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RED Announces Dragon-X, Adding 5K Super35mm to DSMC2 Line Up

RED Announces Dragon-X, Adding 5K Super35mm to DSMC2 Line Up

By Jim Bask 0 Comment December 7, 2018

From cinema5d.com

…The RED cinema camera line up, from the outside has always been quite a confusing one to follow.

When the company announced a unification earlier in the year, we wrote a layman’s terms articleexplaining the formalisation to just 3 camera bodies.

RED has just announced a 4th body, The RED Dragon-X DSMC2.

How does it fit in?

Sticking to our simplistic overview of the REDs camera bodies, the new Dragon-X is the “5K Super35mm one”, with a sensor measuring 25.6 mm x 13.5 mm (Diagonal: 28.9 mm) and max resolution of 5120X2700.

RED bill it as the “work horse”, and rightfully so. It shares a lot of similarities to the Scarlet-W (same sensor size and resolution), to some this will be the most production-friendly RED yet (without getting specialist in Ks and lowlight) resolving a snip over 4K at Super35mm…read more