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AF- D. enlarge. Introduction top. Intro Accessories Specs Performance Compare Recommendations More. I love my F6. The F6 is the best 3. SLR I've ever used. Just a few of the many things that stand out about the F6 are: Infallible Exposure Meter The F6 has an infallible color matrix meter. It always gives me vivid, perfect exposures, even with old manual focus lenses. I shoot slides, and exposure is everything.
I get perfect exposures regardless of whatever crazy lighting I can throw at my F6. Infallible means it never gets fooled; it cannot fix bad or too- contrasty lighting. Feels Great The F6 is a reasonable size, it's not a pig like the F5. The F6 feels great and sounds even better. It's an ergonomic joy to hold; not klunky and uncomfortable like my Canon 5.
D Mark II. Nikon is very proud of the quiet and refined sounds the F6 makes. Even in rewind it sounds precise and quiet. The Cs (silent) mode is particularly pleasant. It's not chattery as the Cs mode of the F4 and F5; the Cs mode of the F6 is exquisite Full EXIF Data Logging The F6 records and logs full EXIF data to CF cards with an accessory MV- 1 card reader. Ever since I was 1.
I've been using pencil and paper to log every exposure. I hate that! With the F6 I save the data file along with my film scans, and print out a sheet to file with each roll of film, making my technical shooting much, much easier. Decades of Compatibility F6 is completely compatible with every Nikon lens made since 1. AI converted. For $1. Nikon will adapt the F6 to work with almost all Nikon lenses ever made since 1. History. The. previous Nikon F5 was introduced in 1. The F5, like its predecessors, the F4, F3, F2 and F were.
Some rich amateurs. In the 2. 00. 0s 3. The F6 was designed to appeal today instead to rich amateur photographers. See an interview with the designer of the F6, and you'll see that Nikon set out to make the F6 for a different customer than the F5. Nikon knew that digital had killed 3.
Nikon designed the F6 to be the smoothest and most refined 3. SLR ever, and they succeeded. Nikon is very proud of the quiet sounds of the F6. My F6 is very much like my F1.
Title: Nikon F6 Service Repair Manual, Author: MildredMears, Name: nikon_f6_service_repair_manual.pdf, Length: 5 pages, Published: 2013-10-01T00:00:00.000Z.
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In an effort to clearly communicate my hopes of the F6’s visit to Nikon Service. ports on the Nikon F6, Nikon. Manual or Aperture Priority so I have to. Where can I download an instruction manual for my Nikon F6 film camera? F6 Instruction Manual 16295. Repair Service; Service Advisories; Nikon Professional Services. Nikon F6 Service Repair Manual DOWNLOAD HERE This Service & Repair manual is used by the official Technicians It will help you to. The Nikon F6 is a 35mm film single-lens reflex camera body that became commercially available during 2004, and is the sixth top-of-the-line professional film camera. Nikon F6 and Nikon 50mm f/1.4 AF-D. enlarge. Nikon F6. enlarge. All AF and manual lenses work fine. These places have the best prices and service.
MB- 4. 0 Battery Grip. Gives a vertical grip and controls, up to 8 FPS and 4s rewind speed. It comes with an MS- 4. Battery Tray to use 8- AA cells.
To use an EN- EL4a lithium battery instead, you have to buy and use the BL- 3 Battery Chamber Cover (not included). MV- 1 EXIF Data recorder. Focus screens. DK- 1. A Antifog Eyepiece. MS- 4. 1 Lithium Battery Tray (replacement, holds two CR1. Specifications top.
Intro Accessories Specs Performance Compare Recommendations More. Lens Compatibility. Nikon F6. enlarge.
All AF and manual lenses work fine. Matrix metering with everything made since 1. Program or Shutter- priority mode with manual lenses.
No full- time mirror lock- up, so you can't use some of the 1. Pre- 1. 97. 7 (pre- AI or F) lenses will either need to be upgraded to AI, or Nikon offers an upgrade to the F6 that allows attaching ancient F- mount lenses. If you upgrade your F6 instead of your old lenses, you'll have to use stop- down metering.
Autofocus. 11 AF. Sadly they are all in square rows and columns, not where I want them. Canon places them better. Up- Down- Left- Right Thumb Selector Lock. Dopey mechanical one, which means that if you lock it to prevent inadvertently changing your selected AF area, that you'll have to unlock it to navigate menus.
I prefer the lock on my D2. Finder. 10. 0%, which I hate because slide mounts cut off part of what my finder shows. I greatly prefer the more typical 9. The. F6 has no interchangeable finders as the other top F series have had.
The F6 does have a slew of interchangeable focus screens; I want to get the one with the microprism and split- image for manual lenses. Meter. Infallible 1,0. RGB meter, presume at least as good as the fantastic D7. I've ever used. Frame Rate.
FPS with two standard CR1. A cells. 8. FPS with 8- AA batteries in the big MB- 4. Shutter. Bulb, 3. Default longest manual speed is 3. MENU > CSM MENU > b Metering/Exp > 5 Shutter Speed > (Extend Shtr.
