[photo-3d] Re: American Cinematographer & Iwerks

["Bruce Springsteen" <bsspringsteen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ray Zone wrote:

> You must have purchased the magazine mail order, Bruce, or picked
> it up in Canada because the US price is $5.95.

Ray Zone is correct - on review I see that I paid the US price, which
comforts me.  Just glanced at the mag after I got it home and read
the Canada rate, in error.  You see at the cash register my mind was
elsewhere - I just close my eyes and hand them my wallet.  ;-)
By the way, the other articles are interesting too...

> I certainly hope you feel it was worth it.  Those "schlubby movie
> people" did a pretty good job in the making of Cirque du Soleil
> "Journey of Man" though and, hey, the IMAX 3-D camera is
> in those two small 3D shots.  Thank you for buying the magazine. 
> And, if you get a chance, by all means see the film.  "Journey of
> Man" is certainly one of the finest 3-D films ever made.

I've never balked at any price for a Ray Zone product  - well, maybe
on eBay - and I am otherwise pretty frugal, so this speaks for itself.
Incidentally, there is no photo credit on the two demo pairs of the
movie schlubs - I am assuming they were shot by Ray with a Realist
format camera?

I do look forward to seeing the film for sure!  I'm a big Cirque du
Soleil fan, though never having been to a live show.  They overcome
my misgivings about traditional circuses (circi?) that deal in
miserable animals and gaudy outfits.  A costumer friend of my wife's
answered an ad they put in the trade classifieds for a wardrobe worker
with good swimming skills to help in their underwater Vegas show (if I
remember right for a change).  How can you not love an enterprise
that creates jobs like that?

I do have a technical question.  The Iwerks theater our club just
visited gave us a little backstage tour (thanks, Dave Williams) and
the guy described the system as 15/70 format.  In the article, Ray
refers to the 15/65 camera.  Is that really the same format - I'm
guessing the former refers to the total film width of 70, the latter
to an image height of 65?  It will be interesting to see the results
of the new adjustable convergence/interocular/window camera.  The
history-in-your-lap effect at "Mark Twain's America" was a bit
overwhelming after a while.

Bruce (The Closet Canadian) Springsteen