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Subject: [OM] Re: 2.35 marks on focusing screen?
From: Jim Brokaw <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:17:25 -0700
on 9/27/04 4:25 AM, Andrew Gullen at andrew.gullen@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> on 2004/09/27 12:38 AM, R.Jackson at jackson.robert.r@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>> Anyway, I was thinking about taking some location stills and cropping
>> them to 2.35 to help me think
> 
> Sorry, just curiosity... what's 2.35?
> 
> Andrew

The aspect ratio (screen width to screen height) is 2.35 to 1.00. Back in
the day this was 'Wide Screen" or "Cinerama" or something. When television
first took off in the early 1950's, wider aspect ratios was one of the
things (along with 3D and other tricks...) that Hollywood tried to keep from
losing the audience. Until that time, most all movies were 4:3 ratio, the
same as TV (which got it from movies) and also the same as most computer
monitors for a long time... Now the HDTV screens are coming out in 16:9
ratio, to imitate the movies... the circle turns <g>.
-- 

Jim Brokaw
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