![]() In irony, one year later, Nikon USA started to offer $35 rebate for the N50 during September to December of 1996, and dropped the price of the N70 by about $100. But later that year, the price came back to $400, indicating that Nikon had changed its mind. In spring 1995, Nikon planned to discontinue the N6006 and dropped its price from $400 to $350. (The F5 dawns a new era of color metering, but it is reported that the AF is quite the same as the N90s, except that the motor in F5 is more powerful to achieve a better performance.)Īfter the N90s, two new cameras, the N50 and the N70, were introduced, signaling the end of the Nx00x series: the N50 replaces the N4004s, the N70 replaces the N6006, and the N90(s) replaces the N8008(s). The N90 was soon upgraded to N90s for the improved ruggedness and weather-proving. The N90 is the first camera that implements Nikon D-metering technology and the cross-type wide-area AF. Look at it this way: the N6006 has all the new technologies that had been implemented in the then top-of-the-line cameras: it has the AF sensor that can only recognize vertical lines, Nikon's matrix and spot metering, TTL flash technology, etc. The N6006 represents a classic of the pre-D era of Nikon AF cameras, the Nx00x series, as the FM2n for the all-manual era. The 3-year period spans almost a complete generation of AF technology. I often see the N6006 as the older but the little brother of the N90s, especially when I carry both in my camera bag. ![]() Nikon N90s and N6006 Reviewby Liang-Wu Cai
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