09-29-2015, 10:10 PM
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Blu-ray Ninja
Sep 2010
UK
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Originally Posted by Geoff D
And I question it - as others have done with this conundrum - because of the maths, as you simply can't yield a negative area of 2.55 from that process; the 8-perf aperture is 1.50 or thereabouts so with a 1.5x squeeze you get 2.25, which is perfect for 70mm 2.20 release prints (if any) or slightly matted down for the anamorphic 35mm 2.35 prints. And yet...the 2.55 Leopard does have more picture area than the other examples, so either the maths are wrong or the picture was shot with 2.55 matting in mind, and all video transfers up until the restoration were derived from that specific 2.55 headroom, having to be cropped to fit. How bizarre.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Geoff D
That's about the size of it, yep. Me  too, but it's not just us as there are several debates about this on several other forums and no-one, not even the noted heavyweights, have seemingly weighed in with a definitive answer. |
This does seem to be the most logical explanation.
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