Movie studio camera equipment
RED is uncommon in the cinema world, though is more common on high end television/streaming. Arri film cameras and equivalent are the main cinema choices.
Film is a superior acquisition format to digital - a digital recording has a fixed resolution which isn’t very futureproof, whereas film can be rescanned to high resolution.
For instance, in the early 2000s a lot of television started to be shot in digital - at 480p or 576p, and videotape before that. These recordings can never be effectively upscaled and released on BluRay.
Whereas anything shot on analog film could be rescanned. Hence why movies from the 70s can still be released on 4K BluRay and make money.
Movies shot on RED now might look great now, but when 100K is the standard for television an 8K recording might not scale up very well, whereas you’d be able to get a useable image by rescanning a film to 100K.
Among other reasons of course - such as RED being fairly well known to be fairly unreliable and not offer great support.
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