Just How Impressive is the RED Epic's Resolution?

Rob Williams

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There are cameras, and then there are freaking big cameras. Who better to deliver such a freaking big camera than RED? The company first exploded onto the scene last year when they released their RED ONE 4K camera, one that's capable of capturing RAW video at a staggering 12 megapixel resolution... one that is so high, no TV on the market could display its video in raw form.

Yesterday, the company unveiled their Epic 5K and Scarlet 3K models, due out in early 2009, and released with them a resolution comparison chart, in case there was any doubt about just how ridiculous the resolution was. While the wimpy 2 megapixel 1080p resolution takes up the entire dark gray area, the 5K (~15 megapixel?) Epic is truly unparallelled.

I think "Epic" is appropriate.

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You can see how basically it would take seven or eight of the newest 1080p hi-def TVs to show an entire 5K image, and even then it wouldn’t be the whole thing because Red shoots to a special raw format with more color depth than your TV can display.

Source: CrunchGear
 

Kougar

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Yeah, we all need an outdoor movie screen in our backyards to sort and edit our photos... :D
 

Merlin

The Tech Wizard
Hmmmm I thought there was only one RAW format.
In my Fuji I shoot Raw at 12 mb for each image.
With a 1 gig mem card
I shoot big files and reduce to fit...rather than shooting small and enlarging ( of course you loose resolution )
And no jpg images because of the color aboration.
So, I wonder again what special RAW format..

Have to investigate this one.

:techgage::techgage: Merlin :techgage::techgage:
 
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Rob Williams

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RAW simply means "lossless" and the actual format can vary between camera to camera. RAW file extensions will always be different depending on the make, as well.

Haha, and grats on 1K!
 
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