Replacing the film door on Nikon N6006

f/16 · Jul 9, 2015

Yesterday the N6006 I inherited form my dad broke the latch that holds the door closed. I ordered a few things from KEH and got 3 AS IS N6006's at 2.49 each. Hopefully one of them will have a film door in good condition and I can put it on my dad's. Is it easy to get the door off?

John Koehrer · Jul 10, 2015

You should be able to swap the back by removing the bottom cover, there's no electronics involved.
The battery cover's going to be loose and the RW switch shouldn't be a problem if it's not moved when the bottom's off.

TheToadMen · Jul 11, 2015

I changed the door on other Nikon models (F90x, F4) simply by squeezing the hinge a bit.

f/16 · Jul 11, 2015

Thanks John.

Toad, the N6006 does not have the squeezable hinge.

Alan Klein · Jul 11, 2015

How's the 6006 in IQ?

Ricardo Miranda · Jul 11, 2015

Alan Klein said:
How's the 6006 in IQ?

Let me see if I understood your American: IQ is equal to Image Quality?

Answer: the same as any other 35mm SLR Nikon.

IQ only depends on the film and lens used.
The F601/N6006 can use any after 1977 AI lens onwards.
Exceptions apply for DX and G lenses.

TheToadMen · Jul 11, 2015

Ricardo Miranda said:
Let me see if I understood your American: IQ is equal to Image Quality?

Answer: the same as any other 35mm SLR Nikon.

IQ only depends on the film and lens used.
The F601/N6006 can use any after 1977 AI lens onwards.
Exceptions apply for DX and G lenses.

The performance of the internal light meter might be a factor as well.

Ricardo Miranda · Jul 12, 2015

TheToadMen said:
The performance of the internal light meter might be a factor as well.

Nope, no reflection on the final picture quality apart under or over-exposure.

The "performance" of the meter depends on your "own performance" to see if the meter is telling you nice things or porkies.
The meter in the F601 is a Matrix meter with AF lenses. The same as the F801 for all effects.
Otherwise you have the standard 60/40 centre-weight meter and a nice spot meter with all lenses.

Tamara · Jul 14, 2015

I discovered to my chagrin that the back of the camera has enough inertia when just allowed to fall closed to snap the latching hook on an N4004. I've been really careful about that since with my N6006.

Alan Klein · Jul 14, 2015

The reason I asked about N6006 IQ, was because I have a Nikormat FT3 in addition to my N6006. Which would be better?

blockend · Jul 14, 2015

The door on this camera was a known problem, it has a very cheap plastic hook under pressure from a metal lock. I left two in drawer for a few years, and when I came to use them both had broken their latch under the pressure of being closed!

For some years a company offered replacement metal hooks on ebay, but if you opted to fit your own it was a fiddly job involving tiny screws which had to be on precise alignment. The N6006/F601 was a nice camera let down by a Christmas cracker rear door.

blockend · Jul 14, 2015

Alan Klein said:
The reason I asked about N6006 IQ, was because I have a Nikormat FT3 in addition to my N6006. Which would be better?

Nikon lenses of the N6006 era were Nikon AF, pre-D and G. The IQ was excellent, though like nearly all autofocus lenses, nowhere close to the build quality of the manual Nikkors. The Nikkormat is in a completely different league of structural integrity to the N6006. The first is Olympian, the second wouldn't make it off the starting blocks at a school sports day.

Replacing the film door on Nikon N6006

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