Nikon F6 Impressions 

I bought an F6 because I want one 👍👏 Good video!

"I bought an F6 because I want one", makes me say good on you! Happy shooting!!

I just picked up a "mint" F6 with a high serial number and couldn't be happier. I've decided to go back to film for portraits and landscapes. Film has better resolution (87MP for 35mm film) and I know I'm getting the actual colors. I have never liked the deBayering process, where a computer tries to guess what color a pixel should be. With film, that's not an issue.

Actually, it's quite the other way. The F801 paved the way as a camera ahead of its time w/ modern ergonomic feel to what the F5 look would be and where new DSLR followed from. The F4 was 1 in a kind keeping the manual look / feel of the F3 days to satisfy the pros who didn't take to the new F501 & F801's digital look. I moved from an F5 into a new D3S FX and it felt at home. But before then, Coming from an F3P myself , the F4E was amazing, so classic but yet so pro function. I think the F6 didn't get the F5 treatment is the lack of Pro sales in the film scene by then . The D2H was the DSLR to win the pros over from film finally & the D3S made it more clear of the FX future of digital. Congrats on your brilliant camera. (:

Thanks for this super helpful and interesting review video. Learned a lot. Now I want an F6 more than ever!

The only thing that keeps me from getting a F6, is the price. Way too expensive. But I have a F100 and F5, which did not cost much. And they are awesome.

I like your review. You got the F6 for a great price! Also, seeing the distance from which you took pictures and seeing the results were a good way for me to gauge the impact of using lenses of various focal lengths. I also have the 105mm f2 DC lens. It was good to see that the bokeh was still good (to my eyes at least) even if you used expired film. Thanks for making this video.

I use my F6 with an 85 f/1.4 for portraits and it nails focus and exposure every time I shoot it wide open. Absolutely love this camera!

Excellent info on the Mighty F6! Thanks!!!

The F4 was “crude looking”? Come on now, we all know that’s not true. The F4 is a masterpiece of industrial design with outstanding ergonomics.

Wow, congrats! That is the holy grail right there.

Greetings from Chicago. I'm getting to know my F6, and your video was very helpful. Thanks and cheers :)

oh you took great photos!

Man I want that camera now! I didn’t realize how much bigger the F6 is compared to their digital bodies til you held the two up side by side. I NEED THAT!

I always thought the F6 looked ugly with the same design ques as the D2 and D200 with the grey plate around the shutter button. The F5 is far more beautiful looking!

I’ve thought about replacing my F100 with one, especially given the fragile film door (I haven’t had an issue… yet), but I haven’t pulled the trigger yet. Too many other cameras I also want!

Hello. I follow your RU-vid channel regularly, a little while ago I read an article about the Red Scale film, that Lomography made with Alex Doran and recognized you and your beloved Nikon in one of the photos 🙂 I guess you are friends or acquaintances. How small the world is 🙂

Just got mine in today!

Nice video. I have as new F6….We need a list of the sharpest lenses…. I am starting out with the 58 1.4 and would like to add a portrait and tele

Interesting video. I'm currently investigating buy an F6, so do you have any info on how you get the firmware and battery fixed? Google didn't give me anything...

The 2 best Nikons for lens compatibility are the F4 and Df.

I just bought one. I mean in the middle of this video. I paused the video and went to eBay and clicked the button. $930US with tax from Japan, 0022xxx serial number. The deciding feature for me was the option to leave the leader out when rewinding. I process my own film and this is a big convenience. I will be using it with a Sigma Art 24-105, I am hoping that the VR will work because it doesn't on my F100.

Pretty sure you could always reverse the controls. I know my D300 could and I think my D200 could also back in 2005.

This is the ONLY film camera that I want…🤤

You should try shooting that 1974 expired TMax 400 at ISO 100 and pull process it -2 stops... I've been experimenting with old expired film, and in almost every case I need to over-expose it by at least one stop... unless I can be assured it was consistently cold-stored in a freezer, which isn't easy to confirm.

I wonder if Nikon could add E lens compatibility with a new firmware upgrade. Would this be possible in theory? Or does that need some hardware addon which this F6 camera lacks?

Wow I really went to buy it but can not find it in South Korea. so sad....

I own nikon F4S I owned Nikon F5

I’m curious how the trip to Nikon Japan work out for your F6. Mine has the same issues…😢 Can you give us an update?

hi, dipping back in, a. did you send to japan, how long did the exercise for cla take? b. what was the overall cost please?

Just a random question, does anyone knows if there is a brand that still produce new models of film photography besides Lomography??

Is it really better than the F100 ?

oh i want that and the f 100 also i sold the f100

I don't even shoot NIKON (any longer) nor film but I WANT this bad boy...with the battery grip of course! Nice Vid!

If people want all of these features but want to pay radically less money buy a Minolta dynax 7 . I’ve had both cameras . Minolta dynax 7 is sleeper camera . Only thing that Nikon has that wins is use of Nikon g lenses which makes it super quite to focus .

11:29 my anxiety with you blasting through the film 😅 maybe I missed something?

I have a Nikon F4 , with physical knobs and switches and buttons , I'll take my F4 over the F5 and 6 , when you buy an F 6 you might as well just buy a digital camera , .. because you're just jumping over the art of using 35 mm my serial number starts with 222 xxxxxx earlier F4 My Nikon 4 it works perfectly

Film and film processing is so damn expensive nowadays. They're putting the final nail in film photography's coffin, it's a shame.

I bought one this week. Autofocus was intermittent and backfocused by a foot! It went back to the shop. Meanwhile, the F100 i bought new in 2000 is still working perfectly, and the F5 I bought secondhand a couple of years ago works fine too. Save yourself some money and buy one of those, or an F4.