 TECHNICALThe RED ONE camera is comprised of the Mysterium™ Super 35mm cine-sized sensor (see pictures for comparisons). The RED has a wide dynamic range and uses a proprietary 12-bit RAW wavelet compression known as REDCODE RAW. Although the RED provides 4520 x 2540 pixels of resolution at frame rates up to 30fps, it is actually quite minimal on levels of data use. The most important aspect of the RED camera is its ability to shoot at high frame rates that no other affordable camera can. It shoots 60fps in 3K mode and 120fps in 2K mode. The REDCODE comes in 3 different versions – 28, 36 and 42. This means recorded data rates are 28MB/sec, 36MB/sec and 42MB/sec respectively. This makes for very manageable file sizes and one hour of 4K footage may only require a little over 100GB of space. Data is recorded to a Compact Flash card, RAID drive or RAM-based storage system. The RED sports a Bayer-patterned CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) sensor. CMOS sensors have gained increased use since the 90s and are found in most high-end digital stills cameras, with increased use in top video cameras. As opposed to CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) technology, the CMOS sensor does not suffer from "smearing" or "blooming", and allows greater flexibility to “window” the sensor in order to achieve higher frame rates. Specifications
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