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Author Topic: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - IMAX 3D question Julio Roberto Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 938 From: Madrid, Madrid, Spain Registered: Oct 2008 posted 08-28-2009 06:05 PM                    Well, only The Dark Knight (and also one of the Transformers, right?) did the stunt of shooting a few scenes in Imax 70/15 (65/15 ) For all the rest of the movies, Imax just takes the digital files that make them up (remember, even 35mm-shot movies get scanned and edited/colored/Fx'ed/finished as digital intermediates) and they denoise them, upscale them, and, in the case of Potter, fake 3D for a few scenes before printing the movie out to 70mm stock. If you are lucky and start blowing up a 4K Digital Intermediate, then good for you as your average multiplex is 2K-only (except, i.e., Sony). If you start with a 2K DI, which is the norm today for 95% of the movies, you can still get a tiny quality advantage as you are using the "pristine" DI which, after all the processing and upscaling and printing to film, keeps a large part of its quality while some of it is lost in the JP2K compression, potential scaling and convertion to DCP. But we are talking very small quality gains. Tiny-tiny.  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 08-29-2009 05:41 PM                     Thank you. So maybe I prefer to save some pounds and watch the movie in a regular cinema... Or spend some more pounds and watch it at Empire 1! Marco  |  IP: Logged Caleb Johnstone-Cowan Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 593 From: London, UK Registered: Mar 2006 posted 08-31-2009 09:08 PM                     If you really want to pay to sit through the film just shell out the extra £3 (compared to Empire 1) and watch it at the IMAX. The 3D and the big screen will detract from how bad the story and some of the acting is. Some of Transformers 2 is shot in 15/70.  |  IP: Logged

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