KOMODO X Review - A Professional's Opinion.

[@calebgrundyson2688]

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

[@team2films]

Wow! Thanks so much :) Appreciate you saying that.

[@hoseaesp6309]

This is probably the best gear review video I've ever seen in terms of useful information and visuals.

[@team2films]

Thanks so much. We're glad it hit right.

[@ryanivy4823]

Excellent. Thank you for the breakdown!

[@team2films]

You are welcome

[@eware3000]

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

[@team2films]

Thanks, appreciate your kind comment. We put a lot of effort into this one.

[@potatoz1295]

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

[@team2films]

Yeah, it’s in the same region. We’ve got a new video coming out soon on the Mavo LF II. Stay tuned!

[@amundlie5787]

Excellent review. Made me take the decision to buy the Komodo X.

[@team2films]

That's so awesome. Thanks for taking the time to post that, we appreciate knowing the videos are helping people.

[@The_Daliban]

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

[@team2films]

Ah thanks so much. What an awesome comment. It’s great to have you here.

[@The_Daliban]

@@team2films thank you for sharing your experience and journey with us in such a beautiful way🙏🏻

[@BrandonTalbot]

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

[@team2films]

Thank-you so much. I hope the doc shoot goes well.

[@GwynCole]

This was a really great video!

[@team2films]

Thank-you Gwyn!

[@hanwu4922]

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.

[@team2films]

I'm using the official red top handle with a climbing sling threaded through that cool hole it has. It's not what it's designed for, but it works great. The camera is surprisingly comfortable when worn this way.

[@Michael_Odelberth]

The best komodo x review on youtube! Thank you 👏

[@team2films]

Thanks so much Michael.

[@Michael_Odelberth]

@@team2films I'm interested in buying one myself. Would be great with a follow up video. To hear more about your thoughts and opinions.

[@team2films]

@@Michael_Odelberth It really is a great camera. It was a loaner, so it's not in our possession anymore, but if you have specific questions please ask. We've got a video coming out soon on the Kinefinity Mavo Mk II. That's a super interesting camera to consider. A Red KX plus accessories will cost about 15k. A Kinefinity Mavo Mk II will cost you about 5-7k (depending on whether you go s35 or FF). Compared to the KX it's got some advantages and disadvantages. You might consider it an inferior camera, but at less than half the cost those compromises might be VERY acceptable.

[@Michael_Odelberth]

@@team2films Okey, just the overall feeling of the Komdo X, how is to work with, is it light on your body etc. I have the RED Raven today, so will probably stay inside the RED Ecosystem, to have 2 cameras with the RED codec. Even though the Kinefinity is cheaper I think the Komdo is worth it.

[@team2films]

@@Michael_Odelberth Was a really nice camera to work with. Body is a great size.

[@EAlonzox22]

Production quality is INSANE! Subscribed!!!❤

[@team2films]

Thanks so much! More camera content coming soon.

[@rx-zd8fb]

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

[@team2films]

Thanks so much, appreciate you watching and commenting.

[@mattcarlson12]

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

[@team2films]

Thank-you Matt. That's kind of you to say.

[@topicruben]

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.

[@team2films]

Thanks so much for watching and thanks for your kind comments too. The camera performed beautifully, and the scenery did not let us down! And yeah, that red coat is pretty wild :) Appreciate you watching, and please stay tuned for more Resolve and camera related content.

[@topicruben]

@@team2films will do for sure 👊

[@albertocostell4449]

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¡

[@team2films]

Signature. Not the mist.

[@albertocostell4449]

Thanks¡ Have a nice day@@team2films

[@KristofhPozo]

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

[@team2films]

Thanks so much!!! The camera is perched precariously on a wooden stump! The buildings steel shingles work great for bounce light :)

[@greentokyo]

Great review! Please do more Komodo X videos!

[@team2films]

Yes, we'd love to. We have other camera related videos coming out too.

[@franzguentner]

Great video as always, thanks for that. How did you cope with start up time during the actual hike? Was the KX on all the time or did you always boot it up once you saw something you wanted to shoot?

[@krmdas81]

Awesome review!

[@team2films]

Thanks so much. The camera made it easy :)

[@wissedelange6454]

Thank you, this is a fantastic review.

[@team2films]

Our pleasure, hope its useful.

[@jamescook5931]

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

[@team2films]

Thanks so much! Speakers: Yamaha HS5, Monitor: LG Ultrafine 4K. We’re using an ASUS PA32UCXR in some of the latest videos.

[@jamescook5931]

@@team2films I know you’re a cinematographer, but what camera do you use for photography or what would you recommend?

