I went to Melbourne’s aquarium today. Pretty average, if it hadn’t been because of their king penguins. I don’t recall having seen them before, but my dad could probably tell you of several occasions where I have seen them. Oh well, never mind about that now. They were pretty majestic (hence the name…), but they weren’t moving much. Flapping their wings, making sounds and just looking good.
I went to watch The Dark Knight at Melbourne’s IMAX theater. That was pretty amazing. It wasn’t the entire film that was in the IMAX format, but the parts that were (mostly aerial shots, the intro, and the action sequence when transporting Dent) looked amazing. The screen was huge, I was sitting on the second row from the back (there where only app. 20 rows) and it was just possible for me to see the entire screen when looking forward.
A normal non-digital movie is filmed on a 35mm film, whereas an IMAX movie is filmed on a 70mm. The surface area of a 70mm can hold 10 of the 35mm film which says a little of the increased resolution and therefore also the possible detail. Because of the size of the reel you can only film 3 minutes of IMAX at a time before you have to enter a new reel. The time it takes to change reels? A couple of hours… 45 minutes of IMAX video results in 4,5 km long filmstrip. No wonder it isn’t many movies that are filmed in this format. The screen here in Melbourne is only the 3rd largest in the world (the one in Sydney being the largest); 32x23 meters (compare that to the one in Imperial in Copenhagen; 15,7x7,4 meters!). The projector is run using two water cooled xenon 15000 Watt light bulbs. Ah, the lovely techno-babble!
And the price for the ticket was less than 100 DKR. Compare that to a ticket at Imperial for a movie that lasts for more than 2 hours. As far as I recall, if you want a good seat, you can easily end up paying 110-120 DKR.
Watching movies will never be quite the same.
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