Nikon N6006 Film Camera

Nikon N6006 / N6006 QD

European Equivalent Nikon F-601 / F-601 QD

1990 Release

Auto Multi-Program [P]

Built-in hideaway retractable flash (28mm lens coverage)

Auto balanced fill-flash, Slow Sync and Rear-Curtain Sync

One 6V CR-P2 (or DL223A) lithium battery

The Nikon N6000 is a simplified version of the N6006 without AF and built-in Speedlight

The Nikon N6006 was actually announced two years after the Nikon N8008. Because of Nikon’s “numbering” many think the N8008 is a newer model when in fact it is two years older.

I bought my first N6000 in 1994 with a Tamron 28-200mm lens. Having used the Minolta X-700 for years, the Auto focus was a bit scary to me. I had heard horror stories of photographers loosing the focus on the subject they were tracking. However, in 1995, I purchased the N6006 and fell in love with my first AF camera (after I mastered the focus locking system).

Nikon only announced one SLR in 1990 and it was the N6006. Two years earlier the N8008 was announced and the N4004 in 1987. Nikon sorta melded the N8008 and the N4004 together due to the capability span between the eight and the four was so wide.

Metering systems include a 5-segment Matrix, center weighted and spot meter.

The N6006 has a great built-in Speedlight that has coverage down to a 28mm lens. The SB-24 and the SB-23 are a couple of examples of flashes that are compatible with the N6006.

This camera is built like a tank. I used my N6000 up until three years ago when the plastic connector for the back broke. Not the easy-to-fix one on the door, but the one in the camera. Repair would have cost more than the camera was worth, so I stuck with my second N6006 (the first one broke when it hit a rock in Alaska).

Unlike the some of the newer cameras, with the N6006, you can use MF lenses and not lose metering. This was nice for the era due to all the MF lenses that many long-time Nikon users still had. I used the Tamron 28-200 but still enjoyed my father’s AI-S lenses that included a 50mm f1.4 and a 105mm f2.8. Both lenses work great on my FM-10 today.

I sold the N6000 and the N6006 to a friend of mine who still uses both (after fixing the N6000’s door latch).

The only thing I have to mention that I did not like about the camera is the plastic connecting parts of the camera’s back and the battery door. However, I would not consider this a reason to shy away from this model. Take a look at the battery compartment of the Nikon D80 that was released in November 2006. Even after 16 years, Nikon still makes plastic latches and snaps for thousand dollar cameras. I am okay with it…now.

Show The World Your World; Share A Photograph. TM

Sulae--