KOMODO X Review - A Professional's Opinion. 

This might be the best Komodo x video on youtube! Nice work

Amazing video overall! My eyes had a blast with the visuals and the points shared in the video were also concise, keep it up ❤

This is one of the best Komodo-X videos I have seen! Great work.

You’re channel is going to explode. Amazing, beautiful and well made content. Keep it up!!!!🙏🏻🎉💪🏻❤️

Absolutely liked the video and subscribed! Man!!!!! that red pencil, and the red hat and coat with those real, clear and beautiful colors!!!!!! Loved it, man. I'm a big fan of RED cameras and have done a couple of videos about them, but I haven't had the opportunity to buy one yet. Congratulations on your collaboration with RED, and all the best for the future of your channel and personal filming projects. Cheers from Italy.

Excellent. Thank you for the breakdown!

Production quality is INSANE! Subscribed!!!❤

Superb review. Thanks.

This reminds me of your first (?) Kinetify video back then, the Swiss alp and gorgeous clips. Awesome review!

Accurate skin tones save a huge amount of time in post production and potentially allow for more creative interpretation of a scene during coloring since there is some latitude in capturing the maximum range of skin tone data. Alternatively, if a camera body struggles with capturing (and not ruining) skin tones (e.g. exaggerating red splotches on skin, making people look like monotone peaches because the camera doesn’t know what to do with the complexity of skin tones) this causes the colorist to center coloration around correcting the skin color problems that the camera is literally creating out of thin air, thus preventing creative interpretation of a scene. How “fun” a camera is to use (when working which is definitely work) drops significantly when a DP thinks about the lighting in terms of not causing skin tone post production problems instead of being allowed the creative freedom of interpreting the lighting of a scene for how to best tell the story. The more transparent a camera body can make my shooting process, allowing me to tell a story instead of wrestling with color problems in post caused by a camera body and not by the lighting, the more interested I am in that camera body. Thank you for sharing this thoughtful review. (Part of me wishes you had at least one more person with you on the mountain when hiking for safety as two people are better equipped to help an injured person with lifting or dragging or one person staying with the injured party and the other going for help if necessary but perhaps you locations weren’t as remote as they appear on camera.) Great footage and thank you also for mentioning the post production stabilization features of the Komodo-X offers as I was unaware of the X’s ability to capture valuable camera movement data. Unwanted camera movement is such a challenge when shooting for me that it is sometimes the primary factor in my camera body selection. Audiences don’t always notice dynamic range, depth of field, lens characteristics etc. but they absolutely notice camera shake and undesirable camera shake seriously interferes with the ability of an audience to engage fully with non-reality TV based video content. Thank you for your hard work. 👍🧗

Hands down one of the best Komodo X reviews out there. Well done. Will subscribe.

Crushed this video. Currently using it to shoot a Doc on the X

This was a really great video!

This video is AMAZING! The footage is beautiful, and I love the Red intro. Was it created in Resolve?

Thank you, this is a fantastic review.

Great review! Please do more Komodo X videos!

Great review ! What's the music name in the sample footage part of the video ?

Awesome review!

0:54 what a beautiful well lit and graded frame!

very well explained 👍

Awesome 👍👍👍👍👍

The footage here is stunning.

The best komodo x review on youtube! Thank you 👏

The image from this camera is insanely nice!

Although I am very happy with my S1H I kept hanging on your lips for the whole video - so well made and nicely told the story! Truely inspiring, even for owners of other brands than RED.

Beautiful stuff!

thanks for the video.. when you say that with those v-mount batteries you were shooting 2 days conservatively: how often did you switch off the KX during the day and how did you implement the bootup time into shooting so run&gun?

I'm curious how you mount the camera with the rope to the front of your body or backpack while you walking. What equipment or clamp are you using? Thanks.

welcome to Switzerland :)

Nice video, thank you for your time and effort. Could i ask you if you use the signature or de mist edition for the VND? Thanks¡

Beautiful footage!

Still in the city, yes

OH MY GOD THAT INTRO!

Thank you for the review! Could we possibly have some of the footage to test grade? With proper attribution of course. That would be Mint!

Brought one up into the mountains last week, it was 23 degrees Fahrenheit and windy. Had to keep recalibrating the sensor due to the temperature. Wouldn't stay calibrated for more than 5 minutes.

is this 10-bit footage? I'm looking for banding in the sky but I don't see it. The dynamic range looks amazing.

What speakers and monitor are you using in your desk set up. It looks great.

As someone who just climbed a mountain with my Komodo-X i feel your pain. The weight of that camera with everything needed for it to operate was the same weight as my backpacking setup.

Very nice work! But one comment: From a technical perspective of the RED ISO logic you won't use a low ISO (like ISO 400 on the mountains as you shown in your clip) on such a sunny day, lets say a scene with lots of highlights. You'd then rather work with ISO 1000 or above, since ISO in RED cameras will shift the middle gray either upper or lower within the tonal range. That means a higher ISO results in highlight preservation and vice versa a lower ISO means better shadow qualities. Even when shooting in R3D RAW, the image quality will be baked in depending on the ISO setting. So setting the correct ISO at the set will give you a better quality then setting the correct ISO setting in post. Just in case you didn't know or was there a different reason to use ISO 400?

Could you please provide me the link of the music you use for review I would like to use it for my feature film intro thanks

I use the Komodo-X with EF lenses and the AF does a great job. The EF to RF with Drop-In ND is great but the quality of ND on the top end is useless unless you want a day for night shot. There's an aggressive blue shift on the last few stops of ND.

This is the exact review I was looking for. My FS5 died on a snowy snowshoe expedition so I bought the KX hoping for a more rugged, capable camera, those batteries that charge through vmount is insane!! Edit: I found out that you can find two way usb-c to d-tap/p-tap adapters that support charging the battery so I don’t need to buy all new batteries HOORAY!!!

Gyro is not an option if you have to shoot in the wrong shutter speed as you lose the motion blur

Those micro-jitters tho

let me know:)!

Ooooh, at least I wouldn't need to buy lenses for that....I have a few Canon lenses

Yeah red didn't influence his review.....or give him a t-shirt. Good camera though

Still think the Gemini has a more cinematic image.