IMAX (an acronym for
Image
MAXimum) is a
motion picture film format and a set of cinema projection standards created by
Canadian company
IMAX Corporation and developed by
Graeme Ferguson,
Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr, and William C. Shaw. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and
resolution than conventional film systems. Since 2002, some feature films have been converted (or upgraded) into IMAX format for displaying in IMAX theatres and some have also been partially shot in IMAX.