Aaron Lochert
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2. The crop sensor isn't as big a deal as I thought. We shot 4.5K widescreen and didn't really need to adjust our lensing and workflow. This was a surprise... I thought being on a tighter sensor would be more limiting. It wasn't (for us, anyway)
We lucked out when Red decided to boost the sensor width to 23mm by adding 4.5K shortly after announcement. That's only a 1.08x horizontal crop from Super 35's width of 24.89mm, negligible. Yeah, the sensor isn't as close in the vertical dimension of S35, but if we're framing for 2.4:1, we're just gonna mask out all that vertical information, anyway. That's what I'll mostly be doing, too, so I don't see the sensor size as a con.
Thanks for the insights. Eagerly awaiting mine.