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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
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Subject: Re: shuttle films to be made
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Date: Fri, 16-Mar-84 20:12:13 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 16 20:12:13 1984
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"Hail Columbia" is an IMAX/Omnimax film.  I know the IMAX people have
been trying to get one of their cameras on a shuttle flight, perhaps
this is what the news report was about.

Technical details:  IMAX uses 70mm film travelling sideways, 15 perforations
per frame.  There is over twice the film area per frame than "ordinary"
70mm film.  It's designed to be projected on very large screens that fill
most of your field of view.  Omnimax uses the same technology, but the
screen is a hemisphere (usually a planetarium dome or similar) and is shot
with a fisheye lens on the camera.

I wouldn't have high hopes of long sequences of film from the shuttle.
1000 feet is the longest length of film that the camera will take, and
that lasts only 3 minutes.  But whatever they get, it will be spectacular.

	Dave Martindale

P.S. IMAX was developed in Ontario (Canada)