Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: shuttle films to be made Message-ID: <2260@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Mar-84 20:12:13 EST Article-I.D.: watcgl.2260 Posted: Fri Mar 16 20:12:13 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Mar-84 03:54:01 EST References: <871@cvl.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 18 "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)