Yeah, so I think maybe we can do like a Steadicam shot like through here and then
It's the ARRI booth. Let's go then! Oh!
Film Jams!
All right, we're here with Chase from ARRI and we have the Alexa Mini LF. I'm super excited to check this camera
I'm an ARRI Mini owner. So this camera got me really excited when I first saw it. What are the- what's new about it?
And what are- what are you excited about for this camera?
Well, the really cool thing is with the Alexa Mini LF. What we're able to do is take that large format sensor
we introduced last year with the Alexa LF and squeeze it into a mini body. It's amazing. Yeah! So it's actually 5.7 pounds.
So 0.7 pounds heavier than the Alexa Mini and as you can see, it looks very similar.
We have this new side panel for the new media. But otherwise, it's a normal mini.
So all your existing accessories minus maybe one side bracket will fit on to the camera, which is fantastic.
But not only introducing a new camera in a sense that we also have a new viewfinder. It's totally new from the ground up.
It's got a four inch screen instead of a three and a half inch. It's 1080p. It's high contrast, great colors.
So it's a much better panel in there. We also have the new eyepiece.
It's the same optical eyepiece and end light engine from the Alexa LFs EVF to that new view finder
we introduced mid last year for the Alexa LF. It's at 315, its current rightness, but it can actually go up to 500
units for HDR in the future software update.
So it'll be a super bright HDR mode if you want to use it with great color great contrast
It's got the ARRI cam eyepiece so that same great big entrance pupil
So it's easy to see even when you're moving around which is great even has it built an eye cup heater inside the viewfinder
It's got a headphone jack in it as well. So it got me really excited
Yeah, it didn't have that under normal Mini.
So totally new it's also got a lot of new physical controls where each of the buttons when you look up closer
They have little symbols
So you can feel what button exactly you're on by that little recessed symbol very smart embossed essentially, which is great
It also uses a new coax cable viewfinder. So what that means is this cable has no keyway. You can plug it in
Anyway, there's no such thing as the wrong way
All you have to do kind of like USPC for view finders you plug it in and you're good to go
And there's really nice can actually be run really long
So on a normal mini, you can only go about six feet on this viewfinder cable design with this new camera
You can go up to 33 feet or 10 meters
So you can use this very remotely even for underwater when you're far away from the camera. It was extension cable
Yeah
So up - yeah
Limit is now 10 meters or 33 feet instead of about 6 feet with the old viewfinder and the viewfinder cable for the normal mini
So you before you have bigger fan, you have the same sensors in the LF, which is fantastic
So 2 ARRI sensors essentially that are printed on one piece of silicon. So double as big of a sensor
4.5 K. Just like the Alexa LF now the difference is of course the Alexa LF is a full-featured camera
So it's got four totally independent monitoring outputs. It can do up to 150 frames an area raw
It's got 2,000 foot wireless video
Extra power ports and some features that this camera doesn't have because obviously we're trying to squeeze it down
So the limits in frame rate here in open gate you can do about 40 in ARRI raw
Currently and then you can also go up to 60 frames in
ARRI raw as well in the two three nine flat mode and the 4k UHT mode so you can still get up to 60
Which is fantastic ProRes or ARRI raw in the camera to the same drive. You don't have to change drives
Hold on you got you got one of the new codecs drives in your hand. Let's check this baby out
This is a new codecs compact drive this be small its tiny to go with the camera
one terabyte actually
So tiny one terabyte this one we're gonna offer with the camera when it ships and it's actually 8 gigabits per second
So it's still quite a fast drive not as fast as the sxr but still very impressive
but again
Very small very reasonably priced too when you consider actually it's about two thousand three hundred eighty us for a one terabyte drive
Which actually per gigabyte is faster than is not faster. Not only faster but cheaper then c-fast
So it's actually not only much faster but per gigabyte cheaper than see fast. It's really awesome
Now one thing that a lot of people are asking is you know
Is there gonna be a super 35 mode with higher frame rates?
Is that planned at all, or what do people that want to shoot?
The super there is a mode that can let you higher which is that you can take the 4k
Uhd mode of the camera which crop some of the sensor you use just exactly 4k, uhd
Which is about a 36 millimeter diagonal same mode
We had the LF and in that mode the camera can take that 4k and down sample it to HD or 2k up to 90
Frames so you can get faster, but it's only 2k or HD, even though it's using the 4k uhd area sensor
That would not be something to be acceptable by anyone that has a 4k mandate. For example
So you can get to 90 now in super 35 modes again
It would be something that we would add in a future firmware update for free
But we don't know exactly what modes we don't know when we're just saying that we are gonna do it
We're gonna collect feedback and find what modes we want to add because we're not gonna add all of them
But even in that mode remember, it would be the same sensor resolution as a normal mini
So you're not going to necessarily gain anything in terms of super 35 resolution.
