This, my friends, is a camera. Jim Janard over at Red has begun telling the world about his new modular camera system with its Mysterium-X sensor. There are a few upgrade paths for those who already own a RED ONE, the older generation including upgrading to the new sensor, trade in RED ONE for the price of an EPIC, or receive a sensor upgrade some time in the future. If the RED ONE costs $17,000 expect this one to be slightly more.

The kit can be used one of two ways – as a full-bore video camera like the original Scarlet or a DSLR. You take off most of the pieces of the video camera, for example, and then reconfigure them to make an SLR. Devin has been following these guys so I’ll let him tell you about it this afternoon but here are the images in all their glory.












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This rules so much!!!!
These are times of wonder. I am in awe.
I’m speechless. Now this is a camera System.
Here’s the forum:
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=21835&page=3
This is AWESOME. Now I just need $55k…..and did you *see* the size of those sensors? That’s face-meltingly huge! Makes IMAX look small…..
Thats a really impressive industrial design. Really impressive, a lot of thought went into making it work for the camera operator.
Who do I need to kill to get one of these things?!
I love the text “Specifications and Delivery Dates are subject to Drastic changes”. Hmmm…
Oh what the heck… sign me up!!
Wow… wow…
wow….
uh… yep, still speechless. Wow.
Amazingly modular system.
Is the 4K building block going to available in Scarlet or Epic form factors or is 4K only available in the Red One format?
The 28K Epic module would interface well with tiled video walls….setting aside the small “french door” effect from the bezels, 28K at 25 fps would be awesome.
where – and when – can you see and touch one of those in London ?
Sweet cameras. I want one.