In the last post I said I would have plenty of time to figure out how to pay for the Red One camera I had just made a down payment on before it shipped. Given the interest, the already sizable waiting list, and my only recent reservation, I figured that a summer delivery would be optimistic, with a more conservative estimate approaching a year.

Enter an email from Kelly Fairbanks today:

It looks like your Red Camera number is
#2939 and will hopefully be shipping around April or May.

I knew the present hold up was due to an engineering delay and that full production had yet to begin and that once it did, deliveries would come faster than the few prototype models that have been delivered so far – but April or May! It shocks the sensibilities (and the wallet)! Ah well, four to five months is plenty of time to figure something out.

I can make thirty thousand something dollars in four months…

Uh…