ARRI ALEXA family

camera_bodyIntroduced 2010

About

ARRI ALEXA family

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.

Signature look

Filmic exposure latitude and color rendering — the ALEXA's LogC color science and dual-gain sensor design produce highlight roll-off that's widely cited as the closest digital approximation of negative film. Skin tones in particular hold gracefully through the highlight transition.

Catalog

4 items in this series

Item	Notes	Status
ARRI ALEXA LF		active
ARRI ALEXA M		discontinued
ARRI ALEXA Mini		active
ARRI ALEXA XT		discontinued

Credits

Used on 13 productions

Crew

Cinematographers who used this

Camera-department crew on productions where this series was used. Same person may appear once per role they held.

Crew	Role	Productions	Scenes
Emmanuel Lubezki	Director of Photography	2	2
Pete Cavaciuti	Steadicam Operator	2	2
Roger Deakins	Director of Photography	2	2
Geoffrey Haley	Steadicam Operator	1	2
James Laxton	Director of Photography	1	2
Joseph B. Dare

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