Talk:Nikon F6

Own article?

I'm lost. Assuming that Wikipedia is not primarily a marketing arm of Nikon, why does this camera -- excellent though it may be and expensive though it undoubtedly is -- merit its own article? Suggestion: put this (and many of the articles promised from the links proliferating in the article on Nikon) in a single artlcle on the Nikon F series/system. Hoary 08:16, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Lost of cameras do, not just this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aj uk (talk • contribs)

I agree, lots of camera pages do this, see Canon EOS 40D for example. Also the F6 is historically important for Nikon. It will probably be the last ever Nikon Film SLR manufactured by Nikon and the last F-series professional SLR. kchanyr 18:05, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

There's certainly plenty to say about most camera models, if you research enough. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 20:13, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree that this article is marginal and given that the camera is still in current production, it is a little too much like marketing. The F, F2, and F3 articles are pretty good, the F4 and F5 aren't so bad but this one is just fluff. "The pinnacle" of the line? That's extremely opinionated and I think a lot of Nikon buffs

(or camera buffs in general) might say the F2 was the best 35mm SLR ever made.

I don't know what you mean by marginal, unless you're saying that it's short. I agree with that. Add some info. It needs it. The f6 being in current production means what exactly? "F4 and F5 aren't so bad, but cam buffs say the [forty year old] f2 best ever" is NOT "extremely opinionated"? Did you comment here just to complain about the F6 or something? This is "the pinnacle" because that's what the Nikon designers, reviewers, and users generally say. The philosophy behind the F6 design, if you bother to read the interviews with the designers, was basically "35mm is dead. Let's have fun and design the best wet dream camera ever made." And it was good.

Vertical grip

I reverted the last change by an anon IP user. I think what a 'vertical grip' is is being misunderstood. The vertical grip is not the vertically aligned grip that one uses when the camera is in landscape orientation, which comes standard with the F6. Rather, the vertical grip is a horizontal one running along the bottom of the camera used for holding the camera in portrait ("vertical") orientation. The F6 does not have one of these integrally; instead, it is part of the functionality of the battery pack. Thus, it is accurate to state that this is a battery pack AND vertical grip. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 18:37, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

CAM-2000 AF system

I'm currently considering editing the section on the CAM-2000 AF system. While it is true that the system was designed in conjunction with the D2H/X digital SLR cameras with DX format sensors, its autofocus frame coverage is in my experience for a 35mm format professional SLR dating back before the advent of DSLRs. Examples of what I'm talking about are the Canon EOS-1n, EOS-1V (which was my primary film body prior to the F6), and Nikon F5. The trend has also continued with "Full Frame" Digital SLRs, such as the Nikon D3, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II, and 1Ds Mark III. -nikonmadness

I have owned the D1H, D2X and I currently own the F5, F100. I remember the AF outer sensors on the D1X being quite far out towards the edges of the image (which is something I happened to like) when compared to the F5 I'd owned previously. It seemed obvious to me that they had taken the F100/F5 AF sensor and put it straight into the D1H without resizing it for the smaller imager. I used to believe that this was to save on costs and/or development time. With the D2X (which had more AF sensors), the additional sensors were spaced wide as well, which was a bit inconclusive to me at the time (I used to think that the AF sensor was exclusive to the D2X, I didn't consider the F6 at the time). So what did they do with the F6 (which is contemporary to the D2X)? I don't own an F6 myself, but I've looked at pictures of the F6 viewfinder on the web:

F6: http://mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/classics/NikonF5/focusing/finderF6.gif

D2X/D1H: http://cdn-10.nikon-cdn.com/kdb/focusscreen/focusingscreens.jpg

F5: http://mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/classics/NikonF5/focusing/finderF5.gif

I must say that it appears that the AF sensor arrangement is physically unchanged between the F6 and the D2X, despite their different image/imager sizes. Did they decide to design only one AF sensor arrangement for the F6/D2X to save cost, again? What of the next model generation?

AF sensors on the D3: http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/D3X/ZD3XVFCALLOUTS.PNG

On the D300: http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/D300S/ZD300SVFCALLOUTS.PNG

We see the same pattern here as with the previous cameras. Ie that the sensor arrangement/pattern is not adapted for DX/FX cameras; instead, there is one physical AF sensor for each generation and it is not adapted for imaging/imager size.

I don't think it's accurate to say that the F6 arrangement is inherited from the D2X though. It must have been developed with both cameras in mind. I'll rephrase the article slightly to reflect this.

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