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The digital film look on a budget – 10 years after the Arri Alexa, what gets closest for cheapest?

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Hard to believe it, but EOSHD is nearly 10 years old!

2010 was a big year for digital cinema. The 5D Mark II was in full stride kickstarting DSLR filmmaking. Arri’s first proper digital film camera the Alexa was released and revolutionised filmmaking at the highest levels. Now all these years later I’m still looking – not for the sharpest, highest K, most featured packed modern camera but for a camera costing less than $1000 which has the most Alexa-like image.

Not on a technical level, of course, but in terms of the feel of the images and how cinematic the end-results are when viewed on the big screen.

Read moreThe digital film look on a budget – 10 years after the Arri Alexa, what gets closest for cheapest?

You can now get an Arri Alexa for £4900

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Fantasies do come true for people willing to work hard over many years but sometimes, a dream can be realised simply by sitting down for a very long time and doing nothing, until the object of your desire becomes a bit old and tatty.

Yes, now is your chance to own an Arri Alexa.

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The Revenant – a documentary

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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJfTfsXFbLk[/youtube] The Revenant is an obvious candidate for one of the most cinematographically poetic films of the past year. Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu had a documentary crew following him from the start of principal photography in October 2014, following a gruelling shoot, 20th Century Fox have uploaded the entire 45 minute documentary to YouTube. Watch it above and have your say on the EOSHD Forum.

Oscar nominees 2016! Two films shot in 65mm, Arri still dominates

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niVBWxmawws

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Of the Oscar nominated films this year I’ve rounded up the best picture and cinematography nominees and dived into the technical department.

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Canon Interview – “investigating 4K and LOG” for future DSLRs. Also C500 successor will be ‘Alexa-style’

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In this illuminating interview with Canon’s Masaya Maeda by Neil Matsumoto, stuff happens.

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Alexa Mini timing suggest C300 Mk II announcement at NAB

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Due to feedback from filmmakers in favour of smaller cameras Arri has introduced the Mini – but the timing is very interesting.

We are just over 1 month away from NAB in early April. The Alexa Mini is still a prototype and it isn’t due to ship until May. Clearly in the long term development process of this camera Arri aimed for NAB 2015 – so why rush out an announcement and a rough looking prototype at BVE in February?

This is the clearest signal yet that new Cinema EOS cameras are coming at NAB and Arri wanted to avoid having their announcement drowned out by a glut of other cameras.

So let’s look ahead just 1 month and predict what the C300 Mark II will look like…And whether a new 4K DSLR is coming from Canon too.

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