Welcome to our community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Register Log in
  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Imax Filmout!

Harry Clark

Harry Clark

Well-known member
Joined
Dec 29, 2006
Messages
1,791
Reaction score
0
Points
36
Location
NYC
Here are some photos of me on a shoot this week for Norvartis. Prelight today. The end result will be filmed out to IMAX. I'm holding the film from a test that we shot last month to test the process. I was working and could not attend yesterday's screening but apparently everyone was mightily impressed.
Sorry for the poor quality of the photos... just a quick snap by the producer. I've also attached a shot from the original frame that you see on the piece of film (the filmout used the 18-100 but I could not find that file; this one is the 9-50)
Hot stuff!
I'll keep everyone posted.
Cheers,
Harry
 
your slate on the test says 2k, did you blow up 2k for the Imax?
 
No, no... like I said, the IMAX test shot was with the 18-100. We did that at 4K. I only put up the 9-50 test frame (16mm lens) which we did at 2K, as a reference. For some reason I don't have the other TIFFs, including the 18-100 shot, on my laptop (maybe I'll repost when I get home)
Sorry for the confusion.
Harry
 
ahh see senior. I should have read the red thread better.

This is really exciting stuff. I have a friend who is a projectionist at an Imax
and have a piece of the film, pretty crazy big!.

congrats
 
interesting
 
Filmout was Fotokem.
Apparently, screening it here (NYC) was problematic because not to many IMAX theaters were interested in the interruption to their schedules. I think they went to a third party theatre in Hempstead, on Long Island.
Cheers,
Harry
 
What resolution has IMAX printer?
 
I'm sorry, this might seem obvious for everybody else, but was this a film out from RED originated material? And the 18-100 is a lens, a Cooke?
 
harryclark said:
Filmout was Fotokem. Apparently, screening it here (NYC) was problematic because not to many IMAX theaters were interested in the interruption to their schedules. I think they went to a third party theatre in Hempstead, on Long Island.
Click to expand...

Interesting! I thought there is only one IMAX in Hempstead, this one: http://www.cradleofaviation.org/IMAX/imaxf.html
which is a dome theatre. Is that kind of IMAX able to project rectilinear images? I thought normally it used fisheye lenses on both the taking camera and projector.
 
harryclark said:
Filmout was Fotokem.
Apparently, screening it here (NYC) was problematic because not to many IMAX theaters were interested in the interruption to their schedules.
Click to expand...

We're spoiled here in Toronto. I'm a 5 minute drive from the world's smallest Imax theatre (about 30 seats at Imax headquarters)! Toronto has at least 6 other Imax screens that I know of as well!
 
ahhahhh. Nothing escapes the watchful eyes of the reduser community. Yes its a dome screen facility and our project is for flat screen projection. It was just they only theater available and willing.
yes Rudi, originated on Red #344... Cooke 18-100 zoom. The greenscreen test was with my S4s but the post guys chose the shot of Jay with the 18-100 for the non-green shot.
cheers,
harry
 
This is all very exciting. Looking forward to the results.
 
CrewPix.com said:
We're spoiled here in Toronto. I'm a 5 minute drive from the world's smallest Imax theatre (about 30 seats at Imax headquarters)! Toronto has at least 6 other Imax screens that I know of as well!
Click to expand...

i hate you i live in regina we have 1 imax screen and they only show educational films ;)
 
It will be interesting to hear how this goes.

I think something like the new EOS-1Ds Mark III top-end DLSR shooting timelapse (nearly 6K at 5616 x 3744) would also blow up nicely to IMAX. This would allow an average joe to shoot an "IMAX" picture that would probably hold up decently on that huge screen.
 
I would venture to say you are correct Tom.
Cheers,
Harry
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top