But we're gonna keep selling and supporting the normal mini because this is obviously a large format camera
It's a little higher price because of the bigger sensor. So we're gonna keep supporting and selling the normal mini as well
It won't be discontinued. Yeah, awesome awesome. And so super 35 lenses will work with the adapter. Yep
that's a good question and I get the question a lot, which is
If I want to put a normal PL mount lens super 35 or large format on the camera every ready to shoot kit comes with
This PL to LPL adapter. We introduced last year that goes right into the LPL mount that the camera ships with natively
So if you buy they're ready to shoot set this comes with it
of course just like I do with the LF last year and this takes it right back to 52 millimeters in 54 diameter instead of
44 and 62 for the large format lenses that really allow you to build lenses like nothing else
So LP a lot of people say why do you switch to LPL?
It's because two things obviously if finger sends recover
but it also
Changes lens design entirely because now you're taking the back of the lens and bringing it closer to the sensor and you can make lenses
You could never before make with PL because that mount has such a great distance
so in the future all ARRI cameras will be LPL non and everyone forgets ARRI invented the PL mount in 1980 and we came from
Two previous ARRI mounts before that and when we switched to PL everyone said, oh my god is amazing. Thank god with this. Of course
It's a new mount people get a little confused
But this adapter I say comes in every kit pops and takes a second know anything to worry about
Oh man, you can use all your old lenses for now at least so obviously does not optical adapter
So it doesn't and create a larger lens coverage
But we have this really cool tool on the website called the lens
Illumination guide so you can see if certain super 35 lenses cover the sensor
So in 4k uhd where it doesn't use the entire sensor
But the 4k worth which is halfway between super 35 and full-frame ultra prime 20 and greater cover that
Master prime 35 and greater cover that some of even the zeiss super-speeds do at a certain focal length be leica Thalia's like a stimulus
They actually cover the 4k uhd 36 mil diagonal, but if you want to use the entire sensor
You're probably better off with our fantastic signature primes. We're - the signature prime
Oh, yes, we're shipping 12 focal lengths right now
Most of them are t 1.8 or magnesium first set of cine lenses ever made a magnesium so they look big but they're actually on
Average 2 pounds lighter than a master prime. Are you serious? I did not realize that!
Introduced last year and now we're up to 12 out of the 16 focal lengths by the end of year. We'll ship all 16
So you have plenty of choices. Very cool. One last question. Is there an EF mount plan for this?
I know that's one thing a lot of people loved about the original mini. It's in the works
We're examining it right now
You can mechanically use the existing one, but you might get some vignetting at the corners
But mechanically it does fit if you're ok with that. We will need to design a new one with light baffles
So we're collecting feedback and trying to figure out how best to do that
But at launch we'll have you know
The LPL mount with the PL adapter as part of their ready to shoot set. Awesome
And this is scheduled for release in July still? So the first cameras will ship in July
How many and where they go, we don't know but yes in July. Oh, yeah. No, I'm sorry, man
When will be like when will they be not where you don't need to pre-order them?
Will they be in stock like at some point or yeah at some point
it's kind of like the mini the first time where we're kind of we're like
Hey better order now if you want it this year
I know it is kind of the same situation where we know we're still confident
We can make enough cameras for this year, but you know by the end of the show
We might have to start telling people, you know, really end of the year because it's just a fantastic response and success
I mean when I was in the office on Thursday in Burbank when it was announced I couldn't have 5 seconds between phone calls
So we're way over 500 order plus, you know, yeah. That's amazing. One last question actually, is there
so as far as the pricing because I know this comes with the raw and it comes to the anamorphic already built in so the
Original mini it's it's it's very close to price right if you add on the licenses
Body price difference is about six thousand
6500 US currently between a fully
licensed super 35 mini which of course will still offer and then the large format mini LF is about
58,000 52 to 58 thousand. So the price difference is about six thousand 6500 u.s
For the body between the two so very reasonable just like with the LF actually was only about six thousand us more or even five
Thousand u.s
More than the SX TW which was a super 35 full-sized Alexa
Right so you can get into this camera for not much more than the original Mini. That's awesome
The shoot package is pretty much under 80,000 US which is quite extraordinary for a large format. Yeah
I can't wait to try one of these. Thanks so much, Chase. Appreciate your time. Thanks a lot