IMAX NEWS

WOW that is absolutely AMAZING!!!! Physics is very interesting :)

Was this filmed at IMAX Sydney or in the UK?????

I've always wondered - sometimes when I'm at the IMAX watching a film in 3D, I see double vision. I've never understood whether that means I'm sitting slightly off-centre, or whether because I have to wear normal glasses underneath the 3D ones, it's causing the image to go a bit funny . . . it's only slight, mind you. 3D still looks very cool when I watch it.

I would love to see IMAX adopt the dolby digital 3d method as i have seen all methods of 3d and dolby digital is in a realm of it's own. Superb clarity, depth and colour, no ghosting. Polarisation and shutter glasses are prone to ghosting as julie mentioned because LC shutter don't completely black out and polarise requires the filters to match the corresponding film projector or the image will ghost. Dolby digital 3d uses 2 filters, one for each eye with some 50 layers of film on each. One is slightly red and the other slightly blue. There is a 2 filter wheel in projector that filters each eye perspective for the corrosponding lens on glasses. because of the slight colour filtering there is a colour processor that adjusts the balance to restore perfect colour. With the glasses you see incredible 3d imagery which is superior to imax's polorisation. Because imax is film format the prints before they are made would need to be colour corrected to restore full colour but ever since i saw ice age in 3d at rouse hill in dolby theatre. I have never gone anywhere else to see 3D. the depth is incredible. i was planning to see avatar at the imax but after seeing how awefull the 35mm blown up prints where compared to imax intro, i have been detered. In order to retain quality avatar should be upscaled. meaning no distortion or edge sharpening. Just scaling eg. 4:1 or 9:1. Imax looks great with animation and movies in 70mm look good but for such a large screen precision upscaling is important to avoid a blurry image. its like watching a dvd on 1080p tv with no scaling. it will look soft and blurry. once you upscale it looks sharper and more defined. I like imax. but you need to do the format justice. Seriously, speak with dolby and see if there 3d can be used on your 70 mm projectors. Go to a dolby digital theater like reading cinemas at rouse hill. watch eg. a christmas carol then watch your imax version and you'll see the big difference. If you can and i have asked this about a month ago. can you try get the remastered 70mm print of BARAKA. It's a 70mm todd ao print. It's on bluray scanned at 8k down to 2k. The image would be incredible in your theatre also the sound aswell. the sequel SAMSARA will be released next year which also give reason for showing it.

There is another really good clip on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKr7yS9Rx6I