Nikon bans film images from this year's Nikon Photo Contest

[muser53]

Not posting this to spread panic about the "death" of film. Just thought it would be of interest to many here.

For me it shows a dreary lack of imagination on the part of Nikon.

http://www.nphotomag.com/2012/10/29/nikon-photo-contest-bans-images-from-film-cameras/

 

[Zonan]

I'd assume it would be because film would outclass digital and win, thus hurting sales 🙂

 

[back alley]

same as last year...

 

[KoNickon]

I read this as saying that you could scan a film image and if need be use editing software, and submit it. So I don't see that as banning submission taken on film.

 

[haempe]

I read this as saying that you could scan a film image and if need be use editing software, and submit it. So I don't see that as banning submission taken on film.

"Scans of photographs taken with film cameras are not eligible."

Hard to see it different than a ban.

 

[TXForester]

They don't want "real photographers" competing. 🙂

 

[sevo]

The contest is over. The real fun would be if one of the winners confessed to using film for the winning shot...

 

[KoNickon]

I read this as saying that you could scan a film image and if need be use editing software, and submit it. So I don't see that as banning submission taken on film.

Might help if I read it more closely -- thanks for pointing that out.

Well, I guess Nikon wants to promote its digital products -- their contest, their rules.

 

[semilog]

The digital camera sales numbers recently posted to another thread are somewhat Kobayashi Maru. So they take a page out of JT Kirk's book: if you can't win, change the rules.

;P

 

[nikon_sam]

Can I still take pictures with my film cameras...???

 

[squareshooter]

I am having a lot of trouble giving a hoot about Nikon's contest. Big companies are well, big. And awkward. These people have had an ad saying I have to throw all my old photos away. That is pretty silly considering no matter what you have been told, I will not be able to get new photos of Elvis. Or Sinatra. Or Grace Kelly, or Groucho, or Liz Taylor...like I said big companies lurch around a lot. It's probably best to worry about something else for instance how hard it is to get a copy of Anton Weburn's Greatest Hits CD.

 

[jim sparx]

Can I still take pictures with my film cameras...???

No, film cameras are dead. Send them to me, PM for address, postage paid.

 

[shadowfox]

Not posting this to spread panic about the "death" of film. Just thought it would be of interest to many here.

For me it shows a dreary lack of imagination on the part of Nikon.

http://www.nphotomag.com/2012/10/29/nikon-photo-contest-bans-images-from-film-cameras/

That's just sad.

 

[enzozhang]

The contest is over. The real fun would be if one of the winners confessed to using film for the winning shot...

LOL we could definitely scan an image and use software to forge the EXIF information on it!

 

[pdexposures]

same as last year...

Well the article was referencing last years competition anyway haha

 

[Keith]

It's ironic that the company that still produces what is probably the most sophisticated film SLR ever made (F6) would be so stupid.

So much for 'photography!'

 

[thegman]

Nikon aren't in the photography business, they're in the selling cameras business.

Does strike me as odd though, to allow medium format digital, which could be a Hasselblad or something, but not allow cameras that Nikon themselves make, as Keith says.

I expect the competition is being run by a manager who probably does not even know that Nikon still make film cameras.

I think it's just standard big-business eye-rolling stuff. No point analyzing why they've done it, Nikon probably doesn't know either.

 

[Range-rover]

I'm sure there's other contests out there but it would be funny if the winning entry was
taken with a Nikon Rangefinder doh!

Range

 

[Keith]

I know Nikon are just a camera manufacturer but for me they have always been 'the' camera manufacturer ... they even get a mention from Paul Simon. 😀

 

[daveleo]

@Keith & thegman . . .

You guys ruined everything now.
It's a small group of old guys in a basement somewhere in a forgotten Nikon
factory who have been producing F6's. Small budget got lost under "miscellaneous".

You blew their cover.

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