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even if you are unfamiliar with the camera market you have likely heard of a little company called red line is tech tips coverage of NAB 2015 is brought to you by Sennheiser kingston SD cards and lynda.com over the years red has worked their way up to becoming one of those sought after cameras to shoot on embracing an upgrade path for all owner operators of their products the new red weapon stays true to that upgrade mentality building on Reds most recent camera the red dragon the weapon upgrade adds some welcome physical changes starting with the i/o instead of being on the bottom recessed into the body the weapon has now moved the i/o of the camera to the right side making it much more accessible for all the different inputs which I am sure will please many owners that purchase the upgrade red has also redesigned how the weapon handles cooling moving the exhaust to the old position of the i/o and adding a new dual fan intake to the top of the camera the new cooling system is also claimed to be significantly quieter than the previous dragon body the mycampus that were previously on the camera have been replaced with two scratch audio mics built into the camera allowing users the option of not needing an external audio mic for running in-camera audio the weapon also brings a slight processing improvement that is claimed to improve the detail and noise levels of the shadows by roughly half a stop another welcomed addition is the weapon can now run a limo into cat5 cable for external recording to fast SSD media speaking of fast SSD media the weapon will now be using Red's new mini mags which come in three capacities 240 512 and one terabyte recording options have stayed mostly the same with the addition of all flavors of pro res recording giving a new level of flexibility in terms of post-production with this camera along with the red dragon 6 k2 weapon upgrade red announced their new 8k Vista vision sensor this is to be the slightly larger than full-frame sensor that will support a new aka resolution and likely pushed the image quality of that dragon 6 can't even further this sensor isn't coming until later in the year but it will be the next step in the upgrade path following the current dragon owners upgrade to the weapon with this new weapon upgrade red looks to be really pushing the envelope of image quality in their cameras I'm excited to see what the new aka Vista vision sensor will have in store for future productions thank you guys for watching and let me know in the comments down below or better on the forum what you guys think of Reds new - the epic dragon thank you - Sennheiser for sending us here this year check out bitly slash Sennheiser nab for all their new releases also Kingston SD cards for all your personal and professional needs check out bit thoughtless slash Kingston NAB and lynda.com slash enemies where you can learn to become a content creator yourself with all their great video editing and camera tutorials thanks again for watching and for all of our NAB 2015 content please stay subscribed to Linus tech tips