[@team2films]

@@jamescook5931 Heya James Most of my photography is on film currently. I really like the look of Fuji's GFX medium format cameras. I really like what Fuji has been doing with their other stills cameras too. Photograph is such a mature market now, so you can pretty much buy any FF mirrorless camera and you're going to get amazing pictures. I'm more familiar with Canon's line up so that would be their R series. You don't have to spend major dollar! Remember, if budget is limited, put your money in lenses not in bodies. Currently, my main digital photography camera is a Canon 6D! It's old, but like I said, digital stills cameras are really really mature. The biggest improvements have been in things like auto focus, resolution and video features... Beyond those things a 10+ year old camera like the 6D will still hold it's own really well.

[@jamescook5931]

Dude you are awesome. What clapperboard are you using in the background? Secondly, what keyboard is that in your desk setup?

[@team2films]

@@jamescook5931 Thanks James. It's an Editors Keys illuminated keyboard. The clapperboard is a Deity Smart Slate.

[@maruwaanmoses]

The image from this camera is insanely nice!

[@team2films]

It's a great image! A worthy camera :)

[@ScottBalkum]

Beautiful stuff!

[@team2films]

Thanks so much Scott! Love your work, it helped steer us towards the Kessler CineShooter. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@hannestell]

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?

[@team2films]

Good question. I'm trying to remember now! I think each battery (140Wh) gave about 2+ hours of runtime with the 7" screen on. I'd turn the camera on and off. If I was shooting a Timelapse I'd turn the screen off. The battery lasts a lot longer without the 7" monitor. If I see an opportunity to shoot something I can turn the camera on without looking thanks to its toggle power button. Then it'll take me 30 seconds to get myself into a position where I am ready to shoot. An instant boot would be preferable, but with the right strategy it was rarely an issue. Because the batteries have USB C they are easy to top up whenever a mobile phone charging station presents itself. Does that help?

[@hannestell]

@@team2films yeah totally. I really see it not being an issue at least not when you consciously adapt your workflow to increase bootup times and depending on the size production carrying the extra juice won’t be an issue. Thanks a bunch!

[@LiquidLensPhotography]

The footage here is stunning.

[@team2films]

Ah thanks! The scenery was amazing.

[@arnoldsnodgrass2953]

Superb review. Thanks.

[@team2films]

Thanks for watching!

[@Roman.the.explorer]

How did you deal with the focus and ND filters?

[@team2films]

We used external ND. The Red VND R to PL adapter is excellent. We just used it on the v-raptor. I used the touch to focus feature a couple of times. It works really well. The rest of the time we were doing manual focus.

[@Roman.the.explorer]

@@team2filmsthank you for your reply!

[@Alex__Williams]

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

[@team2films]

Yes. All edited in Resolve and Fusion. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

[@AllTheBeef]

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.

[@team2films]

Ah no! Sorry to hear that. I had ours out in sub zero temperatures without problems.

[@anthonyrock5039]

Beautiful footage!

[@team2films]

Thanks so much Anthony.

[@anthonyrock5039]

@team2films You're welcome. I have found that the red Komodo to be absolutely fantastic with the right lenses. The footage looks completely different depending on what glass is in front of the sensor.

[@marcgalang707]

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.

[@team2films]

Glad to hear. Yeah, most VND's get iffy towards their limits. I have two sets of VNDs at different strengths. That helps.

[@robertruffo2134]

But you could easily figure out how many clicks of WB shift to apply in RAW to get rid of that blue shift, unless it's extreme.

[@johntdp]

kipper tie nd system is great but pricey

[@vjayshethia]

very well explained 👍

[@team2films]

Thank-you so much.

[@cobymarcum1442]

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. 👍🧗

[@team2films]

So true. That's a great point that accurate skin tones free you up to spend more of your time and energy on the other creative parts of the image. Don't worry... it was pretty safe where we were and it was a well travelled route. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

[@jerrynkumu]

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!

[@team2films]

Heya Jerry, send us an email with some more details.

[@jerrynkumu]

​@@team2films Done!

[@joyoffilming9500]

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.

[@team2films]

Thanks so much. And it’s a video partly about the camera but partly about the experience of hiking with a cinema camera. And at the end of the day, there’s lots of great cameras out there. This is just one of them. Thanks for watching and thanks for commenting.

[@KobusGevelspar]

Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing. My s1h is still my favorite, especially prores raw via the ninja. 👍

[@deepmusic2456]

Awesome 👍👍👍👍👍

[@team2films]

Thanks so much for watching and for all your kind comments.

[@chrisreist]

welcome to Switzerland :)

[@team2films]

Such a beautiful place. Hope to be back soon :)

[@nathankrum8715]

OH MY GOD THAT INTRO!

[@team2films]

Thanks man! Used a Kessler CineShooter for it.

[@surfntrucks]

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

[@KristofhPozo]

That's youtube compression, the limits of this platform.

[@team2films]

All RED camera record in 16-bit. And yes, it's got great dynamic range. RedCode is an excellent codec that grades really well.

