AI lenses provide manual focus w/electronic rangefinder, aperture priority and manual exposure mode, C/W and Spot Metering operation.
AI-P lenses provide manual focus w/electronic rangefinder and full metering operation.
It has the normal Single Area AF, plus some pretty advanced Dynamic modes, including Focus Tracking with Lock-On, Closest Subject Priority and Group. The new AF uses the Multi-CAM 2000 AF Sensor Module and has 9 AF sensors. It also has a greatly improved algorithm 3D Color Matrix metering, a flexible Center Weighted metering and Spot metering that you can assign to any one of 11 focus points. So, you can customize your shooting preferences with 41 Custom Settings. Plus a built-in shooting data memory, (my favorite), plus the ability to program custom functions and all the other stuff data backs do. (although Nikon lists it as backordered) The advance design, including an 11-area super accurate AF perfectly melded with Nikon’s awesome Creative Lighting System (iTTL flash) and 3D Color Matrix Metering. The Nikon F6 is Nikon’s flagship film camera. Probably the best full review I’ve seen is over at.
This is not meant to be an in-depth review. (Nikon’s latest digital wonder has nothing on an F6,….uhh, except a sensor) Nikon F6 Review Lite You’d expect at least one 4 star review! Nope. In fact, it’s the only 35mm camera I know of on the B&H website, including Leica’s, that has more than 30 or 40 customer reviews and is still 100% 5 star rated. Is a camera I often discount as just Nikon saying, “Hey, we are still the King when it comes to film cameras”! But it’s not.