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?