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Spiderman 2 coming to IMAX!!!

jcwagers

jcwagers

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For all of you that have an IMAX theater near you.....you might check this out! Tickets are $12 a head but I think the experience would be well worth it! Not all IMAX theaters show movies so you might need to check the IMAX site to see if the one in your area will be playing it. I sure wish there was an IMAX near me............but to all of you that have one close.....you might wanna check it out!

IMAX

Also....at this time, they don't have a list of theaters that will be showing the movie but they should have one up soon....hopefully!

jc
 
Normal film is 35mm wide.
Each shot is perpendicular to the film, so the width is about ~35mm wide( actually less due to the perforations) and the height is ~17mm.
16 to 9 ratio

Imax film is 70mm wide.
Each shot is parallel to the film, so the width is about ~90 mm wide and the height is ~70mm.
4 to 3 ratio

The image looks really nice when blown up, because you have over 10 times the resolution.

Spiderman was shot in Panavision (16 to 9), so it won?t look any different on Imax, except for the fact that each shot will have to be cropped a bit to make the 4 to 3 ratio. That is no different that simply sitting closer to the screen. They use some software to blur the grain, because it become visible when blow up this large, then they digitally ?sharpen? it so you don?t get a really soft image. It is, if anything, empirically worse than the original 35mm image. It may, however, to some people be subjectively better.


Someone tell me if I am missing something.
 
Hrm...

So the IMAX version of Spiderman2 is simply a cropped and enlarged image version?


Darn, thought they'd filmed it digitally (like the new Star Wars films), so they could do a real enhancement.




Cheers, :beer:
PCM
 
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