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today we gotta talk about and stress test two features of the red komodo 6k that i think are
absolutely killer and more people should talk about and we do all this while the komodo is
mounted on a freaking car dope and um you know as always let's start this whole thing
with a footage sequence for you to critique and feast on and see you in a second bye-bye
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we have no hazing no fees anything and she would just go for it today we're to talk about the two
top features of the red commodore that barely anyone talks about that's on one side the global
shutter and on the other side the red control app and that totally makes sense because this
the camera was designed originally as a crash cam i definitely cannot just sacrifice a 6 000
camera so i'm partnering up with patrick who is the dp and red user as well based here
in chicago who has this really cool car rig so that we can test out the global shutter and the
and the red control app but before we talk about it patrick is going to walk us through the setup
here because you know we don't love anything more than talking about gear right all right let's go
so today we were flying the komodo on uh the ronin 2 and we have the the new ascending
works ray rig which is a trailer hitch mount to a mitchell mount and then we put a kessler kill
shock on there for anti-vibration slapped a ronin 2 on there we have the dzo film 20-55
and then we're also has have the tilta nucleus m follow focus um so we got full control of the lens
um as well as we got a tear deck on the side right over here and you know for a car rig this is
something that's very simple to set up it really just requires a trailer hitch and at the end of
the day i could throw this in a suitcase um and and very well be be on a job site with it
um this is the first part of it and the second part would be our control station so far we have
the joystick for the actual ronin 2 so that we can give it complete control and you got zoom focus
record all the good stuff so we have an operator back here right now you can see we have the ipad
app up with the komodo full control as well as we have a monitor right here to be able to see
normally we have a monitor up there in the front for the driver to make sure that he knows what's
going on at all times and then if we had more friends we would have someone pull in focus but
today uh today joey got to do both jobs so well thank you so much patrick for walking
us through the gear and rig setup let's go back to the studio and talk global shutter right
all right and we are here in the studio and i have a new random makeshift setup for today's video
it's different let me know in the comments below what you think
but i said let's talk about global shutter first
so most of your dslrs mirrorless cameras many cinema cameras and certainly your phones have
a rolling shutter and that means that the sensor is being read out line by line and that leads to a
tiny time difference between when the top sensor line is being read out versus the bottom one
that becomes very visible in shots that are either where your camera moves from one side to the other
fairly fast or if you have a fast moving subject going through your frame this sensor exposure in
a progressive motion leads to what we know as wobbling or warping of the image and here's a
very extreme illustration of what it likely looks like just take out your phone and film with it and
move it back and forth really quick a global shutter on the other side reads out the sensor
exposes the sensor all at the same time which completely eliminates these kind of
undesirable image properties that you get with a rolling shutter most of the newer cameras have
faster and faster readout speeds of the sensor which reduces the impact and effects of a rolling
shutter though i personally think that the organic feel that you get from a global shutter especially
when going handheld is still not matched by any camera that has a rolling shutter
so what is the magic about this global shutter in the komodo and why does not every other
manufacturer go with one well you have to know that a global shutter generally comes with a
technical limitation that it pushes down the dynamic range of the sensor actually red was first
thinking about having both a global and rolling shutter readout in this camera but as they were
like testing out the global shutter they realized that the dynamic range was not as bad so they kept
pushing the global shutter further and further and now this global shutter in the red komodo
seemingly boasts a dynamic range of 15 to 16 stops which is hey quick update here from the
future because a couple of things happened after finished recording this video that i definitely
wanted to share with you first of all the komodo was briefly published and posted on b h's website
so now we have the official dynamic range which is 16 stops definitely on the higher end of what
i was guessing dope secondly jared shared this video jared the president of red shared this
video here on instagram which goes back to the point i was mentioning earlier this video was
shown to him a couple of years ago um and it is a comparison between the rolling shutter and the
global shutter and this made him decide to go all in with a global shutter and lastly
red also pushed out a new firmware update which introduced pre-record lq compression mode which
almost doubles your recording time compared to hq for sure and mq i think is very close to doubling
it has a magnifying option as the eye overlays and improvements to the autofocus amongst
other things now back to the old me and yes time is weird and if you stick around towards the end
of the video it will make a little bit more sense a little tease hashtag tenet just saying all right
so in what real world scenarios does a global shutter come in handy well you guessed it for
example when you shoot outside of a fast moving vehicle and the background is just zooming by and
that is something that we certainly push to the limit with this shoot and if we stop at frame here
you see that the straight posts zooming by in the background are perfectly straight as well
in comparison let's look at this shot captured on the a7 s2 which has a rolling shutter and frankly
i don't remember that the post was tilted like that so clearly an effect of the rolling shutter
and as mentioned the global shutter also comes in very handy when you go handheld because you
don't have this wobble of a rolling shutter and the image feels much more organic and pleasing
