Have We Seen The Last Release of a Serious Film Camera?

[whitecat]

Leica will come out with something for 5-6K.

 

[Wlodek]

Where film really shines is in the bigger formats: 6x6, 6x7, 6x9 and large formats. What I would love to see is more cameras like the Bessa - maybe lighter and more compact and with interchangeable lenses. And yes, I think those will come.

 

[Keith]

The longer this thread/poll runs the less convinced I am that we will see any new film cameras from this point in time. With conjecture about Kodak's future alternating between 'yes they will' and 'no they won't' along with Fuji discontinuing the odd emulsion as they see fit and a reduced range of MF and LF emulsions available ... oh yes and the price of silver climbing steadily.

What chance!

 

[tedwhite]

A friend just gave me 40 rolls of freezer-kept Fujichrome 400 36-exposure and I stuck a new battery in my 1971 black and brassy Spotmatic. So I'm good for another 1,440 photographs. I'd love to see a new "serious" newcomer, but my various old ones continue to show no signs terminal illnesses so I don't mind waiting. Perhaps if we all ordered a half-dozen 100 ft. rolls of Tri-X we might breathe new life into ailing Kodak?

 

[stevebrot]

My Chamonix 045N-2 is a recent design (debuted about a year ago) for a niche market. I think that it is reasonable to assume that basic mechanical and electronic film cameras will still be developed and produced as the stock of repairable film bodies dwindles.


Steve

 

[PKR]

My Chamonix 045N-2 is a recent design (debuted about a year ago) for a niche market. I think that it is reasonable to assume that basic mechanical and electronic film cameras will still be developed and produced as the stock of repairable film bodies dwindles.


Steve

If you look at the number of Nikon F3s made and the length of the production run - and the vast amount of repair parts in stock, it's likely to be usable for a long time. I'm sure there are other Leica, Nikon and Canon models that will be working for a long time.

 

[dmc]

No and Cosina.

 

[jsrockit]

The last mainstream film camera... probably. The last serious one, no.

 

[Pherdinand]

no.



Which camera company has the most serious film cameras in production now?

Stephen

Can we take that as an unofficial announcement of the Bessa R5? 😀

come on tell us...what does it have? how does it look? is there a tourmaline green version of it?

EDIT: oh damn. I can';t believe i fell for a 2-year old question.

 

[35mmdelux]

We have the MP and the M7. what more can one ask for?

 

[tedwhite]

I'd like to just once see an M7 or an MP. Not many hanging around down here in dust-blown, tumbleweed-strewn, sun-blasted Cochise County, Arizona.