Low light & VFR (ie 36fps, 44, 48, etc.)

[Daniel Cegla]

What should we expect for lowlight capabilities on the Raven VS say the Sony A7s?

Will there be Variable frame rate options for selecting speeds at frame rates such as 36, 44, 48, 72, 96, etc. like Panasonic offers?

 

[Maik Müller]

What should we expect for lowlight capabilities on the Raven VS say the Sony A7s?

The A7S is a beast in lowlight, but besides the great sensor it also archives this by tricks and lots of internal processsing. To be honest, while the A7SII can do some things like seeing in the dark, i'm not really convinced by most of such extreme lowlight-footage coming from it.

To get a feeling about what RAVEN can do, look at all the RED cameras with Dragon Sensors and Standard-OLPF, especially Weapon and Scarlet-W, as RAVEN is a DSMC2-camera.

Will there be Variable frame rate options for selecting speeds at frame rates such as 36, 44, 48, 72, 96, etc. like Panasonic offers?

Much better, you got the ultimate freedom with RED. You can make it shoot whatever FPS you want, until you hit the maximum of course. There are presets and if those aren't enough you can easily go to the extended menu and get even more specfic and type in the numbers by yourself.

 

[Daniel Cegla]

Thank you Maik! Good points. VFR is huge for me!

As for lowlight, very fair, and accurate. I will check out info on the Dragon sensor. Any particularly good links to this that I might miss? Also, where roughly would you rate it? Safe to assume the Raven lowlight is going to beat the Panasonic Varicam and it's dual ISO system?

 

[Maik Müller]

One of the best links for DRAGON/DSMC2-performance-tests is this: http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?137401-Phil-Holland-Weapon-Test
Most of that will probably the same or real close on RAVEN.

I have a hard time rating a camera with just a number. It all depends on so many things. My Dragon/Scarlet can shoot great images way above 800. DSMC2 has some nice improvements too as you might have seen in the talks about Weapon and Scarlet-W.

No idea about how it compares to the Pana, their dual iso sounds interesting, if it's really native sensor-tech and not just some internal amplifying/post-processing... But honestly, it's not my camera for many reasons, even if their 5000-mode catches more light than Dragon.

And keep in mind, low-light and no-light are two very different things.

 

[Jason Bodnar]

Here is just the match test https://vimeo.com/82944199 to me ISO 5000 with some noise reduction is pretty telling that you can go above 800 Obviously all based on project an desired look but you will not need 18k HMI on every shoot, practical lighting could easily be used if the scene/mood calls for it.