now that's a real friggin bummer...

wtf? i just hope that they don't stop selling films in the next coupla years...it's a fucking drag already finding high iso film...and bw film around where i live...thank god for the internet distribution...

nikon is letting down a lot of people i think... :/

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Hmm - call me nuts but....Nikon doesn't make 35mm film.

What the hell? Whoa. I hope this isnt the begining of the end of film. This makes me nervous, angry, irritated...YARG! I hope either its not true, or a mistake or something. Damn you Nikon! I must go cry now.

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I guess digital is going to take over slowly.

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wow, big decision
I wonder what their proportion of film camera sales is nowadays anyway

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Mmhmm. I just read about this. What a shame.

7% of their annual sales are from film camera bodies and lenses, down from 14% last year.

digital cameras and associated lenses are up to 75% or so from 42% last year. the rest i think is scanners, printers and accessories.

source: the new york times.

it has been suggested, however, that "discontinuing" their film camera bodies and lenses is an effort to, in an indirect way, rejuvenate their sales. once hobbyists and photographers get wind that there will be no more nikon film cameras, analysts believe their sales will spike dramatically as consumers make an effort to own one before they are all gone. it is also expected that nikon film cameras will become nostalgia items in second hand retail outlets like ebay.

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that's a definite drop then.

thanks for that (I should've just googled that myself )

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If they start making a loss on them, what can they do?

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excuse me, i misquoted the nytimes article. here it is: [link]

film cameras are down to 3% of sales from 16% last year. digital is up to 75%, whereas it was 47% three years ago.

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