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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
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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.
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> Martin Harrington
> www.lendanear-sound.com
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> "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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