The situation regarding RED OLPF should be much simpler in the near future. RED Director Jarred Land has just announced at REDUSER the new OLPF standard for WEAPON and EPIC/SCARLET, which will vary between OLPF Low-Light and Skintone-Highlight OLPF in terms of ISO sensitivity and light/shadow detail. It has been said that an ISO 800 could be a good place to evaluate this new filter, THE OLPF LL is acceptable relative to the noise of 1250-2000 and the SH OLPF is acceptable in ISO 320, perhaps even slightly higher. Is this the OLPF that should have been originally supplied with DRAGON in 2013?But it’s better late than never.
If you are totally lost in this topic, the OLPF (low pass optical filter) is a piece of glass that is placed in front of the sensor and avoids aliasing (the wavy patterns you see with older DSLRs, although the higher the camera resolution) A problem with the DRAGON sensor is that the first version of OLPF caused all kinds of magenta flashes , and a later version corrected these flashes, but significantly decreased the sensitivity of the camera and therefore obtained more noise to higher ISO.
- We now have the OLPF standard which.
- As the name suggests.
- Will be the standard OLPF that will be installed on all RED cameras.
- As soon as they get enough of these OLPFs.
- This should make things much easier when renting or buying.
- As the OLPF standard should be the one everyone has by default.
- And you’ll only want other OLPFs if you really need the low details.
- Shine and accentuation.
Jarred posted some interesting photos showing the situation as it is now and what these different OLPFs can do:
One cool thing to note is that when they invented this switchable OLPF system, they were actually able to slash those magenta orbs and torches. So OLPF Low-Light is way better than the first OLPF they released with DRAGON in 2013, and on WEAPON camera, OLPF Low-Light is even better.
There will be two versions, as the OLPF WEAPON is not compatible with EPIC and Scarlet, all these elements are intended for cameras with DRAGON sensors and in which the interchangeable OLPF module is installed, and will be released in October. The cameras will have the three OLEP REDs free of charge.
Jarred Land posted this photo on Facebook with the hashtag # 4K4ALL
What does that mean? Well, we can probably assume that some kind of cheaper model is coming out soon, which could be limited to just 4K (we don’t know yet, though) The RED SCARLET MX is still technically on sale, but they’ll probably be phasing it out over the next year, just like everything will change for DRAGON sensors. They said at one point that Scarlet would not be left behind, so this camera might as well be.
It would not be surprising if this new camera costs between $ 4,000 and $ 7,000 (body only). The thing about these prices is that the way RED cameras are built, you have to use their bracket, as well as some kind of touch screen accessory or handle / module to actually control the camera. These accessories can be a bit pricey, so just because the camera body is cheap doesn’t mean this functional camera is cheap. It is not impossible for them to control their body, but it is a bit unlikely.