[Konvas] Any One look the film AUSTRALIA

[Peter Haas]

On May 7, 2009, at 12:50 PM, colcam at aim.com wrote:

> Both 2.4 and 2.35 use the same 2x  compression, the 2.4 simply  
> allows a touch more room for the splices, so the odds are that your  
> distortion is the preferences set for the DVD/TV interface.  That  
> has proven to be a huge problem for people, with the "actual  
> displayed pixel count" and ratio not really matching up to the  
> delivered image.  You may need to set the DVD player to ratio or to  
> pixel override, otherwise it may distort things.  The best way to  
> check it is to find a shot with a large car tire image in it-- then  
> try different setting until the car tire is perfectly round.

2.66, 2.55, 2.35, 2.39 and 2.40 all apply to the same product ...  
CinemaScope.

The centering changed from 2.66/2.55 [ * ] to 2.35, abandoning Full/ 
Silent's center for the Academy's center, but Fox still shot all its  
'Scope features using Full/Silent, and no actual changes were made to  
the production equipment.

I suppose once it finally abandoned its Fox Studio Cameras for  
Panavision rentals (the Fox cameras were still used for "B" work for  
a while) then it finally converted to Academy center.

But not necessarily as Full/Silent is still an available option, and  
it became an imperative with Super-35.

My take on it is goes something like this: after a couple of  
unfortunate incidents where the special, narrower 'Scope negative  
assembly splices failed during printing, they decided to go back to  
the conventional, wider Academy negative assembly splices for 'Scope.  
Of course, the splices were then showing all over the place, and a  
reduction in height, first to 2.39 and finally to 2.40 was imposed as  
a standard.

The way current product is being transferred to DVDs, it looks as if  
it was pre-1958 2.55, and not post-1958 2.35.

[ * ] 2.66 was used in the interim while the Ampex CinemaScope  
penthouses were being completed. Once mag-striped, the prints became  
2.55.