Aaton 35 - Panavision

6.1 SUPER VS STANDARD 35MM6.1.1 The Super35 FormatSuper35 is a comeback to the cinema origins: silent cameras wereexposing all the available area between perforations of the 35mmfilm. When came the “talkies” the picture had to be reduced to giveroom to the 2.54mm-wide optical sound track. Equipment manufacturershad to shift the optical axis of all their cameras and projectorsby 2.54/2 = 1.27mm. Sixty years later Super35 is coming backbecause it records 16/9 pictures with much less of a waste than theso called “Wide-Screen” formats. For a camera to handle both formats,it must be able to align the lens mount and the viewfinderoptical axis either in the middle of the film width (Super35) or1.27mm away (Standard35).Standard 35mmSuper356.1.2 Why Shooting Super35 ?If contact prints with analog sound track is not a requirement,Super35 is the unquestionable choice for maximum resolution.This format should always be selected when it comes to shoot highquality 16/9 films for video distribution only ; all telecines are ableto “scan” the wider Super35 pictures with no modification at all.Super35 will be the format of choice for films treated throughKodak Cineon and Quantel Domino, or distributed with digitalsound tracks only. For the time being and for normal film distribution(with analog optical sound track), this format requires an opti-68