RED’s Jim Jannard has announced a production hold. They will be retrofitting cameras 1-100 with a new sensor daughter board designed to increase dynamic range and reduce noise on framerates at and below 25fps. There is also a new stainless PL mount that does not require the use of adjustment shims. The retrofit will be done at the expense of Red Digital Cinema, and forthcoming cameras will ship with the improvements.

Jim has stated “It is most likely that 101-200 will begin shipping November 30th and 201-600 will begin shipping December 10th.” Prior to this delay, the shipping schedule called for #101-200 to begin shipping October 30th, and #201-600 to begin shipping November 30th.

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