Alas poor 9000, knew it well...

nsouto

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http://www.nikon-image.com/products/discontinue/others/#h301

Ah well, we knew it'd happen sometime. Nikon stopped any serious commitment to anything film a long time ago. If only they were intelligent enough to offload the darn manufacturing to a Chinese company who would carry it through...

Not many cost-effective options left for MF scanning, other than horrible flatbeds... Yes they are horrible, don't make me go into why...

On the other hand, this was a surprise:
http://www.nikon-image.com/products/discontinue/camera/#h301
The D3 and D300 gone as well? A bit early, is it not?



What next for MF? A Flextight at tens of thousands of $$$?

35mm is easier, the Pacific range at least is more or less good quality.

I'm glad I invested in a 9000ED three years ago: I'll never let go of it...

Dang...
 

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indeed ... sad though expected news

nsouto said:
Not many cost-effective options left for MF scanning, other than horrible flatbeds... Yes they are horrible, don't make me go into why...
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ohh ... do tell? Don't make me ply you with wine till you confess the reasons


nsouto said:
35mm is easier, the Pacific range at least is more or less good quality.
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hmm ... been trying to find if this is true or not, do you have any samples you've scanned?
 

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My idea about lacking of production of new material for analog photography (cameras, scanners) is not so doom and gloom, and is as follows:

The advent of digital made a lot of photographer sell their goods on the second-hand market. This created a market situation in which it is not any more feasible to maintain production, because demand is entirely satisfied by the second-hand market.

When the demand arises again for new film cameras and film scanner, production will begin again.

Film production does not seem to be in danger. New products are developed. When I last asked my laboratory how things were going, in 2007 or 2008, they said they work (hard) as ever. This seems to indicate that film use has stabilized and that traditional photography is here to stay. The horizon is not so cloudy.

I myself bought a lot of stuff in these last years all second-hand on eBay: light meters, drums, Jobo machine, film cameras, lenses, etc. No surprise they are hardly produced any more. But demand is there. I don't think film gear is bought only for collection purposes.

Fabrizio
 
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pellicle said:
indeed ... sad though expected news

ohh ... do tell? Don't make me ply you with wine till you confess the reasons

hmm ... been trying to find if this is true or not, do you have any samples you've scanned?
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Hehehe! We missed that at dinner! Mind you, we gotta have something left over to chat on my next trip in March/011.
Thanks for the great evening, BTW.

The manual-feed stuff from Pacific is a bit iffy, I reckon. But they have an auto-feed/auto-focus thing with D-Ice that looks quite good. Based on the old Kodak scanners. I'll look it up in the B&H site and post here when I get back home.

There is a new one of the el-cheapo scanners in ebay doing the rounds at 9Mpix. That's quite acceptable for quick and dirty and it might be an option in future?
 
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