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Nikon Photo Contest 2012-2013--No Film Allowed!?

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Thom Hogan pointed this one out yesterday. Seems Nikon, despite still selling film cameras, won't accept any scanned film images for their contest. Great news for all those F6 owners. Odd? Ironic? Fill in the blank...

Nikon Photo Contest

Just scroll down to Submission Guideline.
 
Nikon is clueless. Why should anyone care whether an image originated on film or as a digital image? This pretty much eliminates medium and large format participation. I also own an FM, N80, N90s, F3, F4, F100 and a Coolscan 9000, but Nikon would rather I used my Canon DSLR. Nikon should be supporting film, or at least not penalizing film users. Shame on them; I won't be participating.

Silver lining: Maybe this will encourage folks to dump their film cameras and lenses so I can pick them up cheap.
 
Nikon really hasn't had any dogs in the fight for years. The F6 in 2004 was too much too late; scanners dropped 2-3 years ago; patchy support/service for late model film gear; almost-extinct MF glass; G/DX lenses with no retrofit ability to manual bodies. Despite the hollering about Nikon's "betrayal" of film on APUG, the company's last hurrahs for film cameras that sold well were the F5(1996) and the F100(1999). The pricey FM3A was a minor fiasco in 2001. Helps to have some perspective on just how long ago Nikon stepped away from film cameras.
 
How does this justify Nikon's choice to actively penalize film users, even those who have invested in Nikon products?
 
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In most cases, camera gear isn't much of an investment, return-wise. My only point above is that Nikon hasn't had much obvious interest in film photography for years. There's more irony than insult in the contest guidelines.
 
The usual fun and games with this over at APUG:

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)
 
Personally, I am as busy as ever with film photography and am making up large prints for a gallery display from 40 and 50 year old negatives. I recently bought two film enlargers and several lenses for analog camera bodies.
But I remember what they said to people who bemoaned the passing of the Silent Film -- "Pal, the parade's gone by...."
 
pschwart said:
How does this justify Nikon's choice to actively penalize film users, even those who have invested in Nikon products?
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We can only guesstimate what's going on inside corporate minds... my take is that at present Nikon profits are derived entirely from digital capture (apparently DSLRs/mirrorless are so profitable that the big brands churn out disproportionately more bodies than lenses); evidently Nikon's commercial propaganda is determined not to allow present and prospective customers get distracted/ask questions themselves when confronted with perfectly adequate alternative modes of capture, that on top of that are often decades old while digital become "obsolete" in just a few years.
 
 
 
I am a bit curious about one thing. If I used an old bellows and slide copier to capture an image of a slide or negative with a D3 or D600, then manipulated that digitally, how would they know whether or not it was originally captured digitally or not?
 
 
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