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Arri's Second Century
Right: Greig Fraser,
ASC, ACS trains an
Alexa 65 camera
on Darth Vader
while shooting
Rogue One: A Star
Wars Story. Below:
On the set of The
Monuments Men,
director-actor
George Clooney
(left) and
cinematographer
Phedon
Papamichael, ASC
(wearing hat)
discuss the framing
of an Alexa Plus.

under the most grueling of on-location
conditions, with a natural-light-only
aesthetic during winter in the mountains of Alberta, Canada.
The Alexa 65, Lubezki says, "was
the only camera that could capture the
environment the way that we physically
felt it while we were there. We shot at
dusk, when your eyes can barely see
what is happening, and yet the camera
could still capture the images properly at
the most mysterious moment of the day.
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The language of The Revenant is very
connected to that tool."
Such an experience aptly demonstrates how the Alexa system has
evolved into various sizes, applications
and formats, in ways directly related to
the needs of the cinematography
community. Ukas-Bradley adds that
from the beginning, the approach with
the Alexa has been to build a technology
that can grow and evolve in this way.
"A key component of this
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approach is a very flexible electronic
architecture based on FPGAs [fieldprogrammable gate arrays]," he says,
"which enabled us, in the case of Alexa,
to become an industry standard over the
last seven years. For example, initially
Alexa was designed to top out at 60 fps,
but by redistributing processing
resources, we were able to increase the
maximum frame rate to 120 fps.
Integrating onboard ArriRaw recording
- and just recently including wireless,
uncompressed, low-latency video transmission for monitoring on our latest
iteration of Alexa [the SXT W] - was
all based on popular customer demand."
Of course, cameras are hardly the
full story. As it has done for decades,
Arri continues to sell lenses and motionpicture lighting - and has enjoyed
recent success in joining the LED revolution. Around 2005, Kennel relates,
Arri started investigating multi-channel
LED lighting, which eventually yielded
Arri's Pax LED units, a multi-channel,
wireless system that could provide quality tunable light. That, in turn, led to the
advent of the SkyPanel line, which is
now a leading force in the company's
lighting division.
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