| OT: Nikon and the end of film. [message #63078] |
Sat, 14 January 2006 23:15  |
cujo
Messages: 285
Registered: July 2005
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Ugg,
I heard a little stiry on NPR the other day on how Nikon would be phasing
out
film cameras buy the end of the year, made me think how close that is to
the audio world.
One photographer in the story compared digtial to writing a letterusing a
ball point pen and film would be like using a fountain pen. I kind of liek
the comparison. Actually he was saying how digital was great for many uses,
getting news photos in to print ASAP an what not, but that film was still
better for more artistic ventures.
I looked on the NPR site but could not find the story.
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| Re: Nikon and the end of film. [message #63143 is a reply to message #63080] |
Mon, 16 January 2006 06:29  |
JB
Messages: 24
Registered: December 2005
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They plan to continue their flagship F6 and their manual focus FM10 (which
is popular as a student model).
The up side is that the used film camera market is flooded with those who
have switched to digital, so it won't be too hard to get a good, cheap Nikon
film camera at least for the time being.
"Martin Harrington" <lendan@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:43c9edca$1@linux...
>I saw a similar story, but they, (Nikon), said they were still going to
>manufacture the high end cameras.
> --
> Martin Harrington
> www.lendanear-sound.com
>
> "cujo" <chris@nospamapplemanstudio.com> wrote in message
> news:43c9e88b$1@linux...
>>
>> Ugg,
>> I heard a little stiry on NPR the other day on how Nikon would be phasing
>> out
>> film cameras buy the end of the year, made me think how close that is to
>> the audio world.
>> One photographer in the story compared digtial to writing a letterusing a
>> ball point pen and film would be like using a fountain pen. I kind of
>> liek
>> the comparison. Actually he was saying how digital was great for many
>> uses,
>> getting news photos in to print ASAP an what not, but that film was still
>> better for more artistic ventures.
>>
>> I looked on the NPR site but could not find the story.
>>
>
>
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