Friday, January 13, 2006
Nikon's Focus Turns to Digital
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "ARTICLE" @ 08:00 AM
"Nikon, the Japanese camera and precision equipment maker, said Thursday it will focus on digital photography and stop producing most of its film cameras, except for a few professional photographer products. "Nikon will discontinue production of all lenses for large format cameras and enlarging lenses. This also applies to most of our film camera bodies, interchangeable manual focus lenses and related accessories," it said in a statement on its British website. The company expects stock of analog products to sell out in retail distribution in the summer of 2006."
While this was expected and the move makes sense, it is still a bit sad. It is like when we lost most of our record players/vinyl and everything went to CDs. While the quality is technically better, there is something about that analog technology that will always be missed. I guess we will have to use photoshop filters to get that film effect. ;-)
While this was expected and the move makes sense, it is still a bit sad. It is like when we lost most of our record players/vinyl and everything went to CDs. While the quality is technically better, there is something about that analog technology that will always be missed. I guess we will have to use photoshop filters to get that film effect. ;-)
