It is a 2000 model, prior to the rewind shaft upgrade by Nikon, though it looks and functions like a new camera. I got mine from a camera shop in NY two years ago for $200, mint & boxed. With that said, I'd take a like new F5 at $500 dollars over a new F6 at $2500, any day.įrankly, I can't even see much reason to bother with either right now, when virtually unused F100 bodies are still available for less than $200 on eBay and elsewhere. That's not exactly a desirable quality when looking to take a camera out for a mere roll or two of shooting. But then you have the problem of a perpetual brick which will always require no less than eight AA batteries to function. Personally, if I were looking for a Nikon which rivals or surpasses the redoubtable EOS-1 series in toughness and build quality, I would look no further than a Nikon F5. The interchangeable prism, a fixity of the earlier F-series, was scrapped in favor of a fixed pentaprism similar to that of the successful F100, of which the F6 appears to be a souped up version, with a flavor of some of the old F-series features and structural qualities. The F6 does incorporate a manual rewind knob, which is somewhat of a quaint throwback to the era of finely crafted all-metal manual SLRs of the storied F-series, but given the proven reliability and convenience of auto-rewind over the past thirty years, this doesn't seem to present much of an advantage. The EOS-1v by FAR has the better heft and build quality, though both are of course wonderful cameras that represent the pinnacle of 35mm SLR technology.
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