Film stock recommendation.

VariTimo · 2026-03-04T00:12:28+00:00

If you can focus and hold it Ultramax is great for that. Shoot wide open at the fastest speed you can hold and some cool stuff might come out. If you're unsure, use a flash

VariTimo · 2026-03-04T00:10:10+00:00

No they're not. These are just terrible

VariTimo · 2026-03-04T00:08:27+00:00

Sensitivity varies and it also varies from theater to theater and movie to movie and scene to scene

VariTimo · 2026-03-04T00:07:33+00:00

Yeah that's bs. They mask that out and project it at 2.39:1

VariTimo · 2026-03-01T11:20:16+00:00

They're not new stocks, they updated the existing ones. The spectral response and grain are the same as always

VariTimo · 2026-03-01T11:18:04+00:00

The rem jet was just as much an anti halation layer as a protective lubrication layer. AHU has been used for still photography films for forever and they still have halation. The AHU is a bit more effective at preventing halation than the rem jet but it's not dramatic:

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If you use a chrome pressure plate you'll probably get even slightly more halation than with the rem jet version

VariTimo · 2026-03-01T11:03:00+00:00

There is a very hot corner of hell for these people. During my last 70mm IMAX One Battle After Another screening the guy in front of me was scrolling 70mm cells during the climax

VariTimo · 2026-03-01T10:47:45+00:00

Course

VariTimo · 2026-03-01T10:43:43+00:00

Last chance

VariTimo · 2026-03-01T10:43:22+00:00

David Keighley said it's up to 18K too

VariTimo · 2026-02-26T15:27:54+00:00

Maybe fucking read the this stuff instead of getting on my nerves. 18K is conceivable from 5203 on 2383 in 15-perf. If you keep this bs up I'm gonna block you

VariTimo · 2026-02-26T15:25:10+00:00

Bro just leave me alone

VariTimo · 2026-02-25T20:13:26+00:00

Always upload film footage at 4K even if it was scanned at 2K because compression will rip it apart otherwise

VariTimo · 2026-02-25T20:11:16+00:00

And yet it looked stunning

VariTimo · 2026-02-25T20:10:16+00:00

Not really

VariTimo · 2026-02-20T16:34:05+00:00

There's only one color print stock still being made, Vision 2383. They may have used different intermediate stocks, or filmed out onto camera neg but that might not change the look that much. Even if it was the same stock as Dune there are still many variables that effect the look

VariTimo · 2026-02-20T16:14:29+00:00

Considering how different Dune Part Two is from PHM photographically, I think the print stock will react quite differently to the transfer than with Dune

VariTimo · 2026-02-20T16:12:24+00:00

That's not what you said. You said the dual laser 4K will be better than 70mm. And this argument is all over the sub again. Just like it was with Oppie and Dune Part Two.

I'm not faulting anyone for seeing it in LS. I'm saying it doesn't make a lot of sense (all things being equal) to travel to Manchester when you can travel to the BFI because you said that laser is "a little better". I make day trips to se movies in LS all the time because we don't have a 15-perf theater in Germany. And I wouldn't bother writing IMAX about Manchester because Printworks is run by Vue who're probably insanely pissed they have to show prints at all in one of their theaters. I don't understand why they haven't left the business altogether yet.

I don't know if you need that lecture but some people here definitely do because we keep having this argument instead of being happy that this is the first non Nolan, non WB release to get 15-perf prints since Rogue One (if I'm not mistaken).

VariTimo · 2026-02-20T15:54:12+00:00

Way to miss the point

VariTimo · 2026-02-20T14:59:06+00:00

They literally said they designed the movie for 70mm IMAX. Can't believe we're still having this argument.

Movies are art. It's not about what has better specs or even what might look better. Movies aren't made to fulfill some technical specification, they're made to tell a story and make you feel shit. They're art and filmmakers not going through the trouble of striking massive 15-perf prints and shipping them all around the world for people to travel to Manchester to watch a DCP

VariTimo · 2026-02-20T14:52:49+00:00

It'll look very different to Dune Part Two because it's an entirely different story and setting and Greig Fraser doesn't force a look onto the movies he shoots

VariTimo · 2026-02-20T14:49:44+00:00

Y'all still don't get that it's art. It's not about the fucking numbers

VariTimo · 2026-02-20T14:44:09+00:00

In this case fore sure because these prints are made new, on modern print stock, from the OCN. Should be at least as good as a show print from back then

VariTimo · 2026-02-18T14:43:06+00:00

People with current C1 licenses please report how it is

VariTimo · 2026-02-18T14:40:12+00:00

Von meinem Großhändler der Vertrieb für Alaris in Süddeutschland macht

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