From: Ed Inman (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Jun 14 2009 - 14:00:19 PDT
Only a few specialty cinemas will likely be set up for anything other than 1.85 flat or 2.35 scope, although most cinema equipment dealers can easily enough order the necessary additional aperture plates for whatever projector is being used.
There is also no shortage of older used lenses sitting around in warehouses for $50 or $100 a pop, although new ones can cost thousands of dollars.
If you know the exact footage from the projector to the screen there is a lens calculator downloadable at film-tech.com that will guide you as to what length lenses are needed for various formats.
Ed
-----Original Message-----
>From: Myron Ort <email suppressed>
>Sent: Jun 14, 2009 2:49 PM
>To: email suppressed
>Subject: Re: 35mm projection options
>
>Do venues which show 35mm film usually have all the gate options?
>
>Say, If I have a print which is "1:33 full" (with soundtrack), can I
>assume venues which show 35mm can accommodate? Say I have a film
>which is "Super 35mm raw" that is to say "Ye Olde Edison silent
>format" ?
>Seems like a big can of worms to me at this point. Maybe I am making
>this more complicated than it is.
>
>(much of my thinking here is due to economics, that is, avoiding
>expensive optical reformatting lab work)
>
>What 35mm format is "Garden of Earthly Delights", for example.
>
>Myron Ort
>
>
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