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KOMODO....

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Anything that's mostly there - (global shutterwise) - and holds to RED's philosophy sounds incredibly useful / what the doctor ordered.

So if it's all the way there then that's even more amazing.

I remember distinctly years ago when Jim Jannard was rolling out a very large and grand road-map (Here on Reduser) that the question of Global shutter was thrown at him (I think by me), and he replied as far as I can remember (without being a false memory), that He'd "Eat his hat" (kind of thing) if a Globally Shuttered RED ever came out or he'd never see the kind while he's alive.

Super cool that that HAS transpired AND for a technical interface between full digital workflow and CG/CGI workflows too. Possibility of full spatial integration to very high precisions and accuracies seamlessly.

Looks like the body can support extra engineering and precision engineered reference surfaces etc. I.e. ways to grab hold of the thing in a very solid / rigid way.

It's possible RED may sell these (KOMODO)* by the truck load. :cool:

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* What is the Plural of KOMODO ? Komodo or KOMODOS ?
 
David Rasberry said:
For the interview gigs an external recorder/monitor with SSD would be a better solution than adding the cost of same to Komodo to do it internally IMO. But we don't know what Komodo supports, if anything, other than RAW yet. Those DI codecs (except for Cineform) cost money to license too.
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How did you came up this with, as they have to be seated or what ever still, maybe they are walking all the time . With your logic DMS2 ProRes also stupid as "external recorder/monitor with SSD would be a better solution".
 
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How did you came up as they have to seated or what ever still, maybe they are walking all the time . With your logic DMS2 ProRes also stupid as "external recorder/monitor with SSD would be a better solution".
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What’s the difference between a DSMC sporting a camera top monitor recording internally vs a camera top monitor/ recorder ( or smartphone) on Komodo recording externally? Especially if that reduces the cost of the camera by more than the cost of a recorder.
 
David Rasberry said:
What’s the difference between a DSMC sporting a camera top monitor recording internally vs a camera top monitor/ recorder ( or smartphone) on Komodo recording externally? Especially if that reduces the cost of the camera by more than the cost of a recorder.
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About cost you know nothing, so speculate at least with some detail about it.
Diffrence is in practice of shooting, do you have some? Did you ever shoot cinema camera vs photography camera with recorder?
 
All I know is I need to buy another RED and am on the fence about a 2nd Gemini, a Scarlet-W (again) or the Komodo. And it needs to be released soon LOL.
 
Eric Lange said:
* What is the Plural of KOMODO ? Komodo or KOMODOS ?
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Komodos because Komodoes sounds a bit off ;p
But I would go so far as calling them Komodo Cameras to avoid pluralising the Komodo.
 
1. I’m quite enraptured and can’t hide my excitement for Komodo. I'm looking forward to use it at the beginning with Zeiss Otus EF 28mm, 55mm, 85mm and R-EF Adapter with VR-ND. Does anybody have experience with those lenses with DSMC2?
2. As there's no penalty for DR, will there be one for Lowlight?
3. Can I assume that OLPF's won't take part of Komodo?
 
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Alex Stolpakov said:
About cost you know nothing, so speculate at least with some detail about it.
Diffrence is in practice of shooting, do you have some? Did you ever shoot cinema camera vs photography camera with recorder?
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I shoot a Digital Bolex, have for five years now. S16 sized global shutter CCD 2k DCI format uncompressed CDNG raw only camera. Decided to go raw only after playing with an early Red One, but couldn't afford a Red after the original 2/3" 3k for $3k Scarlet morphed into the $10k+ S35 Scarlet. For me it is a personal creative camera, not a commercial production tool.
I'm a video and audio systems engineer by trade and was peripherally involved along with a handful of others in some of the engineering decisions for the Bolex. One of those was whether to compromise the raw image quality to add video recording capability within the budget and hardware limitations of the design. We decided to optimize the processing for best possible raw image quality. There is an HDMI monitor output, but the encoder chip used for it is not high enough quality to be useful for externally recording video.
 
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I shoot a Digital Bolex, have for five years now. S16 sized global shutter CCD 2k DCI format uncompressed CDNG raw only camera. Decided to go raw only after playing with an early Red One, but couldn't afford a Red after the original 2/3" 3k for $3k Scarlet morphed into the $10k+ S35 Scarlet. For me it is a personal creative camera, not a commercial production tool.
I'm a video and audio systems engineer by trade and was peripherally involved along with a handful of others in some of the engineering decisions for the Bolex. One of those was whether to compromise the raw image quality to add video recording capability within the budget and hardware limitations of the design. We decided to optimize the processing for best possible raw image quality. There is an HDMI monitor output, but the encoder chip used for it is not high enough quality to be useful for externally recording video.
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Side note here : IF you don't like your Digital Bolex anymore and want to sell it at a fair price (meaning : not like retro video games XD) if I have the cash ready then please think of me !
(I am pretty sure, reading your post, that it won't happen and good for you man. Much love for footage from that camera)
 
I hope to see GDU come out with Canon RF 35mm Macro f/1.8!

Not sure how it performs on video yet, but his is a very sharp little lens with fantastic Macro capabilities.
Could be a perfect first lens for the Komodo, especially if Armored by GDU!

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Ketch Rossi said:
I hope to see GDU come out with Canon RF 35mm Macro f/1.8!

Not sure how it performs on video yet, but his is a very sharp little lens with fantastic Macro capabilities.
Could be a perfect first lens for the Komodo, especially if Armored by GDU!

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Should be a great gimbal lens, very lightweight and short so smaller CG offset. It is designed to cover DSLR full Frame (36x24) and testing shows that in the center it is as good as sigma art 35 and Canon EF 35mm L lens with slightly lower performance in edge/corner performance. Since Komodo is basically an APS-C size sensor those slight performance degradations should be mitigated as they are outside of the Komodo frame.
 
Zakaree Sandberg said:
bummer
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Somewhere between expectation and rumor is reality and Komodo will land squarely there. There very much will be reason to own RED's camera offerings that are priced 3X or more the cost of Komodo.

Meanwhile in there is what Komodo actually is and what it does bring to the party. A lot of new things and in a small very affordable package apparently built like a tank.
 
Happy New Year!!!
From Greece :)
 
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