[@BunkerMountain]

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.

[@team2films]

Hehe! But it's worth it :) And you get extra exercise. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@nfalysonahkake3442]

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

[@team2films]

Here you go! artlist.io/royalty-free-music/song/are-you-ready/110887

[@B1TN3RD]

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?

[@team2films]

Heya, thanks so much for watching! I'm not sure I get what you are saying. Please let me know if I have misunderstood anything,. Thoughts below. Changing the ISO on the camera does not affect the image that is recorded. Therefore there is no quality loss when changing the ISO in post. A camera can only produce a finite amount of dynamic range. So normal cameras are just applying gain or attenuation to the camera signal based on the ISO settings. That practice is more relevant for cameras that use low bit-depth codecs, but Red uses a comparably large 16-bit linear space, hence their decision not to perform those calculations camera. On a a Red, so simply affects monitoring. That's all. So there's nothing wrong with shooting bright scenes at 400 ISO? Additionally, I'm practicing ETTR so I'm not exposing specifically for ISO 400. The histograms on the monitor ignore the cameras iso, they are reading straight from the sensor. 400 is just a comfortable setting for viewing. I'm not sure how Red's dual-native ISO works. I'm not sure if it bumps up to a different base when you hit a certain ISO. Either way, I can't imagine a scenario where it would be more practical to shoot bright exteriors at the high base. Looking forward to hearing your response. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.

[@B1TN3RD]

@@team2films Hey, thanks for you reply, I assume it would be hard to explain it through the chat. I'd recommend you to watch following technical guide for RED cameras, in my opionion this is the best one on KZbin, so you don't need to read the official technical guide on the red website, since these videos sum it up pretty well. This is part two only focusing on ISO, but I also recommend to watch part one of this guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmi7nqCDZ7Slfrs

[@team2films]

@@B1TN3RD Thanks so much for the link. He refers to red's documentation, here's some quotes from Red. 'Ultimately though, a camera sensor sees the same light regardless of ISO choice. One therefore shouldn't have to be restricted to a particular ISO in advance.' 'With RED cameras, the best way to shift the balance between noise and clipping protection is with the ISO setting. Although ISO doesn't actually change the raw image data, it does change how the image is displayed, because it shifts which portions of the scene are mapped to middle gray.' Having the ISO set to 400 has no impact what-so-ever on the image that is recorded. Changing the ISO in post does not have any negative effect on the image either. Underexposing at 400 by a stop is the same as exposing properly at 800. ISO only affects monitoring. As long as you're exposing within the traffic lights, you're good! Does that help or have I misunderstood what you are talking about?

[@B1TN3RD]

@@team2films Hey man, thank you for the constructive explanation by citing the RED technical guide, I also once saw this video as well, in which the creator states that the ISO setting during the filming will also affect noise level in the shot, even though it won't affect the RAW image: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3-leamahJyUabMsi=Cg5skpR1Smtfh9B7&t=1095 @ 18:15mins. Maybe I am still misinterpreting something, so correct me if I am wrong. But it is correct to select a high ISO value (e.g. 1250) for a sunny day, even in post production, right? So middle gray would be shifted towards the shadows and you' d have more tonal steps to preserve the highlights.

[@chrisreist]

Still in the city, yes

[@TotalRADandMORE]

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!!!

[@team2films]

Ahhh, the dtap usb c accessory sounds cool. I’m glad the video helped and I’m happy to find someone else who also likes carrying heavy cameras up mountains 😎

[@TJIzzy]

Crop factor is 1.33x. I would take an FX3 or C70 over this for what you shoot. I own a KX & have had Canon/Sony.

[@team2films]

Awesome. Appreciate you sharing the input and experience.

[@andersistbesser]

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

[@team2films]

Yes, that's true, although it's relatively easy to add motion blur back in post. It's a case of priorities. Would you prefer smooth footage or 180 degree motion blur. Thanks for watching.

[@OmniVisionElite]

Still think the Gemini has a more cinematic image.

[@team2films]

That sounds cool. I’ve never shot with one!

[@Dexter101x]

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

[@team2films]

Yeah that’s a great thing about EF. The flange distance makes it so easy to adapt.

[@Bobbylopezcreative]

Those micro-jitters tho

[@team2films]

You mean the handheld footage?

[@chrisreist]

let me know:)!

[@team2films]

Lookout for us at the airport :)

[@riffman6948]

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

[@team2films]

Got a red cap too. But the opinions are definitely ours. It’s a great camera.

[@f0t0b0y]

Wow, the trolls can get so damn salty. 🙄

[@freddymuggs3902]

Darks are too dark.

[@team2films]

What do you mean?

[@lizlana4200]

@freddymuggs3902 hey he’s talking to you bro