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[-] remer@lemmy.ml 106 points 2 years ago

I didn’t realize imax was still film. I figured it went digital with everything else.

[-] sci@feddit.nl 55 points 2 years ago
[-] FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 14 points 2 years ago

I’ve not really been into films but recently I’ve started to pay more attention to directors and screen writers.

I really want to watch Oppenheimer as it interests me but I really really want to watch it on 70mm IMAX, I am lucky enough to love 6 miles away from one and I don’t know if it will be that good or if the marketing team has done a hell of a job.

I’ve been watching videos and reading up about IMAX and cinematography. Every showing is booked up for the first week that I checked. Even the 7am showings.

How good is 70mm imax

[-] G_Wash1776@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

70mm is the equivalent of shooting 18k digitally

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It'll be really hard to know without seeing it in both formats... I will for sure be doing IMAX since I live close to one using this format.

15/70mm film to be exact. IMAX 15/70mm is different to standard 5/70mm you would get in a normal cinema.

[-] lamprivate@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 2 years ago

There’s only a handful of IMAX theatres in the world that can play this format. Most of them are digital.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago

Our local one did, but I guess not all. It's a shame, you used to be able to watch the film being wound through windows

[-] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 13 points 2 years ago

You can still do it through Linux, if you know the right commands..

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Simply redirect standard output to the projector's file descriptor.

[-] Marypickford@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I can honestly say I do not have any Windows in my house.

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that was pretty cool to see growing up.

[-] derf82@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Digital still can’t match 70mm IMAX. In fact, IMAX film is even higher resolution than regular 70mm as the film runs through horizontally rather than vertically so more space is used for the image.

But a lot of it has moved digital. IMAX has special laser projectors. They just are not as good. Also, there is a lot of LieMAX (smaller theaters given IMAX branding) that are pretty well all digital.

[-] FiskFisk33@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

there are both, the top end is still film though as far as I understand

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