The Red Komodo has a 19.9 global shutter, and it's extremely well thought of in the video market. No rolling shutter and very impressive video. This is only a body with no lens, but at 6K very reasonable. So global shutters are slowly making it into the market, but 200MP I agree is not only years away, but also it will be a shoot to the moon price.
Yes the IQ4 has USB-C, which is used for tethering to C1 on a laptop or can be used to run the back from an external battery pack.
Paul
Well the point about the cinema world is that both Red and Arri have the ability to custom design sensor platforms (they may reuse designs via stitching, etc.) due to the different economics in the cinema world. Also the space and heat dissipation aspects of a cinema body are completely different than what is possible to cram into a small digital back.
For example, the Alev CMOS sensor previously lasted a decade and now the newest gen will probably also last a decade. They have a lot more space around the sensor with the cinema body to implement a dual gain structure and have better ability to dissipate the heat due to the size of the body.
Have you ever looked at the sensor board of an Alexa? It is huge and spacious. So if you are in a duopoly like they both are with a highly lucrative rental and camera sales business with cinema cameras which arguably can get a lot more expensive with accessories, etc. you can of course plan differently and then also approach Towerjazz and say: hey we have USD10m and want to build the next gen CMOS with you based on dual gain structure, etc. and they can then devide the cost by the lifetime expected unit production.
So the last Alev generation served Arri very well - ie a decade - and I would assume they built a few thousand if not 10k+ sensors for cinema cameras during this period. Then all of a sudden, if you are the quasi market leader and revenues are more or less plannable, then you can go and design custom chips that you make profitable over a long time.
P1 probably faces the question where to best invest capital for highest RoE and I am afraid it is not fronting 10m USD for a new sensor order but maybe more hiring sales reps in B2B and driving forward the drone product line based off of existing tech stacks ...
I mean they are cranking out some insane aerial produts, like a dual sensor 200 megapixel + array with two 90mm Rodenstock lenses ... we can all guess that this probably costs 200k + to order ... and there are enough industrial / governmental clients willing to do this ...