Red Digital Cinema announced this week the release of the Digital Stills and Motion Camera system, a modular system that allows you to build–and subsequently upgrade–your camera piece by piece. The DSMC system includes mind-boggling new sensors, including one that is 186 x 56 mm with 28,000 pixels, capable of snapping a 261-megapixel still image.

The centerpieces of the new system are two lines (and a total of five sizes) of sensor and electronics modules that Red terms the “brains” of the camera. From there, you can add on I/O modules, batteries, recording modules, monitoring modules, additional lens mounts and more.

The lens mounts, by the way, support Canon and Nikon lenses, and include “power and intelligent lens data interfaces,” according to Red.

The two lines of “brains” have been termed Scarlet and Epic. The massive, 261-megapixel sensor is built for the Epic 617, and that brain alone will cost some $55,000 when it is released in Spring 2010. 

On the smaller end of the spectrum is the 10.1 x 5.35 mm sensor used in the Scarlet 2/3” brain. That brain will cost you $2,500.

The company is careful to note that “price, specifications and delivery dates are subject to drastic changes.”

Click here to visit Red’s site and get the full run-down.

 

 

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