What is the big deal about IMAX?
Unparalleled brightness and brilliant clarity. Clarity, detail and size make IMAX more than a movie. Our remastering — or DMR — process fully transforms every frame of a film to produce the best possible version of a filmmaker’s vision. But seeing a movie in an IMAX® theatre is so much more.
Who created IMAX?
Graeme Ferguson
Roman KroitorRobert Kerr
IMAX Corporation/Founders
Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr, and William C. Shaw were the co-founders of what would be named the IMAX Corporation (founded in September 1967 as Multiscreen Corporation, Limited), and they developed the first IMAX cinema projection standards in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Canada.
Are all IMAX theaters domed?
To answer your title question, no, not all IMAX theaters are domed… even true IMAX has more flat-style screens… in fact, the original IMAX screens were only slightly curved. A special setup had to be made for the domed screens you’ve seen.
What are the disadvantages of digital IMAX?
Another disadvantage is the much lower resolution of digital IMAX compared to traditional IMAX film, which is estimated to be up to 8,700 lines of vertical resolution on the camera negative and 4,500 on a release print.
Can IMAX movies be projected on an OMNIMAX screen?
Regular Imax films can be projected on an Omnimax screen, but will be skewed on the edges, since they weren’t filmed in Omnimax. With so few Imax films being Omnimax, there’s no great demand for Omnimax theaters, which I can imagine to be more expensive than regular Imax theaters.
Is Infinity War the first movie to be filmed in IMAX?
According to the Wikipedia article, yes… In May 2015, it was announced that Marvel Studios’s two-part film, Avengers: Infinity War, will be filmed entirely in IMAX, the first Hollywood feature film to do so, using a modified version of Arri’s Alexa 65 digital camera.