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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

KOMODO....

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CFExpress certainly is an impressive bit of tech, but availability and cost in the near term might make it too soon to make the move. The newest CFast media, particularly the Angelbird cards which are optimized for sustained writes, should be great. I would assume that down the road a media bay for CFExpress could be made when the cards are ready for prime time. The size "C" variant is theoretically capable of 4GB/s, so unless filling up storage pools is your jam, that should hold us for more than a minute or two ;-)

Cheers - #19
 
Christopher bell said:
Jarred confirmed that it is NOT 8k VV. so it will be smaller than that
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Its not 8k VV but he did not say it was smaller or bigger, could be any of those two then. Komodo dragons are the biggest dragons on the planet, exept for the fantasy ones... So possibly that says something about the size. :)
 
Jared can we throw one out of a plane attached to someones head? It worked well with an Epic but I feel like this could be what i've been dreaming of and would make a world of difference

Our latest freefall with an Epic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4I-ftH7dk0
 
Blair S. Paulsen said:
The "auto focus is worse than useless for motion work" orthodoxy may have finally met it's match in ever more sophisticated AI applications. For some narrative work, there is no substitute for a human focus puller's ability to add meaning to a scene. That said, in the vast majority of production scenarios reliable tracking auto focus would rock.

Cheers - #19
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Sony's recent cameras, notably the RX100 VII and the A7RIV, have amazingly good AF. That is what a lot of documentary shooters will absolutely love. The A9 is also amazingly good, and there's a reason why it's still the best sports camera available right now, save for maybe the E-M1 X (maybe).

Mathias Erichsen said:
Looks a bit like micro 4/3... Hope I’m way of, as I think that would be pretty sad.
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Sadly, it does not look like Micro 4/3 to me... I say 'sadly' because I love that format. I don't like EF or RF and I do wish RED would get off that train. EF, at least, is a shit mount. So are most mounts.

Leica does mounts better than anybody IMO, but I don't quite think that a Leica mount is what RED should use. I'd go for the FE personally. OTOH if the Komodo's mount is just something to mount a FLR, then who cares.
 
Very interesting opinion there Karim. I'm a man of a few thoughts when it comes to the newer Mirrorless Mounts. Sony was early to the party with the E-Mount and it's gaining steam. Nikon Z came a bit later and you can barely adapt Sony glass to it and certainly not the other way around likely due to contract related stuff that led to the standard.

Canon EF still is about 70+% of the market and they were a little later to the party when it comes to shorter flange distance mounts, but I will credit them for some interesting stuff like having the electronics to support things like the Control Ring.

L is also pretty new in terms of the current efforts, I suspect many will have the option to go to R mount once Canon is in full swing and Sigma has at least hinted at that.

The very extraordinary good news for us mere mortals is with these new mounts comes new flexibility when it comes to using adapters and all that, which I do on a regular basis. Things like ND mounts and macro helicoids are just the beginning of what's possible. This is what excites me when it comes to smaller cameras like Komodo and others dabbling in the tiny arts, because you can kit them into tiny little
utility cameras or just main cameras if you need to keep size way down.

I'm curious where it fits into my world. Tiny cameras certainly inspire some unique shots and even projects.
 
Looks like EF and S35 crop.
Flange ? :)

Glad that there is no frikkin hdmi. SDI - hopefully.
 
I guess some answers are in this 2018 article concerning the Hydrogen: “The modules include a better-than-5K 2D sensor with a near-universal interchangeable lens mount — “damn near every lens ever made” was the quote from Hydrogen team lead Phil Holland — REDCODE RAW LITE encoding and an external battery slot.”
 
Dabling Harward said:
I really wish everything would just go to CFEXPRESS cards already. 1400 max write and 1600 offload speeds. This will future proof the memory aspect of the camera and keep us from waiting around with long offload times. Plus the form factor is perfect.
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Would be nice.. but as of today.. CFEXPRESS is still a unicorn.
 
Sweeet! Phil you teased me with that RF Mount info when I said I craved a legit Cinema camera with an RF lens Mount. My Canon RF 28-70 is simply amazing. Probably my favorite lens ever.

RED certainly has my attention once again.

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Jared,

The feature I’d like to request for all future RED cameras is a rock solid AF system. Canon’s dual pixel autofocus is such a liberating feature. Same goes for Dual ISO.

You build this and you’ll steal a ton of customers (myself included) back from Canon, Sony, Panasonic, and Blackmagic. I miss RED code.
 
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It's 100% RF, I really really hope it's locking...if not all the adapter adapters fun will be ruined by image shift and such...

It also seems s35ish and not FF given the sensor area in relation to the mount, but the one pictured could be just a beta unit with a smaller sensor...
 
Dabling Harward said:
I really wish everything would just go to CFEXPRESS cards already. 1400 max write and 1600 offload speeds. This will future proof the memory aspect of the camera and keep us from waiting around with long offload times. Plus the form factor is perfect.
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CFExpress cameras and cards are being tested right now. Sandisk, Sony, Lexar, Delkin, ProGrade, and others have working samples and are offering them for the camera R&D. I expect that NAB 2020 and other events will see a small number of CFExpress cameras or more updates to current hardware to use CFExpress cards instead of XQD.
 
Adam Johnson said:
Sweeet! Phil you teased me with that RF Mount info when I said I craved a legit Cinema camera with an RF lens Mount. My Canon RF 28-70 is simply amazing. Probably my favorite lens ever.

RED certainly has my attention once again.

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Jared,

The feature I’d like to request for all future RED cameras is a rock solid AF system. Canon’s dual pixel autofocus is such a liberating feature. Same goes for Dual ISO.

You build this and you’ll steal a ton of customers (myself included) back from Canon, Sony, Panasonic, and Blackmagic. I miss RED code.
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Agreed!. A rock solid smart AF is needed
 
Ugo Del said:
I guess some answers are in this 2018 article concerning the Hydrogen: “The modules include a better-than-5K 2D sensor with a near-universal interchangeable lens mount — “damn near every lens ever made” was the quote from Hydrogen team lead Phil Holland — REDCODE RAW LITE encoding and an external battery slot.”
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Wouldn't REDcode Lite more or less be higher compression ratios, or do you think it's half-debayered ala BRAW?
 
Jarred, I'm dying to know if you'll offer a Mono Komodo? I've still been chugging along using my Epic-X M-X Monochrome, and something to move up to or have compliment it would be great :)
 
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CFExpress cameras and cards are being tested right now. Sandisk, Sony, Lexar, Delkin, ProGrade, and others have working samples and are offering them for the camera R&D. I expect that NAB 2020 and other events will see a small number of CFExpress cameras or more updates to current hardware to use CFExpress cards instead of XQD.
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Not to mention who wants an untested media card like that? Give it some time and some time for that $$$ to drop. Also, how will offload be any faster if what your offloading to is bottlenecked? Everything needs to get faster and as far as I know, most people aren't running NVME 2.0 drives for offload.
 
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