Nikon Turns Away from Film

Wow. Talk about the end of an era. Japanese camera maker Nikon has announced that it is substantially moving away from the film market and putting all its development into digital. It's a whole new world. The company is not closing the door on film entirely (at least not yet) and will continue to make two film cameras available, the F6 and the FM10, but intends make no further updates to them. Mark Greenberg, a photographer whose work has appeared in National Geographic and Life, gave a great analogy to The Washington Post: "It would be the same as Ford saying it is no longer producing an internal-combustion engine."

I didn't think too much about it at the time, but over Christmas, one of my four-year-old nephews was quite put off by the fact that his aunt took a picture but couldn't show it to him afterward. I guess that's the status quo now. The future keeps moving forward whether we're ready for it or not.