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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

11 miles ~ 18km

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or approximately 2400 cheeseburgers for the Americans in the audience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's almost a years worth!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That will fit nicely in my 32gb micro sdxc the size of a fingernail.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure I'm wrong, but it's hard to imagine this being better quality than what we can do digitally these days.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are in fact wrong lol. Actual film has a resolution equivalent of something like 18K.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasn't normal 35mm film about the equivalent of somewhere between 4k and 8k depending on the film stock?

Plus, the projector optics will always limit the sharpness of the picture. No lense is ideal, and even ideal lenses would have fundamental limitations due to diffraction.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something like that.

As far as lens optics, we’re really splitting hairs here. 70mm through a quality lens in an imax theater is going to look absolutely fantastic and stunning. Digital is just more convenient and at some point it will catch up and surpass film.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My point was more like that even IMAX film doesn't quite get to 18k equivalent, more like 12 to 16k. Honestly, anything above 4k (for normal widescreen content) even on big screens is barely noticeable if noticeable at all. THX recommends that the screen should cover 40° of your FOV; IMAX is what, 70°, so 8k for it is already good enough. Extra resolution is not useful if human eye can't tell the difference; it just gets to the meaningless bragging rights territory like 192 kHz audio and DAC-s with 140 dB+ S/N ratio. Contrast, black levels, shadow details, color accuracy are IMO more important than raw resolution at which modern 8k cameras are good enough and 16k digital cameras will be more than plenty.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This obsession with the length and weight of the film is such a bizarre marketing strategy.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, we all know girth is what matters.