I'm currently working with a Nikon N70 film camera and 35mm film. When the roll is exposed one is instructed to simultaniously push two button to activate the film rewind, which will pull the entire film back into the canister. Question is: how can this be stopped before the film leader does not end up in the canister too? I'm trying to avoid having to deal with a film-leader retriever which are a pain.
Hello Ralph,
just ask the official Nikon Service in Germany whether they can reprogram the N70 for the leader-out option.
I know for sure - because Nikon service had done it for me and photographer friends of mine in the past - that this has been possible for the Nikon models
- F90 / F90X
- F80
- F100
- F5 (as the F5 has also the classic rewind crank for manual film rewind and is counting backwords when rewinding having the leader-out is always possible by manual film rewind).
But I am not sure concerning the F70. Just ask them.
The F6 has fortunately this option already built in: You can choose between the two options
- leader-in
- leader out
after automatic / motorized film rewind.
And as the F6 has also the classic rewind crank for manual film rewind and is counting backwords when rewinding having the leader-out is always possible by manual film rewind, too.
Best regards,
Henning