Kodak KeyKode question? PING: MULLEN, NORWOOD, DORSEY!

David,

Thanks a bunch for the info!

A.N.D.

davidm2.DeleteThis@earthlink.net wrote:
> The film comes with keycode and edgecode already exposed on the
> emulsion (I assume it's a form of exposure that puts a latent image of
> the code on the edge of the film.)
>
> Arricode or Aatoncode, which are forms of timecode, are exposed
> in-camera at the time of shooting.
>
> Workprints & mag rolls after they have been synced-up on a flatbed will
> sometimes then get matching numbers ink-printed on the edges.
>
> David Mullen, ASC
> Los Angeles
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A New Dawn <anewdawn DeleteThis @6url.com> wrote:
>Does Kodak KeyKode exist, already exposed, on the film from the
>factory?

Both keycode and edge numbers are on _most_ camera films from the lab.
I think there are some reversal stocks that do not come with keycode,
just latent edge numbers.

>Or does the lab expose/scan the edge numbers and such when it develops
>the film?

Since the latent edge numbers on 16mm film are bloody near impossible to
read, a lot of folks who are using the numbers and not the keycode will
have the lab rubber-stamp new and more readable numbers on the film.

>And does Double Super 8mm (DS-8) have KeyKode?

Who the hell knows? Since it's reperforated stock, it's got whatever
the stock the reperforating guy decided to buy that week. I would not
count on it.
--scott
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