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

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:14:30AM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> > I personally can't imagine the 35 to 90mm blowup is that impressive.
> 
> It was shot in Super35.

Ah.  Haven't been reading AC as regularly as I used to...

> 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.

So the optical printer doesn't have those problems when doing the
anamorphic stretch?

Cheers,
-- jra
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