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