Nikon F601m
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The Nikon F-601m is a manual focus, autoexposure, auto film loading and advancing 35 mm
SLR
camera
manufactured by the Nikon Corporation and released in 1990. It was sold in North America as the N6000.
The F-601m is a simplified version of the F-601, with no autofocus capability and no built-in flash.
35 mm film
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SLR
Single-lens reflex camera
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Camera
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manufactured by the Nikon Corporation and released in 1990. It was sold in North America as the N6000.
The F-601m is a simplified version of the F-601, with no autofocus capability and no built-in flash.
Features
- Flexible programmed (P), aperture priority (A) and shutter priority (S) auto-exposure and manual exposure control.
- Matrix and Center-Weighted Metering.
- Auto-exposure bracketing.
- Self timer.
- High or low speed continuous film advance.
- DX film code recognition to automatically set ISO speed.
- Exposure and flash compensation.
- TTL flash exposure.
Lens Compatibility
- CPU lenses required for full compatibility.
- Manual focus lenses lose P & S modes, matrix metering, and aperture display in the finder
- Pre-AI and IX lenses not supported
- G-type lenses will work in P & S modes, and only smallest aperture in A & M modes.
- DX lenses will be vignettedVignettingIn photography and optics, vignetting  is a reduction of an image's brightness or saturation at the periphery compared to the image center. The word vignette, from the same root as vine, originally referred to a decorative border in a book. Later, the word came to be used for a photographic...
, otherwise same as G-type - VR functionality not supported