Last year, when Black Magic finally released the new Pocket 4k and 6k cameras with all the quirks finally worked out, pricing them at $1,000 and $2,400 respectively, everything changed forever. RED Digital Cinema, which has been a company that’s always been caught between the indie and professional markets, was forced to respond with something comparable to the pocket 6k and at a lower price than they’ve ever offered.
That’s where the new RED Komodo camera comes in…
RED Digital Cinema has announced they’ll be releasing a brand new camera system sometime in 2020 (we speculate it will probably be around the end of the year). The RED Komodo will weigh in at only 2 pounds, its largest dimension being only 4 inches, while boasting a 6k global shutter sensor that is larger than a normal super 35 sensor. It will utilize hot-swappable Canon BP batteries and non-proprietary CFast memory cards. The kicker— It will be priced around $5-6,000. This is still much more expensive than the Black Magic Pocket 6k, but it showcases an incredible paradigm shift. Cameras are getting smaller, lighter, and all around better, but the cost of entry is only continuing to shrink. Perhaps industry politics will keep up the cost of higher-end cameras for quite a while longer, but things are definitely seeming to change in a big way.