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The Competition Never Sleeps
Well-known competitors such as Canon, Panasonic, Blackmagic and all the other colleagues already have their own models with 24mm sensor width in their ranges, and not too few of them.
RED itself has had the RED RAVEN Camera Kit in its range for some time as an affordable entry point at around 15,000 dollars, but RED obviously still sees some market potential above that for the larger models with wider sensors.
While the RAVEN is equipped with a 23mm-wide 4.5K Dragon sensor (4608 x 2160 PixelPixel, max. 120 fps in 4.5K Full Format), the new Dragon-X Brain now comes with a 25.6mm-wide DRAGON X sensor (5120 x 2700 PixelPixel, max. 96 fps in 5K Full FormatFormat, max. 120 fps in 5K 2.4:1).
As with Raven, Helium and Gemini, the dynamic range is specified at more than 16.5 stops. As a brain alone, the RED DRAGON-X costs around 15,000 dollars, but for newcomers to the DSMC2 system, RED has put together a ready-to-shoot KIT, as it did with the RAVEN, that goes over the counter for 20,000 dollars. It contains:
- The DRAGON-X 5K S35 BRAIN with Canon Lens Mount
- The DSMC2 RED 4.7-inch touch display
- The DSMC2 Outrigger Handle
- The DSMC2 V-Lock I/O Expander
- One RED MINI-MAG – 480GB
- Two IDX DUO C98 batteries with charger
- One RED MINI-MAG Reader
- One Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM Art lens
- One NANUK heavy-duty camera case
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