I first heard about this camera during the Adelaide Film Festival domefest event earlier this year, and yesterday attended a seminar on current 2k-4k video recording technologies, including hands-on on a few of these cameras, such as the tiny SI2k, as well as the Red One.
For those that don’t know, the Red One camera is a 4000×2000 pixel video camera that records in Raw, like professional DSLR’s do for photos. It records up to 30fps at that resolution, but can record at a higher frame rate at lower resolutions (120fps at 2k from memory).
The digital workflow seems simple enough, and the resulting footage from it is absolutely breathtaking. RED’s latest 35mm Film Demo Reel was decidedly jaw dropping to say the least. I’d love some proper testing time with wide fisheye lenses for fulldome / regular cinema presentation.