New color science for dragon

[Ryan Hamblin]

Will old cameras be receving ability to use the updated color science or will we be tied to rc3 and rg3 with mx sensor?

 

[Les Dittert]

Old cameras have different RGB response on the sensor color filter array, making the new revision of color processing incompatible for old sensors.

My question: Will new RCX have different demosaic and if so, will that be used on old R3d's ? How about Red Rocket ? New demosaic ?

 

[Björn Benckert]

How about 3rd party programs will they also need an update to read the files... I guess so. Sucks to have to buy into a new flame that I do not even want just to be able to work with the native files...

 

[Randall Weatherington]

Considering how many .r3d files that are out there, it would be highly unlikely that Red is going to abandon file processing prior to Dragon.
It is easy enough to put a flag in Dragon .r3d files to let updated versions of RCX-Pro know whether it is processing an older .r3d file or a Dragon .r3d file.
The flag would just switch the color science from one file to the other, and might even allow mixing of files on the same timeline in RCX-Pro.

 

[Ryan Hamblin]

So rc3 and rg3 don't work with the original m sensor?

 

[Blair S. Paulsen]

New school

New school

Since this is RedUser I'll avoid unsubstantiated speculation on the provenance of the MX sensor vs the M, but for the purposes of this thread, suffice it to say that the MX is essentially an M with a lower noise floor. The Dragon sensor OTOH is a different beast that requires fundamentally different color matrices. I think Randall is correct in assuming that a metadata flag of some sort will ID the sensor used and the default color science.

I wonder if we'll be able to defeat the flag and do the digital equivalent of cross-processing as a stylized look? I know, I know, you give a mouse a dragon... ;-)

Cheers - #19