I like being a frugal person. Being frugal in some choices gives me freedom in other choices. I’ll sacrifice in all kinds of material ways to buy gear to improve the production of GeekBrief.TV. That’s why I just ordered a Canon EOS D5 Mark II. That’s a club I want to join.

Before? I had the Red Scarlet on my shopping list for 2009. Today? I took the Red Scarlet off my list. Also today Red announced a change of plans. On a post at scarletuser.com, Jim said this:

“We have changed everything about Scarlet because the market has changed and we have discovered a lot of things in the process. We have a new vision.

Wipe you minds of the past announced Scarlet. Forget the design and forget the price. It is all different now. We think you will be surprised. Glad we didn’t take any deposits… ”

We may end up with a Scarlet in the long run, but that’s the nice thing about pro equipment. You can sell what you buy without very much of a loss.