Earlier this year, RED sent us their KOMODO-X camera for us to test. We didn’t expect much of a difference from the existing KOMODO that we tested in our lab in January 2021. But now, the time has finally come to put the KOMODO X to the test, and to our surprise, there are some interesting findings! Interested in hearing more? Then just keep reading! As mentioned above we tested the first generation KOMODO 6K camera in our lab here. Meanwhile RED has updated the sensor, image processing, and audio hardware of this camera which led to a big increase in framerates (e.g. 4K120 frames per second are now possible) and according to RED’s website, also to an increase in dynamic range performance. Time to test these claims, right? If you are not familiar with how we test dynamic range, I suggest reading this article first. Also, again I want to thank my dear colleague Florian who helped me shoot this test. This is a global shutter camera, so no rolling shutter test here ;-). Hence we start with the dynamic range. The RED KOMODO-X in our CineD Lab. Image credit: CineD Dynamic Range of the RED KOMODO-X at ISO800 As we have seen earlier on the RED RAPTOR VV and RAPTOR-X cameras, RED does not provide a “native” ISO of the sensor, and in REDCODE RAW ISO can be changed in post. So we used ISO800 as the middle ground to shoot our Xyla21 chart (camera firmware version is 1.1.1). Here...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 25 July, 2024