are RED sensors CMOS sensor with swish?

I've never used a RED, but considering bumping up to that level over this next year. I have two questions:

1. Are the RED sensors, including the new ones (EPIC and SCARLET) CMOS sensors?

2. If they are CMOS sensors, do they suffer from the same vertical skew that vDSLRs suffer from?

- Trevor Ward

Funny you say that about analog cameras. I'm working on a documentary and some of the archive footage was shot on Hi-8. I noticed the vertical line skew, or swish. I thought to myself, "those cameras 17 years ago didn't have CMOS sensors, did they?"

Thanks for the info.

-trevor ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
orlando, fl

FYI, both CCD and CMOS type chips can have either global or rolling shutter. It's not tied that CMOS is always rolling and CCD always global.

What it comes down to is how fast the sensor can read / reset. This read / rest time is much lower on Mysterium sensor the HD-DSLRs, even lower on Mysterium-X and lower still on Epic. In other words, the effect is utterly negligible.

Graeme

- http://www.nattress.com - Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP

Same sensor, but faster more powerful surrounding electronics.

Graeme

- http://www.nattress.com - Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP