
It has a special low-vibration mirror balancing mechanism and carbon-kevlar shutter blades, rated to 150,000 shots. It has as many megapixels as your film and scanner combination can produce. Headline spec for the F6: 5.5fps without the grip, 8fps with CAM2000 11-point (9 cross) AF sensor module, shared with the D2-series cameras RGB matrix meter and 100%, 0.74x magnification finder. The F6 uses a pair of CR123A lithiums it lasts a bit longer, but two of those things still costs quite a bit more than a whole set of AAs for the F5. One can only suppose the F5 required a built in because of its insatiable hunger for AA batteries. (Too bad, because the super-high eyepoint sports finder for that camera was a thing of beauty easily the largest and brightest finder I’ve ever seen on a 35mm SLR.) It also revered to the F4 and previous designs that made the vertical grip a detachable unit, as opposed to the built-in on the F5. The camera differs from its predecessors in many ways – firstly, it’s the only single-digit (pro) F body to lack interchangeable prisms apparently this feature was so seldom used on the F5 that it was dropped. In 2004, however, Nikon gave the world one last hurrah in its long lineup of film cameras – the F6. The F3 was the first Nikon camera to be styled by Giorgetto Giugiaro.Many thought this camera would never see the light of day, or it would do so as some strange film-digital hybrid with interchangeable backs.Nikon F3 production was discontinued in 2001, making it the longest running Nikon SLR camera.By 1992, over 751,000 Nikon F3s had been sold.In 1998, while the Nikon F5 was in production, a special pellical mirror version of the Nikon F3P was made known as F3H, this version allowed motorized film advance up to 13.5 fps, the fastest ever in a Nikon SLR.A Limited edition F3HP was made for the Japanese market only.A special weather sealed version of the F3HP, known as the F3P, was sold to professional photographers only.A black version of the Titanium edition was produced until 19?. The champaign edition of the Titanium version was discontinued in 1985. The F3/T, a titanium bodied version of the F3HP, was introduced in 1983.Two AF lenses were introduced at the same time. The AF module was built into the new DX-1 finder. It was Nikon's first attempt to add autofocus to an SLR. The Nikon F3 AF was introduced in 1983.The High-Eyepoint finder had an eyepoint of 25mm, the longest of any regular finders before or since for Nikon cameras. The Nikon F3 High-Eyepoint was introduced in March 1982.At the time of its introduction, the F3 had the fastest regular production motor-drive, with a maximum speed of 5.5 fps with mirror down, and 6 fps with mirror up.The Nikon F3 was introduced in March 1980.
