Hello All:
Perhaps a senior member can answer this question?
Recently I helped out on a small 35mm film shoot, we used short ends from a short end supplier. On one of the rolls the key code was on the wrong side, we where told this by the lab.
Now we are editing this our selves in FCP so we don't really care about the key code, and the lab tech told us we would still be able to use the image. I thought ok, phew that's good.
Then I told a DP friend of mine about this and he said that roll will be thrashed, no good. He said it happened to him once using a short end with the key code on the wrong side and the image from that roll was a disaster, all kinds of nasty stuff all over it he said.
So now I'm confused which is right? To my way of thinking we still exposed the emulsion side (of course) so what difference does it make what side the key code is on with regard to the actual image?
Thanks
Neil
