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updated July 15, 2010
(added 35mm anamorphic & matte image,
removed invalid film format, made minor touches.)
Note, whenever possible, actual film frames are scanned and pictured above the specification list at precisely 180dpi to give an idea of scale. I'm missing some film formats so anyone who has access to these, please get in contact with me so I can add them to this page. Thank you.
Regular
8mm frame dimensions
Camera
aperture size (HxW): 3.68 x 4.88mm
Frame
area: 17.96sq. mm
Aspect
ratio: 1.33:1
16:9
useable frame area: 13.4sq. mm
(75%)
normal frame rate: 16fps
Super-8
frame dimensions
Camera
aperture size (HxW): 4.22 x 5.63mm
Width:
1.15x Standard8
Frame
area: 23.76sq. mm (1.32x standard
8)
Aspect
ratio: 1.33:1
16:9
useable frame area: 17.83sq. mm (75%)
normal frame rate: 18 or 24fps
Super-Duper-8 frame
dimensions
Camera
aperture size (HxW) 4.22 x 6.36mm
width:
1.13x Super-8
frame
area: 26.84sq. mm (1.13x Super-8)
Aspect
ratio: 1.5:1
16:9
useable frame area: 22.75sq. mm (85%)
Normal
frame rate: 24fps
16mm
top to bottom: silent, optical sound, magnetic
sound.
Camera
aperture size (HxW): 7.49 x 10.26mm
Frame
area: 76.85sq. mm (3.23x super 8)
Aspect
ratio: 1.33:1
16:9
useable frame area: 59.21sq. mm (75%)
normal frame rate: 24 or 30fps
Super-16
Camera
aperture size (HxW): 7.42mm x 12.52mm
Width:
1.21x Standard 16
Frame
area: 92.9sq. mm (1.21x Standard 16)
Aspect
ratio: 1.66:1
16.9
useable frame area: 88.17sq. mm (95%)
normal frame rate: 24 or 30fps
Ultra-16
Note, Ultra-16 was invented specifically for blow up to 35mm
matte
without additional negative cropping or recentering the camera
lens.
Camera
aperture size (HxW): 6.15mm x 11.4mm
Width:
1.11x Standard 16
Frame
area: 70.11sq. mm (.91x Standard 16)
Aspect
ratio: 1.85:1
normal frame rate: 24fps
35mm
Academy
frame is slightly shrunken to
allow
room for the sound tracks on the right.
Camera aperture size (HxW):
15.24mm x 20.96mm
Frame
width: 1.67 x Super-16
Frame area: 319.43sq. mm
(3.44x Super 16)Aspect
ratio: 1.38:1
16:9
usable frame area: 248.20mm (78%)
normal frame rate: 18 (original) or 24fps (modern)
35mm Matte
The widescreen image for most films comes
from masking off the
top/bottom of the frame.
Camera
aperture size (HxW): 11.33mm x 20.96mm
Frame width: same as Academy
Frame area: 237.47sq. mm
(.74x Academy)Aspect
ratio: 1.85:1
16:9 usable frame area: 228.21mm (96%)
normal frame rate: 24fps
Super-35
Camera
aperture size (HxW): 10.6mm x 24.92mm
frame
area: 264.25sq. mm (1.12X Matte) smaller than the obsolete academy
format
Aspect
ratio: 2.35:1
Normal frame rate: 24fps
MaxiVision
(3-perf)
Camera
aperture size (HxW): 12.99mm x 24mm
frame
area: 311.76mm (.98x academy) very slightly smaller than the extinct academy
format
Aspect
ratio: 1.85:1
Normal
frame rate: 24 and 48fps (both rates are used in the same
viewing)

35mm
Anamorphic
note, the image is squeezed to fit a wider image
into
the frame which will be undone upon projection.
Outside the
perforations is the SDDS sound,
beween perfs on right is Dolby Digital,
just inside the perfs is the analogue sound track
pushed obviously into
distortion due to the loudness war,
between that & the frame is the time
code for DTS
Camera
aperture size (HxW): 18.67 x 22.1mm
Frame
area: 412.6sq. mm (1.29x Academy)
Aspect
ratio: 1.18:1 (native), 2.36:1 (expanded)
normal frame rate: 24fps
35mm
Full Aperture
Camera
aperture size (HxW): 18.67 x 24.92mm
Width:
1.19x Academy
Frame
area: 465.26sq. mm (1.13x Anamorphic)
Aspect
ratio: 1.33:1
16.9
useable frame area: 349.32sq. mm (75%)
normal frame rate: 24fps
35mm
Vista Vision (8 perf)
Camera
aperture size (HxW): 18.36mm x 37.59mm
Frame
width 1.51x Full Aperture
Frame
area: 690.15sq. mm (1.48x Full Aperture)
Width:
1.52x Full Aperture
Aspect
ratio: 1.51:1 (native)
normal
frame rate: 24fps
65mm
Standard
Camera
aperature size (HxW): 22.04x48.59mm
Frame
area: 1070.92sq. mm (1.55x
VistaVision)
Aspect
ratio: 2.2:1
normal
frame rate: 24 (super Panavision, Super Technirama) or 30fps (Todd
AO)
70mm
65mm is printed to 70mm to store sound tracks.
70mm 15
perf IMAX
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