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From: ron@brl-vgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: IMAX/OMNIMAX camera
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Date: Mon, 26-Mar-84 07:47:53 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 26 07:47:53 1984
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It is both the high cost (all though this is probably just an excuse)
and the fact that an IMAX projector, with it's reels is a big sucker.
You just couldn't fit two of them anywhere near close to being on axis.
The OMNIMAX at the Fleet Planetarium in San Diego barely fits as it is.
The projector is threaded below the floor and hauled up into position
by chains.  The reels stay put, making a rather long run.  The IMAX in
the Air and Space Museum in D.C. has two 35/70mm projectors, one to each
side of the IMAX projector.  They're not really good because they have
to be so far to the sides of the projection room because the IMAX projector
takes up so much room.

-Ron