Last Wednesday, Videofax in San Francisco hosted Arri’s Snehal Patel, who showed off Amira, “the new documentary-style camera” with the heart of an Alexa. Amira is a tasty package: backlit physical switches and controls, so it’s tactile like a broadcast…

I recently saw a protoype Arri Amira for the first time. I really, really like most of what I saw, but some of it needs a rethink. I know the gang at Chater Camera exceptionally well, and in spite of…