Alexa High Speed Upgrade

I had a chance to check out the newest Alexa features last weekend and they're super cool. I also checked out the upcoming Alexa Studio which allows for an optical viewfinder as well as the EVF, true digital anamorphic, and includes the new High Speed 120fps frame rate option. As far as I could tell, the Studio is about the same size as the Alexa Plus. I was expecting it to be quite a bit bigger than the other cameras so this is good news.

It's no Phantom but it's certainly a big improvement.

The Alexa High Speed upgrade is a paid license but I don't recall the price off the top of my head. The new Sony 64GB SxS Pro cards are requisite to doing both 120fps shots at ProRes 422HQ and 60fps shots at ProRes 4444. Note the cheaper SBS version of SxS card with the orange plastic band doesn't have sufficient write speeds for use with the Alexa.

The high speed option has to be turned on via the "Recording" menu in the camera and it takes about 40 seconds to load.