RED Introduces ‘Helium’, a New 8K 35mm Sensor for the Weapon & Epic-W1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHave you seen the Dragon RED built for Michael Bay? Though it has a lime-green custom housing, what’s most impressive about it is what is on the inside.
RED Digital Cinema’s CEO Jarred Land and Chief Design Officer Matthew Tremblay have announced a new sensor line that might get RED fans excited. Dubbed Helium, the first in the line is an 8K Super 35mm sensor, which has 3.65 micron pixels. It differs from RED’s current 8K VistaVision sensor in size; according to cinema5D:
To squeeze 8K into a smaller super 35mm chip necessitates new (smaller, denser) pixels. I’ve been told that smaller does not mean any compromise in imaging performance, quite the opposite, these are “better” pixels.Cinematographer Phil Holland shared a graphic on the RedUser forum that illustrates how the Helium sensor compares to those in other RED cameras.
Land says that the Weapon Magnesium will be updated with the new Helium sensor, and their new Epic-W will come equipped with it. And as previously mentioned, a Dragon has already been custom built for Michael Bay for his work on Transformers: The Last Knight containing the new sensor.
via: No Film School
Images Credit: Red Digital Cinema
