KOMODO....

[Jarred Land]

BTW, since the pins up top are greyed out as well, one can infer that the photo is monochrome and not necessarily the display.

yeah sorry crappy BW filter on my phone... The display is full color. That said the the UI ( at least the part showing in that image) is all pretty much monochrome minus some red outlines around the selections. It obviously gets really colorful when you get the exposure tools and general main screen etc, and of course when you have the actual viewing feed on there.

 

[Robert Hofmeyr]

and of course when you have the actual viewing feed on there.

Okay, I'm in.

 

[Mathias Erichsen]

and of course when you have the actual viewing feed on there.

Amazing news!!!

 

[Bérenger Brillante]

With the ip adress on top so easily viewable, does it mean stream over ip/wifi built in? Like in some mirrorless cameras ?

 

[Ketch Rossi]

O yeah and to complete Gregorys 3 wishes...

Tremblay still tweaking but the UI is already pretty awesome.

Haha, funny thing with you Jarred, never posting an image that shows everything, but still there, love it

Fact is that since the beginning I said here and on H4Vuser that the Komodo it's not to be called a Pro camera in the sense that it's not meant to be an "A" Cinema camera nor will it be one, and that I would use it as a B TS camera only.

Now more and more, I am coming to see what's really made of, and not only I now believe it will make for the best BTS camera ever, even better then any of the RED big brothers, but it will also make for the greatest and smallest Best Cinema camera for full on Docufilms, Series work, and yes, I guess for the first time given recent developments I now believe I, and when I say I, I mean Hollywood could shoot an entire Movie on this little beasts.

Very excited to get my hands on my little Komodo now...

Thanks Jarred and Team for this!

Hopefully a Komodo Stormtrooper would be my Christmas gift to myself

 

[Tim Daust]

Hopefully a Komodo Stormtrooper would be my Christmas gift to myself

I sure hope so. I missed out on the helium troopers but there is absolutely no way I’ll miss out on a Komodo trooper if given the opportunity.... these specs even if not final are great news!!!

 

[Tim Daust]

...And yes, that's all in global shutter mode.

Jarred - does that mean you can toggle global shutter “mode” off? It’s not locked in that mode??? Does that mean more FPS with it off?

 

[Gregory Karydis]

yeah sorry crappy BW filter on my phone... The display is full color. That said the the UI ( at least the part showing in that image) is all pretty much monochrome minus some red outlines around the selections. It obviously gets really colorful when you get the exposure tools and general main screen etc, and of course when you have the actual viewing feed on there.

Viewing feed???
Are we safe to say that Komodo can give us a preview (not necessarily with much detail) in the same way as a medium format camera?
This is getting better and better!!!

 

[Tim Daust]

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Viewing feed???
Are we safe to say that Komodo can give us a preview (not necessarily with much detail) in the same way as a medium format camera?
This is getting better and better!!!

Makes it sound like it for sure! As well as external
Monitor or mobile phone!?!? Wow options and versatility

 

[Ketch Rossi]

I sure hope so. I missed out on the helium troopers but there is absolutely no way I’ll miss out on a Komodo trooper if given the opportunity.... these specs even if not final are great news!!!

While I didn't missed out on the Helium Stormtrooper, I would say that finances and a shit of other circumstances forbid me to keep it since the start... Not this time around, Komodo will be with me to stay and it will have lots of little Brothers to keep company with

 

[Aaron Lochert]

While I love the bright color ideas (especially that Kodak yellow one), I would love to see Komodo available in some more muted, more military colors:

Cream:

Desert Tan:

Gunmetal:

OD Green:

And then of course to go with my Ti Hydrogen...

And then this one's just for me:

 

[Mendes Nabil]

Things are getting hot here..

Global shutter + 6k @40fps + R3D on such a tiny box at that price tag, that is special..
May i ask what had to be sacrificed in order to get global shutter? Dynamic range / compression?
Or did you guys just find a way to implement it without sacrificing anything?

Time for Graeme to work his magic now, i'm sure he's working hard at it, trying to get the perfect color science.
If i may Graeme, one word and one only, please make it "Organic", the more the technology advances the more we have this "plastic-videoish" look, the Sony Venice for example is pretty awful in that regards..
The problem is i think their point of reference, brands try to beat the newest and freshest toys of the concurrence, a dangerously wrong approach in my opinion.
Look at the Red one Mx, the most filmic Red camera ever and probably the most filmic digital camera, the point of reference was film and like Guillermo Del Toro once said:
"We can only puke what we ingurgitate".

Please watch back the greatest films of our history, those with magic cinematography, like :
Blade runner 1982, Road to perdition, Fight club, Seven, Days of heaven, Children of men, Heat, just to name a few..
Make it alive, full of soul and character please, color and texture wise, i can't wait to see what you're coming up with.

