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The 11-mile long, 600 lbs IMAX print of ‘OPPENHEIMER’ (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

Some things to keep in mind about the theater experience.

Only a handful of theaters do film IMAX anymore. A lot of IMAX locations are just 4k DCP (Digital Cinema Package)
Most theaters in the world are digital projectors with a max resolution of 1998x1080 or 2048x858

Part of the reason these factors still exist is cost. A poorly maintained film projector with a lousy film print can ruin a movie going experience. Hollywood would sometimes release so very shitty prints. The digital projectors are much easier to maintain so the experience is often more ideal for the average movie goer.

Having said that, if a theater takes good care of their film projectors and they have a well made and well kept print, the experience can be amazing.

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

If you can see the film print in the opening week. Christopher Nolan makes his movies in an analog way. So it is a film process all the way though except for VFX. This is one of the only opportunities to see film that was not digitally modified. Only one place in the world can make these imax 70mm film prints and they are all basically hand made. EDIT: link changed to piped link. https://piped.video/watch?v=xa1xJIgLzFk

2k digital projection is typically used in smaller theaters where the screen size is not large enough for anyone to actually see a difference.

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

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=xa1xJIgLzFk

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

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

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

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

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

70mm film to be exact

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 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] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Resolution and color reproduction is still unmatched. Plus there are a lot of things happening in the analog domain that our eyes notice as beautiful.

Same thing is true for analog vs digital music production btw

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can't speak for video, but for audio production that isn't true. Audio signals can be perfectly reproduced, up to some frequency determined by the sample rate and up to some noise floor determined by the bit depth, digitally. Set that frequency well beyond that of human hearings and set that noise floor beyond what tape can do or what other factors determine, and you get perfect reproduction.

See here. https://youtu.be/UqiBJbREUgU

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

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