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Who's shooting 47.952 or 48? Only Peter Jackson has shot that frame rate as a project frame rate. Otherwise it has been either 60 or 120 for max frame rate. 59.97 for drop frame rate 60. Either way, I don't know why Blackmagic should bother adding 47.952 or 48 as it's just not a frame rate that will ever be standard.
I'm one of the few advocates for HFR. And, I saw Gemini Man in 120 FPS 3D and loved the HFR 3D. I do have some major issues on a storytelling level with the movie, but felt the technical aspects of the HFR 3D to be perfectly well done. At the same time I won't deny that the HFR 3D made the wooden acting more obvious. I'll have a full review next week. I have to tackle it with poise since I was on set for it.
Either way, regarding HFR as a project frame rate the main standards are going to be 60 fps and maybe 120 if you are on the Ang Lee level. The main reason they're doing 120 is because it's easily divisible to 24 fps. 60 however makes more sense as a standard if not going back down to 24 because 1/60 of a second is as easy as saying 1/60 of a minute when talking about frames compared to the other basis of time in minutes and hours. Either way, the human eye can barely detect a difference between 60 fps and anything higher.
So when it comes to project frame rates I don't see a need to do anything other than 60 fps and maybe 120 fps to make it possible to do what they did on Gemini Man. No one is going to repeat The Hobbit frame rate however.