and much more digestible visually as if you write real in the moment and you don't get distracted
and sick because everything is like going and the last major use case of a global shutter is when
you film explosions or flashing lights and that can be in concerts that can be car crash scenes
or whatever and you see it very very clearly here right now as i'm shooting on the eva one with a
rolling shutter you have these black bars because your your image is getting not fully exposed as it
as as the flashlight happens so shortly while totally the global shutter of the komodo
no problem exposed perfectly no weird artifacts all right i still see a lot of flashes happening
but i hope you have a better idea now why red decided to put a global shutter into
this hollywood crash camp that may see a lot of explosions but what we see next
what a segway is the app that was a terrible segue i don't even know why i made this joke
while most cameras over the past couple of years came with wireless control built in i always had
bad experiences with a panasonic you would have to buy an additional dongle for hundreds of dollars
and with the a7s ii and didn't even try the only good one was actually gopro that was kind of easy
and straightforward what's really standing out to me with the komodo and red control is its low
latency and it's fully customizable nature and that you can control the anything you want to
control the camera through the app so we want to test out if red control is not only a legitimate
option to control the camera but also to monitor and pull focus especially in a real-world scenario
like having it on a car so let's explore the latency first and in order to connect the with
the commodore remotely you can either log into an existing wi-fi network it's called infrastructure
on the camera or you use the komodo to create a hotspot it's the ad hoc mode so let's test both in
this very controlled studio environment first with the ipad in very close proximity to the komodo and
we have the sdi monitor here as a control and a quick disclaimer this is not a scientific test
whatsoever but i will throw on the delay that the red control has in frames just that you can do the
math by yourself it's a 23.98 timeline there's no science here nothing nada but let's test it
infrastructure mode first clap so infrastructure mode has x frames delay now let's switch over to
ad hoc mode where the komodo creates its own network so past me doesn't know what's faster
and better so i will put the frames down here and it may be the same it may be better maybe worse
but let me throw in another anecdotal comparison in here and that is against the terracing system
that we used on the car rig which is by far a superior system when it comes especially to
distance and reliability but i found that in our scenario the red control was only one frame behind
the pterodactyl system which is possibly not even noticeable with your bare eye again not scientific
so the big question is how usable and reliable is red control in a real world environment and
lo and behold on our first test drive with the car rig we couldn't get our sdi monitors to work
with the komodo but that meant that we had to fully rely on red control in order to not only
control the camera but also monitor and pull focus so what did we find well first of all it
is a fully reliable way to control the camera as mentioned you can literally do anything you can do
on the touch screen on top of the camera with the app and you can fully customize it to your needs
and preferences however when it came to monitoring we ran into a few challenges sitting in a faraday
cage in a densely populated city with densely populated wi-fi networks showed limitations
to the strength of the connection between the komodo and the app the deeper we went downtown
the more regularly the image lagged behind or froze completely which made controlling the ronin
and the camera from that perspective very very difficult though there's one way to improve the
reliability of the image transmission between camera and app and that's by setting the live
stream quality to low but that also meant that the image quality obviously had a little bit of a
hit and made focus pulling much harder and frankly i was fairly surprised in post like
how often i was still able to nail focus i guess it comes down to eagle eyes so lastly
one question that needs to be unscientifically answered is how far can these two go apart
while still having an image transmission and control let's test this in the wild
all right better wear a mask for this one and buckle up because we are now on the commodores
network with the livestream quality set too low and for this one i'm gonna bike backwards
you know tenants now while the car is driving forward this is the coolest most unscientific
test that we could come up with to test the maximum distance so let's see when
it's getting choppy and when we lose complete control choppy choppy still good um okay i'm
still connected for the controls but i lost the stream the stream is frozen we and we're gone
okay uh that's it that's the furthest distance so in conclusion i really dig the ab i
i think i really like the ui because it's really customize your own ui
and the latency is just insane the only bummer is really that it's only available on ios right now
and it depends really on when you're watching this video because you know it may be already out there
because time is a weird construct but right now i have to deal with a silly tablet setup but mikhail
who is the app developer promised they're working hard on the android app and should come out soon
so i'm really stoked about this our tests clearly have shown that there are limitations in terms
of the distance you have to go between the app and the camera but uh for my purposes mostly i
think actually it's totally usable and it means that i don't have to use any cables
if you watched my previous video you know i shared with you some footage from the red commodore for
download for you to have fun and play around with and started the red komodo hashtag komodo
challenge i will add one or two shots from this shoot to it for you to play around upload to
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thanks so much for watching have a good morning have a good night wherever and wherever you are
around this beautiful planet bye bye there's one way to improve the reliability of the image trench
reliability that a hundred times and you get it maybe once right
are you kidding me i'm not going now it's in the middle of the night we're
testing this on tuesday i'm just pre-recording this and oh sorry bye