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		petters 40 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The new literalism plaguing today’s movies > Our FOV is wide, so it's a better match. It's pretty big vertically as well. IMAX is close to 4:3

dylan604 40 days ago | [–]

I've wondered why they haven't done an anamorphic IMAX to use the full screen instead of cutting back and forth from wide to square.

Cpoll 39 days ago | [–]

I though IMAX was almost 4:2, but it looks like there are two ratios, 1.43:1 and 1.90:1. So 4:2.8 and 4:2.1.

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