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the intricacies of the RED product line so streamlining it made sense for us, whether it does for existing customers, we’re not sure. If you haven’t heard, here’s the topline: there will be one DSMC2 camera BRAIN with three sensor options: MONSTRO 8K VV, HELIUM 8K S35 and GEMINI 5K S35. The single DSMC2 camera BRAIN includes high-end frame rates and data rates regardless of the sensor chosen. The great news is that this streamlined approach will result in a price reduction compared to RED’s previous camera line-up. Finally, Sony was obviously ready for its Avatar sequels announcement as some of the indigenous folks from Pandora were available for press calls. James Cameron had designed a remote camera system based on the Venice full-frame camera as he has done with camera systems before. Sony also revealed details of Venice firmware v2 with, amongst other features, Dual base ISO – with 15+ stops of exposure latitude supporting high base ISO of 2500 in addition to the existing ISO 500; a selection of off-speed fps in individual frame increments; several imager modes, 25p in 6K Full-Frame, 25p in 4K 4:3 Anamorphic, 6K 17:9, 1.85:1 and 4K 6:5 Anamorphic and now users can remove the PL mount and use a wide assortment of native E-mount lenses.
LEFT Art in motion, Panavision’s art installation took shape over the Expo’s two days. ABOVE The newly created Panavision DXL-M accessory kit, designed to work with RED’s DSMC2 camera.
and saw how useful it would be for its students. You could definitely see this working for a particular scene that needs careful rehearsal, for instance; everyone becomes a player from their own workstation including the director. You could see producers seeing this as a possible budget saving when costing out days on set. In Panavision ’s backyard you’d expect a big showing and you wouldn’t have been disappointed with product launches, ‘merch’ competitions and even an art installation. Four new large-format lens sets were on display. Primo X is the first cinema lens range specially designed for use on drones and gimbals. They are fully sealed, weatherproof and counterbalanced to be aerodynamic and come in two primes – 14mm (T3.1) and 24mm (T1.6) – and one 24-70mm zoom (T2.8), and they’ll be available next year. H Series is a traditionally designed spherical lens set created with vintage glass and coating. These lenses offer slightly elevated blacks for softer contrast. Also available next year, Ultra Vista is a series of large-format anamorphic optics. Using a custom 1.6x squeeze, Ultra Vista covers the full height of the 8K sensor in the DXL and presents an ultra-widescreen 2.76:1 aspect
ratio along. And finally, PanaSpeed is a large-format update of the classic Primo look. Panavision also showed the newly created DXL-M accessory kit, designed to work with RED DSMC2 cameras. DXL-M brings the popular features of DXL to RED MONSTRO, GEMINI and HELIUM sensors, such as the DXL menu system, LiColor2, motorised lenses, wireless time code (ACN) and the Primo HDR viewfinder. It’ll be available in Q4. Talking about RED , the company’s announcement pre Cine Gear certainly took people by surprise. We always wondered about
BELOW LEFT RED’s DSMC2 BRAIN with the HELIUM 8K S35 sensor, one of the three now available with the BRAIN as part of the new streamlining. BELOW RIGHT Far from feeling blue, Sony announced Avatar sequels.
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