Spd) > ON and it goes all the way to 3. Sync only 1/2. 50. SLRs. This is the one area where an improvement would. Maximum Shutter Speed with Regular Flash (sync speed)1/2. PC Flash Sync Terminal. Yes, with tethered cap.
This is used with studio strobes. The tethered caps are far more convenient than the old screw- off and lose them kind. Flash Controli- TTL. TTL flash, either of which are excellent.
This includes wireless remote control just like the D2. Xs: you need an SB- 8.
SU- 8. 00 on- camera as a trigger. This means it. works great with every flash ever made, which is better than Nikon's DSLRs which work only the latest SB- 6. SB- 8. 00. You. need the newest i- TTL mode for digital, however for film the traditional. TTL mode is extraordinary.
My F6 seems to work perfectly with my old SB- 2. I can dial in rear sync or whatever with it. Mirror Lock- Up. The Nikon F6 has an MLU mode to pop up the mirror before the shutter releases for ultra- tele and long exposures.
It's idiotic: you have to spin the top left dial to Mup. Now the mirror flips up when you hit the shutter (or preferably the remote cord) the first time. The mirror stays up, and the shutter goes when you hit the shutter the second time. If you just use your finger, the shutter will go off on its own out of boredom after 3.
Another reason this it so idiotic is because the next day, when your top left advance mode dial is still in the Mup position, when you hit the shutter, the finder blacks out and nothing happens. When you finally remember that the advance mode was set to Mup from last night, you just took a photo of your foot when the shutter goes off after 3. Nikon did this far better in the FE, where the mirror flipped up on its own at the begriming of the self timer interval. The F6 has no traditional permanent MLU for use with old ultrawides which poke into the body. Remote Cable Release. Annoying Nikon- standard 1.
Nice tethered cap prevents loss of the old screw- off types. No standard cable release socket. Data Back. Standard. Imprints in- between frames and/or in your images (which destroys them for most non- forensic uses) and/or or some limited data imprinting on the leader in front of frame 1. Intervalometer. Standard. This lets you leave your F6 unattended and have it shoot away all by itself at intervals.
Power. Two CR1. 23. A batteries in the standard little MS- 4. Optional huge MB- 4.
AA cells (throw- away lithium or alkaline, or rechargeable AA Ni- MH or dedicated EN- EL4.) Body Cap Comes with a special one that "Nikon F6" on the front. Also uses the BF- 1. A. The book says don't use the BF- 1. I need to find a BF- 1, try it, and see what breaks.
Weight 3. 5. 4. 95 oz. CR1. 23. A lithium batteries but no caps, lens or strap. Nikon specifies 3.
I shoot. Announced 1. September 2. 00. 4, along with its forgotten digital sister, the D2. X. Available Shipping since October 2. Price, USAMarch 2.
August 2. 01. 3: $2,4. August 2. 01. 1: $2,4. October and November 2.
Nikon Product Number. Performance top. Intro Accessories Specs Performance Compare Recommendations More. Construction and Feel. My F6 feels like a rubber- covered brick. More precisely, a very ergonomically shaped rubber- covered brick.
My F6 feels solid and precise, but not like a carved magnesium boat anchor like the F5. My F6 also doesn't feel like solid metal like the F, F2. AS and F3. HP. The F6 feels like an upgraded F1. The F6's back is solid and precise metal, while my F1.
Unlike the previous F- series professional cameras, the F6 has no safety catch for the back. Pull up the solid metal rewind crank, and it pops open. Full EXIF Data on CF Cards — from a Film Camera? YES! The F6 logs all the data, so you can: 1.) Get instant EXIF data readout. Program the F6 properly, and by pressing the INFO button you can see all the EXIF shooting data for the frame you just shot!
The F6 has enough internal memory to log at least 3. You can get a $1. MV- 1 which lets the camera copy this data onto a CF card for posterity. The F6 has a standard imprinting back, so you can have some data imprinted between frames or ruin images with the data on the image itself. You can have some basic data imprinted on the leader before frame 1, but it's only the date or roll number, not data for all the frames in the roll.
Page 1. 32 of the US manual shows an interesting throwback: if you use an imprint to say what metering pattern was used, if the F6 needs to imprint Matrix Metering, it imprints as "Am. P." Heh heh, that was what Matrix Metering was called when it first came out in the Nikon FA of 1. Nikon cooked up the catchy phrase "Matrix." AMP means Automatic Multi- Pattern. Cool; for all I know, maybe Nikon still uses AMP internally or internationally, or maybe that's all they could fit into a 7- segment character format.
MV- 1 Data Reader. Nikon MV- 1 Data Reader.
IC=NIMV1& BI=2. KBID=1. 03. 7The MV- 1 took 1. MB CF card. It took longer to read the manual than to do it. To download 1. 4 rolls of 3.