Nikon discontinuing film cameras

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0601/06011201nikon_news.asp

 

I think Kodak has already done this last year.

 

I just read that on Yahoo news. What a bummer. I waited all my life to finally get a Nikon and now they are going to quit. I wonder what the prices of telephoto lenses are going to do? Go up or down? I really want to get a tele for my N65.
Now, on the other hand, I really want a D70.........

 

That was bound to happen with the Digital photography boom.

Stay cool and run steam......

 

Yes, the days of the 35mm are coming to an end just like many others technologies in the past. My wife went digital just recently with a Canon Rebel SLR and WOW! she can take some very professional photos with this thing straight out of the box and no training. What will be hard for people is the prining costs, etc. if they try to maintain the old photo albums. My wife and I are slowing moving towards saving our photographic memories in DVD movie format now by mixing my videos and her digial stills into a single DVD movie.

 

They are ending film camera production, not lens production. DSLRs, the hot ticket in town now, still require lenses.

As a matter of fact, it may even help prices come down as people are starting to rediscover SLRs (the digital version) and they want new lenses.

 

I read the same... I think Nikon is headed the way of everyone else: the "filmless society".

Harold

 

If you can't sell them, why make them?

Professionals are almost 100 percent digital now. Kodak is abandoning most film.

I think it won't be long before film cameras are a specialty item. And film itself? I shudder. I'm not even sure I can find 220 film here in Albuquerque. I haven't looked for a long time. If I shoot 35mm film, most times I'm going to have to have it scanned to submit for publication, so why not just shoot digital?

 

This is even worse. Konica Minolta is giving up on ALL cameras!

http://konicaminolta.com/releases/2006/0119_03_01.html

 

MK, yeah, saw that on Yahoo today and that's a real shocker. What are we to do?

 

Wow!

They were losing $75M on sales of $2.3B. That's not too bad--but projected sales next year were going to fall off a cliff, which would have resulted in huge losses.

 

I have a feeling the F6 is going to be quite expensive in the future.

 

Agfa was scheduled to stop producing film by December 2005.

 

My local photo shop said Konica/Minolta in Canada dropped service support for their min-lab before Christmas and the parent company was not doing so well. Seems Minolta was sinking when Konica bought them out and the weight was too much to keep the merged company afloat.

 

What have the digital freaks wrought?

There are still some subjects that are best rendered with film, or only rendered on film.