Just How Impressive is the RED Epic’s Resolution?

There are cameras, and then there are freaking big cameras. Who better to deliver such a freaking big camera than RED? The company first exploded onto the scene last year when they released their RED ONE 4K camera, one that’s capable of capturing RAW video at a staggering 12 megapixel resolution… one that is so high, no TV on the market could display its video in raw form.

Yesterday, the company unveiled their Epic 5K and Scarlet 3K models, due out in early 2009, and released with them a resolution comparison chart, in case there was any doubt about just how ridiculous the resolution was. While the wimpy 2 megapixel 1080p resolution takes up the entire dark gray area, the 5K (~15 megapixel?) Epic is truly unparallelled.

I think “Epic” is appropriate.

You can see how basically it would take seven or eight of the newest 1080p hi-def TVs to show an entire 5K image, and even then it wouldn’t be the whole thing because Red shoots to a special raw format with more color depth than your TV can display.

Source: CrunchGear