OT: Harry Potter (was Re: Yet Another cabe Pretty Printer)

[Bill Vermillion]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 09:46:53PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth thus spoke:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 05:38:43PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> > "Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> > [...]
> > > I suspect I'm going to be cleaning up the rest of my documentor (that's
> > > kind of like dementor, for you Potter fans :-) package over the next
> > > few weeks...

> > We took the kids to see The Prisoner of Azkaban last weekend.
> > They loved it. (Of course, this being the first time I've
> > seen an HP movie after having read the book, I can see just
> > how much detail was taken out of the movie version. It's
> > still a good movie, though. It would have to be a long TV
> > miniseries to get everything from the book.)

> At least. I have not read any of the books recently; I was
> planning on enjoying the movies. :-)

> > There's a theater in this area showing it in IMAX.

> I personally can't imagine the 35 to 90mm blowup is that impressive.

It was shot in Super35.

But one reason for using horizontal IMAX is you don't have the
problems with the anamophic 35mm projection.   You lose more
brightness and contrast when you stretch it out and therefore by
using IMAX you retain more contrast and brightness, though you are
still limited in resolution of the original.

Bill


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