Friday 13 January 2006
Nikon dumps almost all film cameras
Will Greenwald
CNET News.com
CNET News.com
Nikon has announced that it will be dropping a large part of its film photography products and focusing primarily on digital photography.
Nikon will cease production on all of its large-format and enlarging lenses as well as most of its film camera bodies. The flagship F6 35mm-film SLR camera will still be produced and sold by Nikon, as will some of its 35mm-film accessories. The manual FM10 camera will continue to be sold outside of Europe.
This marks a major change in film photography, as Nikon has been one of the largest and most prominent film SLR camera manufacturers in the world.
Nikon will still offer service for all of its film products sold within the last ten years.
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