Comparison: See More Of 'Skyfall' In IMAX

The latest installment of the James Bond series hits theaters this week, and this is one of the movies for which IMAX offers a special enhanced experience. Skyfall was not shot with IMAX film cameras like The Dark Knight and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol were. In fact, it wan't even shot on film – Roger Deakins shot most of the movie with the Arri Alexa M digital camera. Deakins and director Sam Mendes shot the entire film framing for not only the 2.35:1 theatrical aspect ratio, but also a 1:90:1 aspect ratio for the IMAX version of the movie. The result is that you see more in the IMAX version of the movie.

IMAX's presentation of SKYFALL has been specially formatted to feature a larger aspect ratio (the relationship between an image's width and height) for the entirety of the film. The IMAX team worked with filmmakers in the post-production process to increase the aspect ratio of the film and designed the IMAX presentation of SKYFALL to allow audiences to see up to 26% more of the originally captured image than the conventional release.

IMAX has sent over the comparison chart above to show you the difference. They have also released a pretty standard featurette promoting the IMAX version of the film. Unfortunately the featurette doesn't go into much depth about the different aspect ratio of the IMAX release (maybe they think that is too technical or boring for general moviegoers?).