RED ‘HELIUM’ 8K SENSOR

Red introduces new sensor named ‘Helium’ for RED WEAPON and SCARLET-W.

This new sensor size is small compared to Red’s 8K Dragon Vista Vision Sensor
RED has announced that it will be introducing a new 8K sensor that it is calling Helium. At 29.9×15.77mm the new sensor is much smaller than the current 8K Dragon sensor, which measures 40.96×21.6mm, but both sensors have 8192×4320 pixels.

The attraction of the new Helium sensor is that a wider range of lenses will provide sufficient coverage for its shorter diagonal, even though it is slightly larger than the standard Super 35mm format.  The Helium is designed to operate in the same Weapon camera, but the company’s CEO Jarred Land also let on that a new camera, the Epic-W, will also come with the new sensor.

The announcement was made in a casual way on the Red User forum

The main advantage would be much wider lenses can be used without sacrificing resolution compared with its earlier Super 35mm formats!

8K Red Weapon camera will be available with both the VistaVision-sized Dragon sensor, first announced last year, and now with the smaller Helium sensor.

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CJ Rajkumar
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