Re:Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan
by schrijver on Monday December 21, 2020 @11:38AM
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If I’m not mistaken Canon, Nikon, etc. only ever sold camera’s, not film. And photographers changed camera’s a lot less often in the analogue days. With digital the customers suddenly got on an upgrade schedule similar to that of computers. So from a commercial standpoint the move to digital must have been pretty attractive for the manufacturers.
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Re:Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan
by stan_rogers on Monday December 21, 2020 @02:03PM
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Not only that, but the Big Three in film (Kodak, Fuji and AGFA) were at the forefront of digital photography when it was still barely a thing. Of them, only Fuji was making "serious" cameras for general photography (medium format rangefinders and the studio beast GX680, along with Fujinon optics for large format and enlargers).