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ARRI
The German cinema-engineering standard.
manufacturer · Munich, Germany · Est. 1917 · Arnold & Richter family
About
ARRI
Arnold & Richter Cine Technik (ARRI) was founded in Munich in 1917 by August Arnold and Robert Richter, initially as a film-equipment workshop and rental house. The company has stayed family-owned and family-run for over a century; its current operations cover camera bodies, lenses, lighting fixtures, and a substantial post-production stack.
ARRI's modern reputation rests on the ALEXA digital cinema line, introduced in 2010 and refined through the LF, Mini LF, ALEXA 65, and ALEXA 35 generations. The cameras' LogC color science and exposure latitude have made ALEXA the default A-camera on tentpole productions for over a decade. The lighting division — SkyPanel, Orbiter, L-Series — sits alongside Signature Prime / Signature Zoom glass on the LPL mount the company introduced with the LF body.
The company has won multiple Scientific & Engineering Academy Awards and continues to publish open documentation for its sensors, color pipelines, and lens metadata standards. ARRI Rental, a separate division, runs the largest camera rental fleet in Europe and operates the ALEXA 65 program globally.
Catalog
7 series · 14 items
Cameras
The ARRI ALEXA family is a generational lineage of digital cinema cameras starting with the original ALEXA Studio (2010) and extending through the Plus, M, XT, Mini, ALEXA LF, Mini LF, and ALEXA 35 (2022). All bodies share ARRI's LogC color science (LogC3 through ALEXA Mini LF; LogC4 on the ALEXA 35) and produce the open-source ARRIRAW or industry-standard ProRes codec families. The ALEXA generation defined modern digital cinematography. The cameras have been the dominant A-camera on tentpole productions for over a decade — every Christopher Nolan feature since Interstellar, every Denis Villeneuve feature since Sicario, the bulk of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and a long list of other prestige work.
References
Further reading
- ARRI — Wikipediawikipedia
- ALEXA 35 launch coveragefxguidefxguide
- ARRI Camera SystemsARRIstudio page