Hipsters won't be happy.
Posted on 05/31/2018 1:15:07 PM PDT by Red Badger
Canon announced Wednesday it would end sales of its EOS-1v, the last remaining model of film camera that the company has sold in Japan. The company’s film cameras, which symbolize Canon’s old-time roots, will come to the end of their 80-year history.
As the sales of film cameras have been on a decline due to the spread of digital cameras, the company stopped the production of the EOS-1v in 2010 and currently is shipping its remaining stock.
The company said it will continue to accept repair orders and other customer inquiries until Oct. 31, 2025, even after finishing selling the product.
Canon’s film cameras have a sales history of about 80 years since the company’s predecessor released the Hansa Canon in 1936, having developed it from a prototype.
Well, as long as we have Polaroids.
Maybe now, with film cameras getting rarer by the minute, I will get a bid on my Canon AE-1mfilm camera on Ebay.
I’ve heard they’re making a comeback........................
Hipsters won't be happy.
I have a Nikon film camera I probably won’t be able to sell.
The canon…the canon.
Use more gunpowder
Have you tried to find film lately? It’s nearly disappeared.
I was into digital photography very early on (around 1991) when the quality was still crap...but people were amazed you could immediately download them and look at them.
I had a friend, an accomplished photographer who published in magazines, and he had six or seven cameras he used for different purchases.
After I showed him what you could do with Photoshop and a digital camera, he bought the highest end consumer systems he could, and over time, began using his film cameras less and less, to the point he finally just sold them all.
Heh, digital is great, I love it. I remember those days of sending all the rolls of film in those envelopes, keeping the tab to reclaim them later...:)
I must admit, the mystery of wondering just what you would get back was fun too...but I don’t miss it.
What's old is new again yadda, yadda.
different PURPOSES, not purchases! Damn spell correct!
Amazing technology advance, put Kodak out of business. Imagine taking 100’s of picutres for free to test outcomes, try that with film. Even better, computer programs to edit.
Maybe the damned White House press corps will stop using those LOUD shutter cameras!!! Boy that’s aggravating!
Just last week I went to a camera store (locally owned and not a big box store) to get a roll or two of 35mm film. I wanted to take some long telephoto shots that my digital camera cannot. To my disappointment, the store was closed. I presume they were out of business and not just moved to another location.
To my surprise, I found 35mm film at WalMart. It was Fuji film, 3 rolls to a package.
I recall it was Direct Film that my Dad made use of when sending out his slides to be developed back in the 1970s. That used to be a family event every now and then when he’d get out the slide projector and screen and set it up, lol.
Heh, the second digital camera I owned was a Kodak DC50 (which stored files in that horrid KDC file format! I had thousands of them I had to convert!)
The first one was an Apple Quicktake 100...lol, 24 bit postage stamp images!
So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away......
I hate to see it go but film is definitely dead or very close to it. For a while I was hoping someone would make a breakthrough in film speed or resolution.
Instead digital has made great advances in resolution and speed. We are seeing some cameras capable of pretty much maxing out the resolution potential of most lenses plus ISO equivalent up to a million tho at that speed, resolution does suffer.
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