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What Cameras Can, and Should, Be Brought Back into Production?
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The easiest film cameras to produce are the last ones in production. How many Nikon F6 cameras are sold worldwide in a calendar month, probably not many. The last iteration of the Canon EOS1 stopped not too many years ago, so that's a possible contender. There's no great clamour for automated 35mm bodies, and plenty of large format cameras are still in production. If Bessa rangefinders were reintroduced at a price that gave them a clear advantage over Leica, they might sell in sufficient numbers.
Does it have to be a film camera? I'd yell "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY" for a updated Epson R-D1.
Strangely, I was thinking of the Epson when I posted a few minutes ago. Maybe a new low pixel super low light monster sensor.
As long as they retain the manual shutter cocking lever and the general layout of the controls I'd be happy
That would very likely also make me draw my wallet.
I would like it with the old 10.2-megapixel CCD sensor of my D200 ...
Probably about the same as a Leica M-A.
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There's actually some precedence for this in the form of 2005's Nikon SP reissue:
https://www.cameraquest.com/nrfblsp2005.htm
And price at the time was 690,000 Japanese Yen. Really a lovely camera IMO, looks exactly as if it had arrived via time machine.
If all the non-using collectors got rid of their cameras, we'd have enough cameras of all types on the market for the next three decades of photography.
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This is partly why I don't think it's 'that' wild of an idea. Nikon is going to sell fewer and fewer digital cameras every year not even accounting for COVID. They might as well expand the market they serve since the consumer P&S market is completey dead.
That would be great if they used the shutter from the F5 again so spares would once again become available!
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But I thought I read somewhere that Nikon lost money with the S3 and SP reissues. That might have been OK in 2005, but in 2020, not so sure.
I'm not sure at what point the consumer P&S market morphs into interest or demand in micro 4/3 or the Fuji X series cameras? A well known internet "personality" expressed skepticism towards the Fuji GFX System recently, but as an outsider to that camera series it seems a pretty robust option to me.
..just to add to this silliness - a hybrid TLR, interchangeable lens of course, where the lower one images onto 120 roll film and the upper one records onto a 56x56mm sensor and also an electronic viewfinder.
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Doesn’t exist, but wish Leica would make an Xpan type panoramic camera, like an M3, no meter...
Didn't Rollei try this with the 4560 back for the 6008?
I don't think it would be possible to achieve the format switchability easily - the whole point of the Xpan was that by relying on electronic controls and operation it could do what would be nearly impossible with clockwork.
I've increasingly found myself wondering about the idea of a 6x7-ish SWC design (with a 45mm Biogon of course), but with a flat film path to maximise the edge of field performance - add AF & electronic operation, and who knows, maybe it's in the realm of the possible.
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On the contrary, back then digital was new and exciting. People were ditching their Hasselblads for 10mp CCD APS-C cameras. Now digital is mature and quite boring. Hand any one of us a decade old D700 and we could all make a killer portfolio of images. If they just said, we're going to make x number of FM3As a year, they'd sell every one. Even if they were $1500 a pop.
I read recently that they sell every F6 they make essentially. There was a rumor that it's all dead stock but Nikon recently re-affirmed that they do make them on a semi regular basis, and the market for them is there. Frankly though I think the market for an FM3a would be stronger. The kind of people that buy the M-A are the kind of people that want the FM3a.
Do I hear F7?
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The people that bought the P&S cameras will not buy film cameras, no. But this just means that camera makers must find new customers, which requires a different type of product. Film photographers are here and waiting.
My vote gets split three ways..
First place goes to the Contax G1, a true late 20th century classic.
With a full manual override, and frame lines for a new 135mm lens, Zeiss T of course.
Then maybe further down the track, a digital insert - which some camera makers have been hinting at for years but still haven't delivered, pooh-bah to them.
Second choice, the Nikon F65 (aka N65). One of the sweetest l little amateur cameras ever made by Nikon, which if used with care and some intelligence, easily produces 98% of everything the expensiver Nikons do. Again with more manual override and a few other nifties usually found on the costlier models, like a multi-setting exposure system, tho I have to say the 65's metering is perfectly adequate as it is.
As my third, failing the above two, I'll go with Mr Flibble on the Epson RD1. I missed out on this wonderful camera when it came out, and now find the surviving ones too expensive (at least in Australia where they sell for their weight in gold) to purchase.
Ah, dreams!
First place goes to the Contax G1, a true late 20th century classic.
With a full manual override, and frame lines for a new 135mm lens, Zeiss T of course.
Then maybe further down the track, a digital insert - which some camera makers have been hinting at for years but still haven't delivered, pooh-bah to them.
Second choice, the Nikon F65 (aka N65). One of the sweetest l little amateur cameras ever made by Nikon, which if used with care and some intelligence, easily produces 98% of everything the expensiver Nikons do. Again with more manual override and a few other nifties usually found on the costlier models, like a multi-setting exposure system, tho I have to say the 65's metering is perfectly adequate as it is.
As my third, failing the above two, I'll go with Mr Flibble on the Epson RD1. I missed out on this wonderful camera when it came out, and now find the surviving ones too expensive (at least in Australia where they sell for their weight in gold) to purchase.
Ah, dreams!
Yeah, something like this.
I live in the usa, so that is my bias....when Ford makes a new Mustang GT-350, it is Very Different than a 1966 GT-350.
I am sure a camera would be similar.?
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