Nikon plans to stop making 35mm film cameras.
Nikon will discontinue seven film-camera models, leaving in production only the current top-line model, the F6, and a low-end manual-focus model, the FM10.
It will also stop making most of its manual-focus lenses.
If you're old school like me, it's time to go shopping.
Unusually, Nikon has maintained the same lens mount over the years, meaning most lenses from 1959 will fit today's digital models and vice versa, albeit with functional restrictions.
That means if you want to pick up one of their old metal body SLRs, or any lenses, on the used market, get hopping. Collectors' items cost more than old stuff.
I took all these with my old plastic body EM (the first plastic body camera Nikon made). I've got a digital whosis, and I grimace every time I buy film and pay for processing, but still, there a magic and surprise to taking pictures with film.
No doubt we'll hear the same thing about Baltar's internal combustion engines in a few years too, but that doesn't make me feel any better.
Posted by binky at January 14, 2006 06:20 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Economics
