Red Raven free upgrade: 4.5k now, larger sensor

"After a long night discussion with Jim Jannard, in a post on RED User Jarred Land announced that the Raven gets an essential sensor upgrade at no extra cost to customers. The new sensor size will be 23.04mm x 10.8mm providing an expanded horizontal sensor area with the frame height remaining the same. This means that the Red RAVEN is now officially a 4.5K camera "

http://www.4kshooters.net/2015/10/23/red-raven-is-now-officially-4-5k-camera/

With cinematic lighting and professional makeup artists, costume designers, props and some smoke machines you can make nearly any camera look good… Were they really challenging the Raven ? I hope not!

@nomad that is true, which begs the question: why don't other companies do the same thing. They try but never seem to have the same level of production talent.

For a company that relies on preorders and direct sales as their sales model this type of slick polished video makes since. For others it is less/not important as they have a strong channel the will help sell their new product offering.

Personally, I don't trust these prerelease videos as representative of the way I shoot or post process. I do trust the community at large to show what the camera can do in the hands of the every man with the common tools and work flows I have access to.

My main discision making tool is the comparison videos after the product is released. I'm not Red's target audience because I'm not a Red believer who buys on spec and slick promo videos. That said, if it is truly a better product solution (including post processing requirements) and a reasonable value as compared to the competition, I am all in (once it is vetted by the community).

I am not the droid Red is looking for...

Wow.. The Arri Alexa highlight recovery is really special it certainly outshines the Red Weapon & Dragon. Didn't think there would be such a difference.

http://www.focus-numerique.com/test-3414/camescope-red-raven-caracteristique-1.html

Compression test