Helium 8k VS Monstro 6k

[antoine carpentier]

I’m on my way to upgrade my helium to Monstro but i’m Interested to see the difference btw S35 helium vs S35 Monstro. There is no test available in this direction.

Can I really choose my shooting formats and lenses with no compression/noise issues...? Does the difference between is only the fact that I will loose 2K of resolution (+ FPS)?

 

[Björn Benckert]

I’m on my way to upgrade my helium to Monstro but i’m Interested to see the difference btw S35 helium vs S35 Monstro. There is no test available in this direction.

Can I really choose my shooting formats and lenses with no compression/noise issues...? Does the difference between is only the fact that I will loose 2K of resolution (+ FPS)?

The smaller part of the sensor you use the more bits you can use to capture those. So if shooting 6k you can use less compression compared to if shooting 8k at the same framerate.

But normally the bigger slice of the sensor you use the better it looks even if the bit rate stays the same. So a 8k image does not need to weight more than a 6k image to look better, on the contrary actually.

 

[antoine carpentier]

You are right but when I crop too much on a dragon or helium sensor it become pretty dirty.

I’m interested to see if the S35 Monstro is good as helium S35

 

[Björn Benckert]

You are right but when I crop too much on a dragon or helium sensor it become pretty dirty.

I’m interested to see if the S35 Monstro is good as helium S35

They are good in different ways. I would say monstro is better in color helium in resolution in such comparison. Have not shot them side by side. So dont have the files to compare. But I would pick Monstro6k over helium 8k if it was up to me.


Also you get more frame rates etc with S35 monstro.

 

[Tom Gleeson]

I have not done any comparative “scientific” testing but having upgraded from Heluim to Monstro you can be completely confident of excellent results at 6K with the Monstro chip and the incremental colour improvements make the Monstro preferable IMHO. 6K for the vast majority of work is no compromise and I have even pushed down to 4K with very good results. The clean image out of the Monstro sensor allows it to window down with less of a penalty than many other chips.

 

[Michael Lindsay]

outside very niche uses I don't belive there will be any resolution issue shooting S35 Monstro over Helium...