Thursday, September 27, 2018

RED 16x8K 60fps Super 35mm Sensors VR Camera

RED introduces a camera for shooting immersive 360 degree VR content featuring 16 fish eye cameras with 8K 60fps Super 35mm Helium sensor each (active area 29.9 x 15.77mm2, 3.65um pixels).




Thanks to AL for the pointer!

5 comments:

  1. 8k means about 35MP, *60 fps= 2GPix/s, * 16 = very much... I did not know Smtpe 304m. Is this transmission standard really capable of this datarates? How are the receivers dealing with this datarate (or which receivers are used)?

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  2. Let me get this straight, by multiplying the numbers:
    16 cameras
    7680x4320 resolution
    2 bytes per pixel
    60 FPS
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    ~60 GByte/s uncompressed data rate

    They probably compress it. Keeping it raw but storing without bit boundaries would be 37GB/s. How much can you compress without loosing quality and having your scene remain sharp for post processing?

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  3. Great question. Compression before transmission might be problematic for any subsequent computer vision process (which they do for the 3D reconstruction). Maybe data is stored locally per-camera and then copied sequentially later?

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  4. Oh, and I just learned that the current price for a single RED helium 8K S35 sensor is around 25k...?

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  5. Apparently they use five external 12G SDI connections for "monitoring" and "3rd party stitching"

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