For quite a long time now, we were planning to get our hands on the ARRI ALEXA Classic and also ALEXA Mini LF to give them a spin in our lab. Well, the time has finally come! Curious to hear how the ARRI ALEXA Classic and Mini LF fare in our standard lab test? Then read on … First of all, a big thank you to AV Pro, a Vienna-based rental house, who loaned us the ARRI Mini LF including SIGMA Cine primes! Secondly, another big shout out goes to Konstantin “Costa” Konstantinou as well for lending us his ARRI Alexa Classic camera! Thirdly, I’d also like to mention NVIDIA, who gave us a RTX 3090 graphics card to test various cameras with – thank you! Now that we speak of it… just as a quick reference: the RTX3090 cuts through the Mini LF’s open gate 4480×2520 ARRIRAW files on a 4480×2520 DaVinci Resolve 17.1 timeline like a hot knife cuts through butter. It runs at about 33% load, using about 6.6GB of memory. An absolute joy to use! You might ask why this article is about two cameras instead of one. Well, my colleague Sebastian already tested the ALEXA Classic many moons ago, so I thought it would be good to just quickly retest this classic ARRI camera to make sure all results fall into the same place before moving over on to the ALEXA Mini LF. This article is organized as followed: we will first have a look...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 21 April, 2021