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Red dsmc dragon w still worth it at $4k complete?

Started 5 months ago | Questions thread
OP ronald weissman Regular Member • Posts: 313
Re: Red dsmc dragon w still worth it at $4k complete?
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Thanks, John, for a thoughtful reply.

In addition to business objectives, I also have some learning objectives, among them gaining familiarity with Redcode Raw. I've done no work in raw at this point and want to really understand what's out there among things at the top of the raw format heap.  This seems like a very cheap way to explore this medium and potentially up my own skills.

Were I strictly a utilitarian, I'd agree with you fully. But I'm not--and my goals are broader than simply a utility function--and I've also been selling a lot of gear (through private channels--and need to update the list you cited).

More precisely, I'm part of a group actively experimenting with different imaging technologies and have been considering learning (cheaply) if this brings anything to the party that we don't already know about.  The different products you noted have quite different use cases.

The question behind my question was really, "has the world of Red cinema moved so far beyond the last generation of products that a "cheap" investment won't really allow me/us to explore the Red end of the ecosystem (as that generation has been far superceded) and won't teach us much beyond what we could learn about raw from a C70 (or R3)?"

Again, thank you for your Socratic response!

Ron

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