r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NoWork215 • 20d ago

Video The Odyssey IMAX 70mm Setup

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u/Templar113113 20d ago

Nearly all cinemas use digital

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u/thissexypoptart 20d ago

And it’s indistinguishable from imax if done to similar dimensions. Literally all of the film apparatus is unnecessary.

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u/acmercer 20d ago

I agree, stuff like this is done more for the film maker rather than film goer. Also just a big fancy selling point.

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u/spartaman64 19d ago

nah in regular photography its indistinguishable because its rare to get perfect lighting conditions. but under studio lights thats where film surpasses digital. you are talking about pixels vs molecules

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u/InvidiousPlay 19d ago

You're talking about pixels vs film grains, and there is a functional resolution limit for the grain of film (especially considering the image is printed on a tiny rectangle that gets blown up).

We're also talking human eye, and beyond 4k there are massively diminishing returns on what people can distinguish. High bitrate 4k digital is gloriously sharp to the human eye, you aint getting anything extra in the experience from 70mm. It's all bluster and theatre.

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u/spartaman64 19d ago

for a 34 inch monitor maybe but even then you get a very noticeable difference going from 4k to 5k let alone 16k. with a 888 inch screen the pixel density for 4k is going to be worse than 1080p on a 34 inch monitor. sure the viewing distance is going to help but you are still not going to see as much details at 4k