RED RANGER – A NEW CAMERA

Jun 04 2019

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Red digital cinema camera which is a leading Digital cinema camera manufacturer for more than a decade in the film Industry kept introducing its camera models with each new variant it had better features and performance than previous models. RED now simplified its camera models categorized as  DSMC & DSMC 2.

Now a new premium camera model named RED RANGER is a camera which is termed as All in One camera that suits to all needs like a studio production to vigorous filming requirement.

Launch of RED RANGER event happened in Chennai 0n 4th June, this event hosted by Shashi Enterprises, Team RED INDIA  was energized by the presence of SICA President P.C.Sreeram who went through many aspects of the New camera and also came with some important suggestion regarding OLED viewfinder.RED territory sales manager Taraka Srinivas welcomed SICA vice president Karthik Raja and Galaxy of cinematographers to name few …Manoj Paramahamsa, Ekhambaram, Mahesh Muthuswami, U.K.Senthilkumar, Wide Angle Ravishankaran,Sridhar Janarthanan, Illamparuthi, V.Armstrong,Vetrivel Mahendran, K.M.Bhaskaran, Sathyan Sooriyan and many members.

Coming to the features of this new vista vision model  is a custom built camera with 8k Monstro Sensor as DSMC 2 models this camera can record Red Raw, Prores, DNxHD files.

Large diameter fan provides improved thermal performance, more quieter camera operation, The Ranger can also record (to Red Mini-Mag SSDs) Redcode Raw simultaneously with ProRes or DNx codecs at write speeds up to 300 MB/sec. It also incorporates Red’s IPP2 color management and workflow.

Very important addition is Red Ranger has three SDI outputs — two of them are mirrored but the third is independent, meaning the camera can output two different looks simultaneously.

XLR audio input very much suitable for broadcast Industry and Live sound.

  • 8K resolution, Vista Vision, 46.31mm diag., 17+ stop dynamic range CMOS sensor
  • Frame rates up to 60fps in 8K & 300fps in 2K
  • Integrated PL lens mount (shimmed PL mount doesn’t require back focus) but it requires lenses to be cal liberated before shoot.

RED RANGER is a camera that will be available at RED camera rental houses.

RED RANGER is a vista vision full frame large format camera which is designed to be in compact size.

CJ Rajkumar

Author/Cinematographer

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