RED Novice - Two Questions About Scarlet-X and Dragon Sensor

[John Bellari]

True, but how do you know that the Dragon version of Scarlet is going to cost the same as Scarlet-X? I hope it will, but, I'm just thinking of the possibilities...

I'm not meaning that about future pricing...

The Dragon Scarlet-X would be significantly higher in price than today's Scarlet-X, if it's going to have better data rates
and world-class leading sensor performance according to Jim's current estimates...

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Maybe Dragon specs could look as a custom made sensor design pretty close to this one:

Tower Jazzs advanced CIS technology powers CMOSIS new 300 frames per second 12 Megapixel Global


05 Nov 2010

ANTWERP, Belgium and MIGDAL HA’EMEK, Israel, November 4, 2010

CMOSIS, a leading independent developer and supplier of high end CMOS image sensors for professional imaging applications,
and TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader,
today announced CMOSIS will add a new member to its CMV CMOS image sensor family at VISION 2010: the 12-megapixel CMV12000.
The off-the-shelf image sensor is manufactured in TowerJazz’s Fab-2 in Migdal Haemek, using its advanced 0.18 µm specialty CIS process.
The sensor features 5.5 x 5.5 µm pixels laid out in a high-resolution 4096 x 3072 matrix resembling the APS-C format.
CMV12000 offers high sensitivity and low noise, global shutter and a frame rate of 300 fps which provides best in-class performance.

The new CMOS sensor is perfectly suited for a broad range of industrial, movie and TV, traffic monitoring and motion control applications.

CMV12000 offers a dynamic range of 60 dB, extendable to 90 dB through several HDR (high dynamic range) operation modes.
The sensor pixels have a very low parasitic light sensitivity (1:50,000) enabling high efficiency global shutter operation,
which allows the sensor to capture extreme fast moving scenes without image distortion. One of the unique features of CMV12000 is the novel pixel structure,
which combines pipelined global shutter operation with correlated double sampling (CDS).
This technique, pioneered by CMOSIS, yields an unprecedented low noise level below 13 e- and a full well charge of 13,500 electrons.

The global shutter CDS also significantly reduces the sensor matrix's fixed pattern noise (FPN) for better image quality.

CMV12000’s on-chip A/D converter can be operated at 8-bit, 10-bit or 12-bit resolution. In the faster 10-bit mode, 300 full frames per second are acquired.
At 12-bit, CMV12000 still realizes a frame rate of 180 fps. The sensor's advanced architecture allows for row windowing and row sub-sampling.
Up to 32 separate partial windows can be defined for an accelerated readout. Averaging several pixels raises these frame rates and increases the dynamic range.

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[Gary Stone]

On a final note ... I still wish Scarlet was painted scarlet instead of gray. That would have kicked ass. If I ever do buy a Scarlet I'm gonna ask Red if I can paint my chassis some sort of automotive red.

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want my camera to be any color that is that easy to see in reflections. I wish Scarlet was black for this reason.

 

[PC Greene]

On a final note ... I still wish Scarlet was painted scarlet instead of gray. That would have kicked ass. If I ever do buy a Scarlet I'm gonna ask Red if I can paint my chassis some sort of automotive red.

That would have indeed been awesome. Let me know how that goes lol

 

[Alexander Ibrahim]

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want my camera to be any color that is that easy to see in reflections. I wish Scarlet was black for this reason.

Well that seems sensible of course ... but black reflects too ... its just harder to see. Its just awesome when you have that slow dolly push and then something blocks a reflection that was there.

Also, if the camera is reflecting ... then the AC's hand and my head are also reflecting and so on.

Finally, if your camera is in the movie ... you officially suck. (And yeah, I've done that. That's how you learn)

I've come to prefer a more obvious reflection, so it gets noticed faster and thus dealt with faster. If I am consciously placing something in a place where it may reflect ... well duvetyne to the rescue!