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I wrote this at 5am this morning, been crazed at the show - over 100 RED orders so far last I heard. I've been released to publish the goodies:

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Red Camera: Basic Specs

So without further ado, here's the specs (which are of course, subject to change, as the camera is under development) on the Red One camera.

I'll obviously have much more to say and comment about it over the next few days, but let's start here:

CAMERA UNIT ITSELF

-VERY small, modular in design.
-the body will weigh less than 7 pounds without battery, lens, or recording module.
-the basic body ($17,500) includes HD-SDI, dual HD-SDI, HDMI, XLRs, and a bunch of other inputs and outputs.
-a port for RAW recording will be included, but you'll need to buy a separate recording module for recording RAW - it'll be some kind of high speed serial connection, that's still being decided

MYSTERIUM SENSOR
-single CMOS sensor
-as said before, it's 4520x2540 pixels
-29 square micron pixels - that's BIG, so a lot of light per pixel - helps signal/noise, helps light sensitivity, helps contrast, etc.
-11.5 megapixels
-24.4mm x 13.7mm (Super 35mm sized)
-dynamic range >66db, aka depending on lenses used, etc., somewhere in the range of 11-15 stops
-depth of field is equivalent to using Cine lenses
-it can be windowed down to 2K to use Super 16mm lenses and frame rates up to 120 fps

Acquitision formats:
4520p (4k+)
4K
2K
1080p
1080i
720p

Frame Rates:
Variable 1-60 fps for 2540p, 4K, 2K, 1080p, 1080i, 720p
Variable 1-120 fps for 2K, 1080p, 720p by windowing the sensor (using a smaller part in the middle) and using 16mm lenses
And of course, all the usual suspects - 23.98, 24.00, 25.0, 29.97, 30.0, 50.0, 59.94, etc.

RAW Output:
1-60 fps 2540p, 4K, 2K
1-120fps - windowed 2K (as described above)

Video output:
single and dual link HD-SDI
2K 4:4:4 RGB
1080p 4:4:4 RGB
1080p 4:2:2
1080i 4:2:2
720p 4:2:2

Digital Media Magazine:
-the digital mags will have FW400/800, USB 2.0, and eSATA ports, so you can plug it into your computer and just GO - copy the files off, or play from the mag.
RED-DRIVE will use hard disks in the 40-160 GB capacity ranges
REDFLASH will use flash memory in the 32-128 GB capacity ranges

REDCODE codec: will be a variable bitrate, wavelet based codec:
10 bit: 4:2:2 1080p/1080i/720p
10 bit log: 4:4:4 2K
(I'm GUESSING that it will be full raster, but I haven't seen that explicitly stated yet)

Audio: 4 channel uncompressed, 16/24 bit, 48 KHz minimum specs

Viewfinder: Built in high res LCD, with on screen display, focus assist, exposure assist

Construction: magnesium alloy (and I must say, the proto looks GORGEOUS, my first thought was "this is the alien spy sattelite")

ACCESSORIES:
RED-RAID - high speed serial interface, 2540p RAW data recorder, 12V D.C.
UHD Lenses - in development - RED 35mm and 16 PL mount Cine lenses. An optional B4 mounting kit will also ship at some point
UHD Viewfinder - SurroundViewTM (let's you see what's out of frame, like an optical viewfinder to see what's coming into frame, not what just did come into frame)
Camera Bages: Tripod or on shoulder use, powered accessory mount points (stainless steel mount points - very nice!)

Those are the basic specs.

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