But while consumer models were quickly supplanted by digital cameras, the professional end of the market still kept some makers in the game well into the 2010s. Some may have been surprised that Nikon – a camera maker that looks to be edging away from DSLRs in favour of mirrorless – would have kept a film model in its inventory this long. Replacing the heavyweight F5, the camera that had stolen a march on Canon’s market share of pro-level 35mm SLRS, the F6 was tough and rugged without tipping over into brutalist design. It was, as EMULSIVE pointed out in a piece written on Friday, the culmination of “everything Nikon knew about making robust, reliable, and supremely usable cameras”. The Nikon F6, in production for 16 years (Pic: Thegreenj/Wikimedia Commons) It could also shoot with any Nikon 35mm lens made since 1977.

It boasted shutter speeds from 30s to 1/8000, colour matrix metering, ISO up to 6400, 11-point autofocus – even an internal memory system that could remember the exposure details of up to 50 rolls of film. The writing was already on the wall in October, it was announced the F6 had already been discontinued in some territories, such as Europe, though it was still listed for sale in Japan and by some US dealers.īut according to reports first circulated by Nikon Rumors on Wednesday (2 December), the plug has finally been pulled – the Nikon F6 is no longer in production.įirst introduced in 2004, the F6 was the pinnacle of 35mm SLR design. The Nikon F6 – the last film 35mm SLR remaining in production – has finally been discontinued by Nikon.

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