There’s some new wrinkles to Red’s camcorder lineup. First off, everything you knew about Scarlet? Forget it. They’ve revamped the whole thing and have a new version of the Scarlet alongside the Epic. The idea is that you can have a fully modular camcorder setup that is prepared for digital cinema at whatever resolution you want to shoot. You can start with the Scarlet “brain” for $2500, add a compatible (2/3″) lens, batteries, and as much monitoring, I/O and recording modules as you like. Then if you feel so inclined, you can graduate up with a new “brain”, lenses, etc.

The traditional camcorder manufacturers (and, really, film camera manufacturers too) are probably more than a little worried watching the Red lineup evolve. The pricing is fierce. The stuff looks cool. There are some Hollywood productions on the drawing board that will be using Red’s technology. We expect hard drive manufacturers to be rubbing their hands together in anticipation of big sales (on the order of terabytes, easy) of drives to Red camcorder owners working on big productions.

The lone problem? Red is mum about the exact date when the new stuff will become available. The original Red One is now shipping, though.

Red Digital Cinema announced on their scarletuser.com forum, that their highly anticipated Scarlet camcorder has been taken back to the drawing board in response to recent market changes. They promise that the new Scarlet will be better than the originally planned model, but details were not yet forthcoming.

Release dates have been moved from early 2009, to just 2009. We’ll post updates about Scarlet 2.0 here as they come out, but as for now, everything you thought you knew about Scarlet is wrong.