Big Resolution News...

[Greg M]

It is a great news and a bad news. Now there is even bigger need for sharp (and expensive) glass. In particular, it will be difficult to reach the sensor resolution WFO.

I can see the difference even wide open.

[Mark L. Pederson]

Now there is even bigger need for sharp (and expensive) glass. In particular, it will be difficult to reach the sensor resolution WFO.

Red Pro Primes are scary sharp and can handle the resolution.

T 1.8 is pretty damn fast when shooting rated at ISO 800-1280

[Jason Diamond]

I am continually stunned by the whole RED teams lack of willingness to let it be "good enough" and continually squeezing more and more out of the current technology and not making us, the customer, constantly shell out for the "newer, better, etc..." but providing it as a matter of course.

Kudos for setting the marks so high on what any customer should expect from any company.

thanks again.
Jason

[Elijah Kelley]

Great news!!!
Jim,
Will other settings resolve the same? As I have RPPs and just want to know how to continually reach the same results as your MTF chart(I don't know the math but I can read the modulation chart)...In addition, I will gladly sacrifice my look around to get 4.1K measured resolution.

Thanks.

[mikeburton]

I think it's a good day for RED being able to leave the 3.2k measured resolution stigma behind them. Whatever the numbers equal out to the important thing is that both M and MX create beautiful imagery. That's really all I care about.

[Michael Brennan]

Full marks for questioning the hows and whys of the establishment.


Mike Brennan

[Shawn Nelson]

Awesome!

I love how you guys are artists and scientists :-)

[Rob Ruffo]

Exactly.

I have been avoiding posting about how insanely good the MX is - as it is hard to talk about and not come off sounding like an crazed fan. The latitude and overall image quality - color & resolution - are hands down awesome.

The F35, while having much lower res. (and we won't get into the science-project form factor), used to beat Red at lattitude and color, as well as its ability to do whip-pans. Now I think Red has beat it. So now we have the best digital camera in the world....

I challenge someone to name a cam that is actually better in any way (35mm film stocks do not count) than Red + MX and to name the way.

[jbeale]

it still looks like things get a little shaky around the 3500 mark on the 4.5k graph... [...] But I was just wondering is all.

If you're curious, you can try making these kinds of plots yourself, with any kind of digital camera. You just need a resolution test pattern chart like the one shown on this page: http://www.normankoren.com/Tutorials/MTF5.html

When you plot out the result, you will typically see the response pattern get bumpy towards the upper end of the resolution range, due to the interaction between the fixed pixel grid spacing and the varying lines and spaces of the test chart. At least that's my interpretation. I've never seen such a response plot be entirely smooth. (If it was entirely smooth, I think that would mean your anti-alias filter was so strong that you'd loose a lot of potential MTF.)

[JD Holloway]

Yes it has a new OLPF. Im not sure if thats the reason, but it looks a lot sharper.

I should think B4 posting. Theres no way the old OLPF could have ever let that amount of resolution though. Aliasing protection and the like.