Some companies apparently still think they can apply the mechanical layout of a broadcast camcorder into 4 and 5K high level image capturing instrument and actually compete. Nowhere recently have we seen the shortcoming of this approach more than in the Alexa. The camera is a long as a city bus, (for reasons unknown),and seems to be catering to the news channels by adding a shoulder recess rather than taking the high ground and targeting a viable replacement for the film camera as others have. As someone who must integrate these cameras on remotely controlled mountings, I must express my frustration with the out-of-touch designers such as the Alexa mechs who insist on continuing to employ the wimpy wedge plate base attachment of camcorders from the Watergate era. The only mech designers to have got it right, in my opinion are the Red guys.....two 3/8-16 bolts on a wide solid base giving many mounting options. A strong wind could strip all those little screws right out of an Alexa body and send it into the ocean, never mind mounting it on a camera car, in fact the carrying handle has more structural integrity than the mounting base. This simply is not right....there.... got it off my chest..
