Canon To Stop Making Single-Lens Camera
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Canon To Stop Making Single-Lens Camera
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060525/...ge/japan_canon
No more development of new film cameras...just digital.
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No more development of new film cameras...just digital.
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Nikon is already discontinuing all but two of their film SLRs (the F6 which is a big honkin pro model kinda like a D2x but with film, and either the FM3a or FM10 which are both old-skool manual focus). Konica Minolta completely dropped out of the camera business, but they sold their digital SLR stuff to Sony and Sony is currently providing support to existing K/M products, and will come out with new SLRs that use the Minolta SLR lens mount, flashes, etc. Canon's going to keep selling their film lineup, just not come out with any new ones.
I'll stick with film until I can really afford to drop the thousands of dollars necessary for buying autofocus lenses of comparable quality to my manual focus lenses that don't work on digital. Also Pentax is coming out with a 10 mp dSLR, and all of their dSLRs have full autoexposure compatibility with their old manual focus lenses dating back to the early 80s. The cheapest Nikon that can do that is the D200 and you have to enter the focal length and maximum aperture into the menu system every time you put a manual focus lens on so it knows how to calculate the exposure.
I'll stick with film until I can really afford to drop the thousands of dollars necessary for buying autofocus lenses of comparable quality to my manual focus lenses that don't work on digital. Also Pentax is coming out with a 10 mp dSLR, and all of their dSLRs have full autoexposure compatibility with their old manual focus lenses dating back to the early 80s. The cheapest Nikon that can do that is the D200 and you have to enter the focal length and maximum aperture into the menu system every time you put a manual focus lens on so it knows how to calculate the exposure.
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Originally Posted by swaggs21
I think it is a smart move, especially once they get in the 10 meg range with their SLR series.
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Last edited by MrFatbooty; May 25, 2006 at 05:36 PM.
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Originally Posted by AF
17 megapixel? holy crap
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/co...&modelid=10598
