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Saturday, January 14, 2006
No more film cam - Nikon
NEW YORK - Nikon Corp., which helped popularize the 35mm camera five decades ago, will stop making most of its film cameras to concentrate on digital models.
The Japanese company said it wanted to focus on “business categories that continue to demonstrate the strongest growth” as film cameras sales keep shrinking.
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.
Lenses
Most of the company’s autofocus lenses work with manual-focus bodies, however.
Nikon did not give firm dates for the discontinuation of its products, but said last Wednesday that sales will cease as supplies are depleted.
Nikon ranks fifth in digital-camera shipments in the United States, behind Kodak, Canon, Sony Corp. and Fuji Photo Film Co.
Nikon was a major force in establishing the dominance of the 35mm single-lens reflex camera, the workhorse of professionals and sophisticated amateurs until the arrival of digital cameras.
Its breakthrough model was the F, released in 1959. It became a must-have for photojournalists. (AP)
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