Talking with ARRI ALEXA Mini Product Manager Michael Jonas

The new ARRI ALEXA Mini looks to provide the same ALEXA image quality in a much smaller package, helping those who want to mount the camera on a drone or in a gimbal setup, since it weighs just 5 pounds.

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ok so I'm here at the Aerie booth with
Michael and we're going to be looking at
the new ariel X a mini so tell me a
little bit about why you decided to
build a camera like best
already uh to build a small camera was a
very common request from our customers
just because they are always situations
where kind of all larger main unit
cameras didn't work and people had to
integrate footage from third-party
cameras with electric footage and that
created all sorts of workflow and
grading issues so
di tease will be happy is singing and
dancing because there's now a new small
camera that can be used for all these
situations and the workflow and image
quality is going to be consistent for
all the footage so now we've got the
same 3.4 k
Alexis sensor that's in this camera now
yeah and it's it's the same LF three
sensors all in in all in our camera
Alexa and amira it's just a new version
of it so the the sensor has to read out
speed of the mirror sensor but it is a 4
by 3 cents or so
the heart has a larger sensor area and
then the camera will support for with me
an anamorphic in the futures of the
update
initially the camera will be pros only
so when we shipped his
in May it will be pros only
HD 2 k-3 . 2k and 4k uhd in progress up
to process for for xq different frame
rates in 2k HD it's going to be 200 max
in 3.2 k and you HD it's going to be 60
mix right so now you decided to do the
upscale to 4k with this model but the
actual the bigger likes it doesn't do
the upscale in the camera
the new Alexa is exceed that we're
launching on the show does to the
upscale not only to the 4k uhd but also
to for ktc I the previous version of the
camera just wasn't beefy enough in terms
of electronics for the processing shared
the processing issues yes it's a lot of
data because kind of our image pipeline
is works uncompressed only the end of
the image pipe actually complexity
information so it's just a lot of
information actually rushing through the
camera
we tried to have the camera as compact
as possible so
from a constructive side there is a
sense of carrying the front of the
camera and the body of the camera pretty
much hangs from the center carrier as
well as the lens mount hangs from the
center carrier on the lens mount we have
on this lens month so this is the
titanium EDS lens mount that has an
Airbus connect on it el bus is the
connected to connect see force motors
it's a cooperation between emotion and
us we are launching a new motor the sea
force mini which is a very small and
lightweight but still fast and with like
a pretty good talk
motor which is ideal for primes and
mid-sized zooms so that titanium lens
mount has the elbow is connected but you
can use all the Emir amounts as well so
you can guess the EF mount indeed before
month as well as to steal LDS man with
the hi Rosie connector which may be
useful if you want to use kind of a
cabrio lens or something like that in
front as well is a
this camera is rigged upside down so
it's a i'm looking at the wrongs right
so the in front as well as a 5-pin limo
it
it's the audio input it we support like
a stereo line-level symmetric input so
it's a ground and -
this - audio pairs pretty much really
it's really more as reference audio and
well we initially we thought we want to
stretch the scratch track with her only
but it turned out to be so good that it
really has the same quality as kind of
you could you could potentially go out
from a reporter something and yet you
could just put like a
wireless receiver . and record so and
there's a an antenna for all ends
control interface
there's a new rocket connector for DVF
this is not like other diem your kind of
we used the Emir view finder
we don't have an hdmi connector on the
other side there's this one is hot
pluggable so when the cameras running
you can connect and disconnect the
viewfinder no problem
you can use the camera without the
viewfinder but you would need a laptop
or tablet to set the camera right
choose rosters let's say frame lines
codex right but when you're kind of
shooting and you're you you have decided
what you're going to shoot then all the
operational parameters like frames per
second
white Belen's shutter angle VI en DS are
changeable from that interface is
reflected in the SDI output in the OSD
around
I think what's also interesting is so
everything is controlled wirelessly so
if you fly this on a drone
you can use the app to you can use the
end all you can use kind of our white
radio system so the wcu forehand unit
will not only be able to like pull the
focus with the with the motors but also
be able to change all the operational
parameters like frame rates and peace
and something that you have the moment
all the only be your your control unit
ready this emotion
your next we will work with the focus
models but they will not be able to
change the motors change the operational
parameters of the camera
but you can use them to focus so the
body right now is 45 thousand dollars in
the u.s. it's thirty two thousand five
hundred euros in in Europe the entire
package is is flexible so again of I
think the complete package and us will
run for like sixty thousand dollars i
think it depends