is a camera digital cinematography professional, pocket (Pocket) Professional Digital Cinema Camera) and that the rest of the information will be available at NAB in Las Vegas starting of April 14.
User forums on the Internet they are burning. There is a lot of speculation and little if perhaps some confirmed information. It is expected that the Scarlet is based on the same technology as the Red One and that include 4K capture.
Now, if we take into account that the Red One is a camera under $20,000, some Foristas estimate that the Scarlet will have to break the barrier of the US$10 thousand (it should be clarified that for these prices you do not get nothing really functional because you have to add lenses, batteries, viewers, etc.).
Anyway, 4K for that Price will be worth queuing up at the NAB booth.
