About RED's 617 Mysterium Monstro sensor.

[Deadtrees]

617 format digital sensor with resolution of 261MP sounds just insane. If it wasn't RED, I wouldn't even consider it seriously but since it's RED, I think it's highly possible.
Even so, I just don't get how the camera will handle such a huge MP internally. Even for a still camera, that's just way too huge and we're talking about 251MP @ 25 fps! Also, what kind of computer would it take to edit those files?
All I can think is....'it's just crazy amount of MP and it's a video camera??? How is it possible?'

Does anyone know or have an idea how it's possible?

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Lots and lots of hamsters on wheels. That's how.

 

[996GT2]

Apparently the mysterium 617 sensor has more pixels than the human eye has rods+cones

 

[Feanor727]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
Lots and lots of hamsters on wheels. That's how.

don't forget about the giant series of interconnecting tubes...

 

[Kaido]

Savage aliens.

From the savage future! :Q

 

[shocksyde]

I'll bet the sensor is a harvested human eye with 20/10 vision.

 

[Koing]

It's not schedule until spring 2010 and they hope quad 10-12 way cpu's are out by then

From what I have read you don't have to edit native redcode (it is not raw btw), you edit another stream thats 1/4, 1/4 or ful res. This then tranposes to the full redcode.

Koing

 

[996GT2]

Originally posted by: Koing
It's not schedule until spring 2010 and they hope quad 10-12 way cpu's are out by then

From what I have read you don't have to edit native redcode (it is not raw btw), you edit another stream thats 1/4, 1/4 or ful res. This then tranposes to the full redcode.

Koing

Even 1/4 of full res still means that every frame is around 60 megapixels. Compare this to 1080p where each frame is around 2 megapixels...

Sounds almost too good to be true