RED Digital Cinema has announced the S35 (Vista Vision) version of their V-RAPTOR Digital Cinema camera. It shares the same camera body, physical dimensions, input and output ports, lens mount as the original, but has a 8k 120fps S35 sensor.
RED is now shipping their long-awaited certified 2TB high capacity CFexpress Type B card to its range of recording media for the V-RAPTOR. The RED PRO CF express 2TB offers underwater filmmakers a reasonable recording time.
The RED KOMODO 6K Super35 Digital Cinema Camera is now shipping and available to order. It offers a maximum of 40 fps at 6K and has an RF lens mount. The serial production model is in black, in comparison to the many color and white KOMODOs that have already been released. These are beta and special pre-release versions.
Salty housings are accepting pre-orders for their housing for the RED Komodo digital cinema cameras. Machined from aluminum, it has a depth limit of 20m (60ft), is designed to be used with the Atomos Shinobi, and has a port fitting sized at 105mm. This does prevent the use of wide cinema lenses. Salty offers the option of custom paint jobs!
RED Digital Cinema has announced a streamlined range and pricing structure for its camera range. Rather than offer different brains with varying capabilities, the company will now offer one DSMC2 brain with a range of different sensors. The DSMC2 brain is the Weapon specification and will (currently) be offered with Monster, Helium and Gemini sensors.
RED Digital Cinema has announced their new Monstro 8K VV Full Frame sensor for WEAPON cameras. It offers 2/3rd stop more dynamic range, can capture 8K imagery at 60fps, 35.4 MP stills and has data speeds of up to 300MB/s.
DxOMARK has been benchmark testing a prototype of the new ED Helium 8K sensor and awarded their highest score ever. The testing gave the new sensor a score of 108, higher then the previous top score of 101 achieved by the RED Epic Dragon. For comparison, the Sony a7rII achieves 98 and the Nikon D810, 97.
RED Digital Cinema has announced a new 8K sensor which it is calling Helium. At 29.9x15.77mm it is much smaller than the current Dragon sensor, which measures 40.96x21.6mm, but both sensors have 8192x4320 pixels. The new sensor will be available for the existing Weapon camera and a new camera, the Epic-W, will be designed around it in the future. The Helium sensor’s size will give greater lens compatibility.
RED Digital Cinema’s Sean Ruggeri and Nate Heartt have been testing the 6K RED WEAPON camera and the RED Optical Low Pass Filter underwater underwater in Cozumel, Mexico. The camera was housed in Gates DEEP Dragon housing.
RED Digital Cinema has announced the release of the SCARLET-W 5K camera. Intended as an upgrade for existing SCARLET DRAGON owners, the camera features integrated mounting points, interchangeable lens mounts, simultaneous REDCODE® RAW and Apple ProRes recording formats, RED’S OLPF system and in-camera 3D LUT outputs, combined with a RED DRAGON sensor.