RED unveils 8K "Weapon" camera

[Kaido]

http://nofilmschool.com/2015/04/red...on-dragon-6k-price-cost-availability-nab-2015

The biggest news is their new 8192 x 4320 sensor, which will actually be slightly wider than a standard full-frame 35mm sensor at 40.96mm x 21.6mm.

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As of right now, the big changes in the camera are ProRes recording internally simultaneously with R3D RAW files. These are scaled down to 2K from the full sensor.

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8K WEAPON — Full Frame / Vista Vision

The new 8K sensor is 40.96mm x 21.6mm with a resolution of 8192 x 4320 and a max frame rate of 75fps at 8K.

Supposedly there's an 8K iMac coming later this year as well. Meanwhile, I'm still sitting here shooting on my iPhone 😀

 

[IronWing]

Reading the specs all I can say, "I have no idea what that is, but I'm sure it's a good one."

 

[Kaido]

Reading the specs all I can say, "I have no idea what that is, but I'm sure it's a good one."

Basically it's double 4K, which is good for two reasons:

1. They're already working on 8K televisions (set to ship this year)

2. You have more room for cropping.

Cropping is a big deal not just for reframing the shot, but also for stabilization, like if you're flying on a drone - you can buy a cheaper, more jittery drone & still get good footage out of it because you can cut out the wobbly parts using a stabilization software tool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW3qU6pXBtA

The Prores piece is a big deal because now you can edit & preview a small Prores file rather than the whole stinkin' 8K file, and then have it grab the 8K footage when you go to transcode it into a final format (iirc you had to buy a separate module that made smaller proxies to do that before).

 

[Buttercream]

Actually, it's four times 4K.

4K refers to the horizontal resolution of 4096x2160, not to be confused with UHD-1 (3840x2160), which happens to be exactly four times the resolution of 1080p.

Side note, stills pulled from 8K footage would be 35 megapixels per piece. Yowza.

 

[mmntech]

I've only seen a RED in the wild once, and they are a beast. Full frame 8K is going to give us spectacular video quality in the cinema. Though it's not that practical for home use IMO.

 

[Anubis]

we had a film crew at work doing some promo filming of things and they were using Epics/Dragons/scarlets

watching the raw output of those on the studio monitor they brought was amazing