List of film cameras still made

jrhilton

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BobD said:
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Aren’t Panavision, and Arri not really making new film cameras in any meaningful numbers, just continuing to rent out (or sell in Arri's case) existing ones already made or from existing parts? It is actually quite a few years since either of those companies released a new film camera model which is interesting.

Same applies for the Canon 1V and Nikon F6 I think, just selling from existing stock and have been for a few years. I was told (can't confirm it) that the Canon 7D is produced on part of the line that used to make the 1V?
 

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Fuji makes the Bessa 6x7 cameras and they also make the hasselblad H series, of which they sold a film (6x4.5) version in Japan, but that may be no more.
 

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They have always made the H cameras, they build the lenses too. Here is an oldish Dead Link Removed with a pic.
 
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Didn't know that. Thanks.
And I thought Voigtlander made the Bessa/fuji 6x7s. Thanks for clearing that up.
 

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tomalophicon said:
Didn't know that. Thanks.
And I thought Voigtlander made the Bessa/fuji 6x7s. Thanks for clearing that up.
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Wasn’t the Voigtländer company dead long ago? I thought Cosina make all the “Voigtländer” branded products these days.

I think the market can be summed up as follows - outside of LF there are still a few makes and models of film camera being sold that are still being manufactured today(and not just being sold from remaining stock), but in reality they are actually all coming out of a very small number of factories.
 

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Klasse S, Klasse W, Natura Classica, GF670, GF670W are still made by Fujifilm, althought the GF series are manufactured by Cosina.
 

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If you group them into camera type LF, MF and 35mm I think the LF and MF groups are larger I think mainly because in these sizes the cameras are the same for film and digital. Just a digital back to a film camera.
 

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Not only film-camera companies outnumber digital-camera companies (that was in fact easy to foresee), but also probably film cameras are produced in greater number than digital cameras (if we count one-use film cameras, that is ).

Unless we count telephones as digital cameras...
 
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good points fellows.
Well I suppose if you count one-use cameras you must count phones.
Though for the purposes of this investigation, we could count devices whose main purpose is to be a camera.
 

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hoffy said:
IMHO, a camera on a iPhone is not a camera, its an insult
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No, it is a distribution and storage unit, with rudimentary camera functions attached.
 
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