Lenses usually aren’t impressive enough to merit any more attention than a quick glance, let alone an entire news post, but Cinemascope lenses are very unique and very rare. Since most home cinema projectors are in a wide-screen 16:9 format, they end up conflicting with the Hollywood-friendly 2.35:1 format that some films were originally shot in. The result is black bars on the top and bottom of the 16:9 picture. Cinemascope lenses will change a projected image into 2.35:1, showing the film the way it was meant to be seen. Sim2 will be one of the growing number of manufacturers to offer a 2.35:1 Cinemascope lens on its high-end projectors such as the C3X and the HT3000. While rather expensive at $9k for the manual lens and $12k for the motorized lens, Hollywood has always had a high price for luxury.

[via gspr]

This entry was posted on Monday, September 11th, 2006 at 2:49 pm. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.