RED KOMODO 6K: Tantalizing New Details Emerge

The cinema community has been abuzz with rumors concerning the latest from RED Digital Cinema- the RED Komodo 6K. Filmmakers and creators of high quality film/video have been speculating on the new gear.

The Komodo 6K is expected to ship sometime in early 2020, at a price point in the $5,000-$6,000 range. Simply put, this is the highest anticipated cinema camera of the year- already.

“You don’t need to fear the crop factor like you did with Raven or (black magic 6k or the Z2 6k ) and the other ‘smaller’ s35 sensors… Komodo has a whole new pixel remember and the physical sensor is much wider than all of those, 27.03mm x 14.25mm. So if you do need to crop to get to where you need to go, you are starting with much more width to get there which will be kinder to your optics.”

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“What you get with Komodo 6K is as Super 35mm Plus format size (wider) that is slightly larger than Dragon/Monstro at 5K FF format/resolution, slightly smaller than both of those in 5.5K FF. Interesting stuff. When I was filming mainly on Dragon 6K (all the stuff I shot for Absolut, BMW, Sharp, etc) I was using 5.5K FF as the main format as the general image circle for S35 lenses was/is designed around the typical spec for S35 4-perf. Komodo kinda lives in there. So glass-wise, you can use whatever you want on it when it comes to larger format coverage, but S35-wise and APS-C or whatever you can put some really small glass on there.​”

Phil Holland, Cinematographer

Learn more about the Red Komodo in this article by Creativeplanetnetwork.com