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With Red Camera’s industry footing now quite solid, CEO Jim Jannard is relinquishing his position at the helm. Jarred Land, the company’s president, will become the new face of Red. Jannard announced the leadership change in a post today over at Reduser, the forum he’s used to announce everything from a lawsuit against Sony earlier this year to a DSLR replacement that never quite saw the light of day, way back in 2008. Today’s thread, titled “My Final Post,” details Jannard’s nearly eight years at the company he founded, which began with the NAB 2006 debut of Red One and ran through shipping the Dragon upgrade, the component that essentially served to make “Obsolescence Obsolete.” What’s next for Jim? Retirement might be in order, and with upwards of $2 billion in the bank following his sale of eyewear and apparel maker Oakley, he certainly has the financial footing to back some pretty posh R&R.

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Red Camera’s bombastic CEO, Jim Jannard, says that internal testing of the new 6K Dragon sensor proves that it’s the new “resolution and dynamic range king.” He also claims it will be “the cleanest sensor you have ever seen, ISO 2000 looks better than MX [the current sensor] at ISO 800.” The imaging chip was first outed at NAB in April, promising 15+ stops of DR and 120fps at a full 5K of resolution, with $6,000 upgrades for Epic customers by the end of the year. Owners of the $9,700 (brain only) Scarlet-X will also get the Dragon, though no price or date has been given yet for that camera. Needless to say, some independent testing will be needed to substantiate his claims, but Jannard sure does sound confident.

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