Excerpt from the Canon Boot Camp Manual

When Shane Hurlbut says the Canon 5D is equivalent to a VistaVision camera, you
may wonder what he’s talking about.

Briefly, the VistaVision process was created to produce a huge image in the theater.
It uses wider-angle lenses to give greater scope on the big screen. The 35mm
negative travels horizontally through the camera frame (with eight sprocket holes
per frame instead of four), producing a negative image with an area nearly three
times the size of the standard 35mm movie image.

The Canon 5D sensor is as big as a Vistavision frame. Pictured below is a VistaVision negative on the left, and regular 35mm movie film on the right.

[NOTE: For a full history regarding VistaVision and it’s part in film history, visit the VistaVision entry in Wikipedia.]

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