The RED KOMODO 6K is the latest breakthrough product in RED’s long line of innovative image capture technology. The newest entrant into the RED lineup is a compact and highly powerful cinema camera. It features RED’s cinema grade image quality, color science and sensor technology into a portable form factor so users can take it anywhere and adapt it to any shooting scenario.
One of the most talked about upcoming products in the cinematography and production world this year has been the RED Komodo 6K. And it’s finally on the way.
The RED Komodo 6K was designed for special use applications. The Komado 6K is a smaller option for filmmakers that is great hand-held shooting or mounting. Cinematographer Tim Daust shot “Sunset Field” using the RED Komodo 6K on his Drone.
More and more details regarding the long-awaited and highly anticipated RED Komodo 6K camera emerged earlier today. The upcoming camera should be available soon in custom colors and limited quantities starting at $6,000.
William Rexer: There are 10 episodes and they averaged about 12 days per episode. Fred Elmes shot the pilot. He started slightly before we began the series. Due to scheduling issues, we were all working at the same time. Essentially, we were completing episode eight as the pilot was finishing production. It wasn’t like a traditional show where the pilot was done first, analyzed as to what worked and didn’t work, and then the individual episodes began. Instead, it was all happening at once. Most of HUNTERS was shot in the New York area. Ten days were done in Budapest. We finished shooting last March.
Philip Grossman is an adventure documentarian. He’s traveled the globe to the most inhospitable locations including Chernobyl (nearly a dozen times), Baikonur Cosmodrome and Semipalatinsk the home of the former USSR’s nuclear bomb testing program. Philip trusts the RED camera technology to deliver motion and large panoramic stills capture.
“We tried hard to tell the story from Sheeran’s perspective and to give the audience a feeling of their own memories and lives,” Prieto explains. “Having read the script and the book, it felt to me that representing the passage of time would be more appropriate for the texture of motion picture film negative. Scorsese referenced the patina of home movies, but he specifically didn’t want it to look like Super 8 or 16mm, so that started the whole process of researching how to achieve a feeling of memory.”
RED and Apple have completed METAL GPU accelerated R3D support in the SDK that will be rolled out to developers over the next 24 hours.
The RED Komodo is a highly anticipated release from RED, and it finally seems to be close to release. Cinema5d.com recently released a great article on the dimensional drawings posted […]
RED has been particularly coy about the specs for its newest camera, the RED KOMODO, which is expected to ship sometime in early 2020 with a surprisingly affordable price tag rumored to be somewhere in the $5,000-$6,000 range. Easily one of the most highly anticipated digital cinema cameras of the year, RED has continued to tease users about the KOMODO, trickling out tantalizing new details in the REDUSER forum and on Instagram.