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V for VistaVision! The new V-Raptor means a large format 8K Red camera is more affordable than ever I f you’ve always yearned for a Red camera with large format VistaVision sensor – like so many high-end film productions employ – but the price cameras, the V-Raptor features an anti- aliasing filter to counter moiré, but unlike DSMC2 cameras, it isn’t user-changeable. The V-Raptor shows no sign of aliasing or magenta orb/dot pattern artefacts on skin.
has been out of your league, the V-Raptor is big news. It’s a sub-£20,000 cinema camera that captures incredible high frame rates in a compact body, with some rather unique features. That’s serious money, but considering what it can do and the market it’s aimed at, the price is incredible – certainly next to contemporaries such as the Red Ranger Monstro, which costs nearly double. We’ve had a Stormtrooper V-Raptor for a while now, and have managed to shoot a range of different projects with it. Although our RAIDs haven’t appreciated the massive data increase filming in 8K. We’ve shot studio B-roll with it – plus a ton of creative stuff with an array of different lenses – but haven’t had the DSMC3 monitor. This is a key accessory, unless you have a Cine 7 or Indie 7, with which the camera can now be controlled,
The shutter is a conventional rolling type, unlike the Komodo with its global shutter. Red claims the V-Raptor sensor has half the readout speed of the Monstro at just 8ms. That’s incredibly low for a large sensor, and we found it hard to reproduce any rolling shutter artefacts. The V-Raptor features a cooling system with a huge heat sink, decent-sized fan and thermoelectric exchanger – to keep the sensor at a constant temperature – along with decent cooling vents. Since we started shooting with the camera, Red released a new de-Bayer firmware for decoding R3D Raw files, which has improved the image drastically. The files look much cleaner, with far fewer de-Bayer artefacts. With the V-Raptor absent of a dual base ISO sensor, it limits chroma noise
too. We used the SmallHD Cine 7 as our primary monitor. JUST PURR-FECT The Red is at home with small RF lenses to heavyweights (top). The files can be easily graded (above) That glorious sensor The all-new sensor is the same size as the Monstro at 40.96x21.60mm, giving it an effective pixel count of 8192x4320 – roughly 35 megapixels. Red claims 17+ stops of dynamic range, which is the same as the Monstro. The default ISO is 800, with a range of 250-12,800. Like Red’s previous
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