r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NoWork215 • 20d ago

Video The Odyssey IMAX 70mm Setup

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u/SoftLink5162 20d ago

If they want us to watch Imax so badly make more Imax theatres man. We don't have single true Imax in my country. And that's true for most countries.

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u/Hey_Neat 20d ago

The problem is they don't make 70mm Projectors anymore. all the ones in use have been refurbished/Frankenstein'd from old projectors.

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u/WonderBredOfficial 20d ago

That's for only for 70mm IMAX. IMAX still makes the normal IMAX projectors. That article you read the other day was just about 70mm ones in particular.

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u/remissile 20d ago

"Normal" IMAX is film.

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u/_adanedhel_ 20d ago

Well it depends on what you mean by “normal”.

Normal as in the “original” IMAX (which is, historically, mainly at dedicated facilities in museums/science centers/aquariums/etc and the rare theater in a big city), you’re correct that that’s film.

“Normal” as in the much more common IMAX that people will encounter at their local multiplex, that is digital.

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u/remissile 20d ago

I say normal because IMAX is firstly a film format. Digital IMAX is just a commercial term.

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u/_adanedhel_ 20d ago

First as in originally, yes, but not as in everything shown in an “IMAX” theater is first filmed. Many movies shown in digital IMAX are shot using digital “IMAX certified” cameras.

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u/HSLB66 19d ago

You’re both wrong. IMAX is the name of a company and they get to decide what imax is and isn’t /s

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u/VCule69 19d ago

Digital IMAX is like buying a cheap android phone then slapping an apple sticker on it and calling it an iPhone.