Owen, I have 3 bodies (2 F90 bodies, and 1 F90x body), and I had all three programmed to leave film leader out. Even with 3 bodies, I still do a fair amount of changing film in and out half-way through the roll. It has to do with me having print film in the one body for snapshots, and slide film in the other two bodies for my own personal work. When I do a shoot for someone else, I then need to change to whatever film they want it shot on, whether print or slide, and I obviously need to rewind my roll of film. Why do I keep all three bodies loaded with *my* film ?? Because it would be odd to have a high-spec body laying around, without any film. You lose shots changing lenses the whole time, so why not use different lenses on two bodies ?? So both my bodies with slide film are always loaded with film. Why don't I just continue to shoot for the client on whichever body has whichever type of film ?? Because the client usually wants the sheets of transparencies, and would be suspicious if one of the sheets started on half a roll of film, and not with frame 1. (It is just easier all round to shoot for any client specifically on a new roll of film. And imagine for example, trying to tell a lab to just an idenx print of the first 14 shots, and then do 5x7 prints of the rest -- it is just easier to shoot on differnt rolls of film.) Using a film leader extractor is clumsy, as opposed to just popping out of the camera body with the film with leader already out. I haven't had any problems with multiple exposures, since I make sure I double rewind all films I want the leader IN. It takes a conscious decision to do it, and you get used to that way of operating your camera - by just double rewinding every roll. btw .. the top-of-the-line Pentax body, the Pentax Z-1p, also allows the user the choice of whether to have the film leader in or out at will, just like Canon and Minolta's top-end cameras do. So of the four main manufacturers, Nikon is the (clumsy) odd one out. Neil http://www.icon.co.za/~south/
