Nikon's Death Knell for Filmies

Well, it's official. Film is dead.

In a press release yesterday, Nikon has decided to 'reshape it's film camera assortment'. Simply put, they're killing off almost all of their 35mm film camera bodies. The only survivors will be the F6 flagship model and the tried and true FM10 manual body. This is a sad day for film loving Nikonians. Also to get the axe are Nikon's large format lenses and Nikkor enlarging lenses.

Hopefully this will also create lower prices for future DSLR products from Nikon.

So, if you're a film lover and a digital hater, better go buy that F5 or F100 while you still can.

Press releases:

http://www.nikon.co.uk/press_room/releases/show.aspx?rid=201

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=130907&TICK=NIKON&STORY=/www/story/01-11-2006/0004247596&EDATE=Jan+11,+2006