Re: Why 4k?

[Ramona Howard] "This is still sudo 4K, not true 4K isn't it?."

I was told by a very technically savvy engineer that the recorded image is 2.7k. This information came from someone at a major rental house from tests that they did while evaluating the Red camera. He obviously does not want to be named because if he did, he would have done so already. He did, however, say that they figured that the HD-SDI port would provide a better count.

Please do not jump all over me for this. I am merely passing on the word. But hey, 2.7 is still a very good number. It's just not 4k to the cards, according to him.

So, how does one go about testing this? I was unable to ask this question at that time. When we test footage, I hand it to a friend that has a Flame and he goes in and looks at the pixels.