[Tig] 8k IMAX scans... 16k next

[TSassoon at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/25/08 4:41:27 AM, simon at rpsfilmimaging.co.uk writes:

> it's possible to build a much higher resolution recorder utilising a large 
> crt if there is demand for it
> 


What would make much more sense to me would be a laser recorder with a film 
gauge-agnostic transport, that could run anything from 16mm to 65mm in any 
number of perfs per frame. Surely a continuous roller transport past a vacuum 
plate with electronic position sensing can be made that's _more_ accurate than 
mechanical registration. I know that there was a proposal a decade ago for a 65mm 
laser recorder, but the worldwide market was judged at the time to be fewer 
than a half-dozen machines and it never happened.

But electronics and the IMAX market have progressed a lot since then, and the 
lasers are now all solid-state, and we have IMAX movies, even institutional 
ones, doing a full DI. Marty Mueller told me a year ago he has sold way more 
than a dozen 15-perf 65m CRT recorder camera heads, and I think as a result of 
Dark Knight we can expect a mini-boom in 65mm until digital catches up.

But Simon, you probably know the ins and outs of that better than I do?



Tim Sassoon
SFD vfx & creative post
Santa Monica, CA






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