It was only a matter of time before Film Riot 's Ryan Connolly put in his two cents on the two newest competing cameras, the Canon C300 and RED Scarlet.

A few nights ago, both Canon and RED announced cameras in the heart of filmmaking land, only 10 blocks apart from each other. Judging from the specs you could easily say that RED blows Canon right out of the water. 4k resolution at 1-25fps, 2k at 60fps and HDR-x technology at a pricepoint that's comparable to Canon's 1080p are the core differences.

Film Riot , which plays Mondays and Thursdays on Revision3 , is a virtual film school right here on the web.

Film Riot host Ryan Connolly got to test drive one of Hollywood’s newest toys, the RED Epic camera, and played around with it for a couple of episodes .

The latest episodes of Film Riot take a look at a dream camera, the RED Epic , a camera that has been used to shoot Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, next year’s The Amazing Spider-Man, and Peter Jackson’s future mega-blockbuster The Hobbit. The RED Epic will also cost you around $55,000 to own, so this isn’t exactly DIY material host Ryan Connolly is taking on here, and in fact he is only being loaned the camera for demonstration purposes. An Introduction To The RED Epic Camera – Hands On Episode 121 of Film Riot is pretty much a review of the RED Epic, and Connolly shows how easy the camera is to use, despite rumors that you would need an Epic technician on site at all times during a shoot.