Only a couple of millimeters difference between a 2/3 inch sensor and a 16mm film frame. Black Swan and The Hurt Locker were both filmed on 16mm film cameras (plus a few other cameras) and there is a few more recent films on 16mm as well. The scarlet is available in a interchangeable lens version and accepts all 16mm lenses and Red's new mini prime range.
If you want to say scarlet is basically a broadcast camera based of its chip size then you must also agree that DSLR's are broadcast cameras based of their compression, formats, resolution and little to no chroma sub sampling?
No, you must not agree that at all! Chip size is what differentiates the 'look' that these cameras have more than compression, resolution and chroma sampling. Take a Hollywood Movie for example, once transferred to DVD (and it's crappy resolution, colour space, compression) it still retains its look. The same can not be said of a broadcast camera, no matter how little compression you use. The 'look' will never match 35mm.
Scarlet's selling point is not just in RAW, the hype is coming more so from it's modular magnesium alloy design, high frame rates, 3K sensor that produces 3K images, low compression rates, high dynamic range, even higher dynamic range in HDRx mode, amazing metadata, SSD capability, highly advanced auto focus, fully controllable via Wi-Fi including pulling focus, sending a 1080p h.264 stream and full camera control, RAW of coarse which allows footage to be 'reprocessed' much like film long after the recording and have a very large latitude in post, etc...
The fixed scarlet is far from modular and in reality that is already double the budget that Rendog was wanting to spend.
I've worked on enough 16mm features, doco's and music promos to know that S16 is a good workable format. Yes, IF IF IF Red release an interchangable lens 16mm Scarlet then that will be a great camera but you will need well over $15k once you look at lenses, EVF, CF or SSD recorders etc....
Also, considering Rendog wants to shoot DH mountain biking and is looking at the Sony V1, i am assuming that he doesn't care much for 3k shooting (completely unnecessary) or WiFi focusing!
Looking like a gimp rolling up to a film set with a still camera, priceless.
Hate to break it to you, DSLR's are being used all over the place in the motion picture world. Fixed lens broadcast cameras (read SCARLET) are not . Sorry to be blunt but comments like that kinda prove that you have never been on a proper film set.
Yes, DSLR's have their limitations but the GH2 addresses many of the Canon DSLR's limitations.
Oh and those interviews are all with Ted Schillowitz. He has spoken out of his rear end about scarlet for the past 5 years. He is Red and of course wants to hype it up. If they make an interchangeable version it will be great but EXPENSIVE.
On the other hand plenty of unbiased DOP's, major production houses are using DSLR's for their films. This can not be said of the Scarlet.
Wait for the non existent camera if you wish or start shooting great images now!