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F601M - What were Nikon thinking?


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Marcus Rowland

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I picked up an F-601M (US name N6000) in Portobello Road market today - mainly to get a Sigma AF lens that was on it, which is in good condition. This one has me really puzzled - it's the cheaper brother of the F-601, and has the same electronic contacts for AF lenses, but it's manually focusing only, with a split-prism screen, and so far as I can determine the electronics were only used for metering, and there's no built-in flash.

 

According to Camera Wiki it was a cut-price model for people who didn't want to pay for the AF features.

 

Nikon F-601 (N6006) - Camera-wiki.org - The free camera encyclopedia

 

What I'm wondering is how much cheaper it actually was, and how big a market there was? Anybody know?



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Nikon were thinking that AF didn't work well with a focusing screen optimized for manual focus, focusing manually with the superbright screens of the 2nd gen AF bodies was difficult and there was still a demand for a F-301 replacement. If I remember correctly, the price difference was quite small.



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Thanks - I thought it might be something like that.