User Manual

Camera Controls 99
Electronic Viewfinder
Brightness Select to adjust the brightness of the EVF.
Rotate image When mounting the EVF to the right side of the camera,
the image can be flipped to orient the image correctly in the
viewfinder. Affects only the EVF image, MON OUT 1/2/3 and
recording images are not rotated.
Smooth mode Select to set Smooth mode On or Off. With smooth mode
on, the EVF image shutters less when panning. The effect is
only noticeable with sensor frame rates of 15 fps or above.
Slightly reduces the image brightness in the EVF.
Note: Smooth mode is only possible with frame rates up to
30 fps and shutter angles of 180.0 or less. If smooth mode is
switched on but not available, the camera issues a warning.
Note: Has no effect on ALEXA SXT Studio with optical
viewfinder attached.
Surround view Select to set Surround view on the EVF-1 On or Off. When
set to on, the additional pixels outside the recorded image
area on the ALEXA’s ALEV III sensor are displayed, allowing
the operator to see outside the recorded image and keep un-
wanted objects, such as microphone booms, out of the shot.
To view only the recorded image, set Surround view to off.
Frame lines +
status info
Select to set frame lines, surround mask, center mark and
status info overlays to On or Off in the EVF.
Peaking Select to set peaking in the EVF to On or Off, and the
strength of peaking to low, medium or high.
Anamorphic
desqueeze
Select to set Anamorphic desqueeze to 1.3x, 2.0x and
2.0xmag. The desqueeze corrects the image for 1.3x and
2.0x anamorphic lenses. With 2.0x lenses, the user can
choose between viewing the full sensor image (2.0x), or on-
ly the relevant image area (2.0xmag) where left and right
sides of the EVF-1 image outside the 2.39 aspect area are
cropped.
Not available in 6:5 2K Cine De-squeeze and 6:5 4K Cine
De-squeeze