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Originally Posted by teranova
I agree that it wouldn't be true IMAX but I'm pretty sure that's what the article said i.e. for technical and economical reasons they were going to abandon the original IMAX format and just enlarge a 35mm print to 70mm. I would guess that the resulting product wouldn't be as crisp or detailed as a genuine IMAX 70mm shot film. (I got the impression it wasn't just going to be a wide screen 70mm film, as shown in your illustration, but close to the look of an IMAX projection)
Edit: Just Googled IMAX and found that Wikipedia has a fairly long article about IMAX. They refer to the process to blow up standard 35mm films to IMAX 70 mm as DMR (Digital Re-mastering)
BTW: Thanks for your input!
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What you are talking about is when they "blow up" 35mm negatives to print to IMAX and call it; The IMAX Experience."
That is for presentations of Hollywood films at an IMAX theater.
IMAX has installed some digital projecters in some of their theaters - specifically the new ones. They convert the 15/70 negative to digital format and use Christie (?) 2K projecters instead of 15/70 prints.
But the taking negative is still 15/70 because most of the 900+ IMAX theatrs still use 15/70 film.