Is a new 8K RED camera coming? - Newsshooter

Jarred Land has posted an image on his Instagram account with the caption 2 more sleeps… This image appears to show the side of a yet-to-be-released camera.

The information on the LCD screen clearly shows that this camera is capable of recording 8K R3D files at up to 120fps. The current RED MONSTRO VV is only capable of recording 8192 x 4320 up to 60 fps.

Maybe RED will finally do away with the myriad of RAW compression ratios and just use LQ, MQ and HQ.

What is also interesting is that the recording is being done to a CFExpress card. Whether this is a CFExpress Type B or Type A card is not known.

The display also shows monitoring for four channels of audio, two of which look like they can be set to +48V. On the far left-hand side of the image, it appears to say SDI-2, so it would also be safe to assume that this camera has at least two SDI outputs.

RED KOMODO

This is most certainly some type of new camera and it does not appear to just be an 8K sensor inside a KOMODO body. The image that was released clearly shows that the controls are on the side of the camera and not on the top like the KOMODO.

RED RANGER MONSTRO 8K VV

The side LCD screen and controls look to be in a similar spot to where you would find them on a RED RANGER MONSTRO 8K VV. Whether or not this new camera will share a similar cube-style body shape to a KOMODO, or a larger body like the RED RANGER MONSTRO is unclear. What I would suspect is this will be the first new RED camera in the DSMC3 series.

There is no further information about anything else. We have no idea what type of mount it will use, whether it has a full frame, S35, or VV sensor, what batteries it will take, or what the other resolutions and frame rates will be. The display doesn’t show any in-built ND, which is something RED still hasn’t been able or willing to put into its cameras.

Like most RED teases and announcements you should expect that it won’t actually be available or shipping for quite some time.

Whether or not this is a MONSTRO replacement is also not known, but there is probably a very good chance that it may well be.

Thoughts

I think RED has slowly been trying to pivot its business strategy, especially when it comes to cameras. If you look at the KOMODO, it is by far RED’s most affordable camera. If I was to guess, I would say that whatever this new camera happens to be, that it won’t carry the hefty price of previous RED 8K cameras. This camera will have to be competitively priced to succeed, given there are quite a lot of cameras on the market now that are now capable of recording in 8K.

By Matthew Allard ACS

Matthew Allard is a multi-award-winning, ACS accredited freelance Director of Photography with 30 years' experience working in more than 50 countries around the world.

He is the Editor of Newsshooter.com and has been writing on the site since 2010.

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