Salute to all the Red team

 

[paulcurtis]

This is all looking extremely cool. Global shutter - for real or a really fast read out speed? I'd always understood that GS is a trade off between dynamic range - so maybe that's why it is a setting (otherwise there's no reason not to have it on all the time, why would anyone actually want rolling?)

There are so many situations where clamping a camera to something can't be done because of RS.

Very much looking forward to this...

cheers
Paul

 

[Daniel Porto]

Variable frame rate to capture “handcrank” looking images would be awesome. Don’t think there is a digital cam that does that

 

[Fahnon Bennett]

Well, if the image quality is substandard why not just use a GoPro? I think the whole point is to have a smaller camera that matches perfectly with footage from its larger siblings. Apparently Komodo already lacks high frame rates. It’s likely it will also lack the expansion options of the larger models.

I get what your point is, but there’s a huge gulf between “not the same image quality of other REDs”, and “substandard image quality comparable to a gopro”. Most cameras that exist don’t have the image quality of a RED, which is why I bought one.

So if this thing can do 6k with a global shutter and AF for (presumably) half the price of Dragon X, it seems like the Komodo is clearly a better buy in a lot of ways for a lot of people. I’m assuming there will be a major downside to the cameras that are intended to be A cameras, but not sure yet.

Can’t remember and it’s been a lot of pages: is Komodo confirmed to have an s35 sensor size?

 

[Christoffer Glans]

Speaking of... Remember Raven was originally intended to be a drone camera. Hence the name, and the built in mount to save weight and keep the cost as low as possible. High end productions used Ravens as they were supposed to, as well as crash cameras and D,E,F,G cameras etc, but Raven very quickly also became an awesome A camera for indies, mostly because of the price point and the incredible images from it. I know komodo will likely follow the same path... I'm just telling you from a lineup perspective what the intention is, so people have reasonable expectations.

Komodo has advantages over our other cameras, price, size, weight, things the sensor does, etc. but it's also limited compared to our other cameras in things like frame rates, inputs and outputs, modularity, etc.

I get the lineup point of view, but I still think of Komodo as its own camera. If we compare it to the sense of a complete camera like the Ranger series and a modular system like the DSMC 1 and 2, it's still very much its own thing, aimed at being small in scale. What I mean is, if we just settle Komodo as its own thing, we open up for a new lineup of small Red cameras, with improvements in the future, side-gear, trade-in upgrades, etc. Its easier to sell a camera that's aimed to be its own kind of camera, while on the business side of owners, there's no confusion among clients when telling them the camera used will be a Komodo. Bottom line is that I think the notion of branding Komodo as an auxiliary or complementary camera is more hurting than just underlining that it is its own thing from the get-go, just like Raven has become.

This camera will be the go-to option for many indie filmmakers, small production companies and even high-end youtube channels who also do live broadcasts, I don't think you need to speculate much on that. I think it will be even more people who use it like that than there are productions using it as gimbal and crash cams.

You should be good then. Pretty safe to say after beating on the stormtrooper all day today you can expect full sensor 6k 40fps, 6k WS @ 50fps. Which means 4k @60fps shouldn't be a problem, but I have not actually tested that yet. And yes, that's all in global shutter mode.

Good to finally hear word on this :thumbup1: but it also calls for more questions; when you say "expect" 6K 40fps, does that mean there's a chance it might get increased? And when you say "global shutter mode", does that imply as I speculated before, there to be a rolling shutter and global shutter mode? If so, could we get more fps out of the camera if we go into rolling shutter mode? If we want a slight push to 6K 50 fps at FF?

 

[Alex Stolpakov]

Will RF mount allow with adapter any Pl lenses ? Sometimes there are some play with adapters as PL lenses are heavy and what about back focus ? Or it will be "professional" PL version of KOMODO ?

 

[Han Vogen]

Can’t remember and it’s been a lot of pages: is Komodo confirmed to have an s35 sensor size?

S35 or more is the current consensus.

 

[Björn Benckert]

Will RF mount allow with adapter any Pl lenses ? Sometimes there are some play with adapters as PL lenses are heavy and what about back focus ? Or it will be "professional" PL version of KOMODO ?

Good adapters are usually easy to shim. And good PL adapters likely also come with rod mounts allowing the lens, dowtail etc attach to the adapter and not put weight on the actual camera.

So if you would use a big Optimo zoom or such then the camera could just mount more or less a lens cap in the rear of the lens.

 

[jordan levy]

yeah sorry crappy BW filter on my phone... The display is full color. That said the the UI ( at least the part showing in that image) is all pretty much monochrome minus some red outlines around the selections. It obviously gets really colorful when you get the exposure tools and general main screen etc, and of course when you have the actual viewing feed on there.

Not having to have another monitor on there for framing up and a 4k feed out is everything for me with all these big comedy specials i do now, especially for netflix, they hate seeing cameras and the art of concealing them rigged in truss or built into production design winds up being the biggest headaches, this week they are building camo for a sony venice! thank you!!!