New $17K HD++ Camcorder Does 4K Frames

[Soopafresh]

How do you edit the stuff once you've captured it ?

http://www.red.com/product/

[edDV]

hmm, "RENDERS OBSOLESCENCE OBSOLETE"
Mission Viejo, Orange County, CA
Who are there guys? And why only $17,500?
These guys need some marketing help if they are real.

http://www.dvguru.com/2006/04/24/red-one-camera-announced-at-nab/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RED_Digital_Camera_Company

OK: Here is the who. Next is the what. When has changed from April to 4th quarter '06.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jannard

[redwudz]

"10 times cheaper than its comparable 4K competitor Dalsa". That should shake things up if they can pull it off and deliver the product. Being able to use present 35MM film camera lenses would also seem to be a big plus.

[edDV]

"10 times cheaper than its comparable 4K competitor Dalsa". That should shake things up if they can pull it off and deliver the product. Being able to use present 35MM film camera lenses would also seem to be a big plus.

True but people don't buy on price. Maybe he sees an Indie WannaBee market. That and manufacturing cost would need to be low. This is only a camera, you still need a $90K+ HDCAM SR deck or some other way to record. Data rate maybe could be handled by a portable RAID. Need to think that one through. Back up the disk truck.


Here is a similar Dalsa unit that rents for $3K/day
http://www.dalsa.com/dc/origin/dc_design.asp


Hmm,

4Kx2K is 402 MB/sec (3216 Mb/sec) for raw stream
4Kx4K would be 804 MB/sec (6432 Mb/sec)

Processed 16bit RGB stream is

4Kx2K 1208 MB/sec
4Kx4K 2416 MB/sec

OK Rapter guys, figure out how big that RAID needs to be. Two and a half GB/sec
But then again, it only needs to be realtime during capture and in compressed form for screening.