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The film market has stabilised, and is now actually seeing slightly rising sales. I wonder if any major camera manufacturers have any plans to reintroduce film

The film market has stabilised, and is now actually seeing slightly rising sales. I wonder if any major camera manufacturers have any plans to reintroduce film cameras, currently Leica is the only company still manufacturing decent film cameras (those Lomography things barely count as cameras), Nikon is selling new old stock, and Canon just sold its last film camera a few weeks ago. I'm also interested to see if we get more colour film manufactures entering the game. Fuji is possibly killing off their film business (except Instax) as they haven't been able to scale down their production, which would leave Kodak with a monopoly on colour film.

a012 8y ago
Decent camera is way underestimated when talking about Leica film camera, it's like saying Tesla is a decent car. I don't think more companies will reintroduce film cameras though.
Finnucane 8y ago
No one at the scale of Nikon, Canon, or Fuji is going to come out with new film cameras. Rollei and Hasselblad gave up a few years back, and they, like Leica, were somewhat less dependent on the mass market. Fuji tried a few years back to introduce a new medium format folder (the GF670), which was reportedly pretty nice but just too damn expensive to find a market, not when the world is still awash in a sea of older but still serviceable cameras.
- sohkamyung 8y ago
  Canon has stopped selling the EOS-1V, it's last film camera [1] at the end of May 2018. [1] https://www.cnet.com/news/canon-just-stopped-selling-its-last-film-camera/ https://www.cnet.com/news/canon-just-stopped-selling-its-las...
ghaff 8y ago
It's hard to imagine anyone making any significant investments in new film cameras even if there are a few essentially novelty designs here and there. And I have to believe there's enough used gear floating around to meet market demand essentially indefinitely. Take a typical midrange film SLR to a used camera store and they'll basically laugh at you in my experience.

a012 8y ago

Decent camera is way underestimated when talking about Leica film camera, it's like saying Tesla is a decent car. I don't think more companies will reintroduce film cameras though.

Finnucane 8y ago

No one at the scale of Nikon, Canon, or Fuji is going to come out with new film cameras. Rollei and Hasselblad gave up a few years back, and they, like Leica, were somewhat less dependent on the mass market. Fuji tried a few years back to introduce a new medium format folder (the GF670), which was reportedly pretty nice but just too damn expensive to find a market, not when the world is still awash in a sea of older but still serviceable cameras.

sohkamyung 8y ago
Canon has stopped selling the EOS-1V, it's last film camera [1] at the end of May 2018. [1] https://www.cnet.com/news/canon-just-stopped-selling-its-last-film-camera/ https://www.cnet.com/news/canon-just-stopped-selling-its-las...

ghaff 8y ago

It's hard to imagine anyone making any significant investments in new film cameras even if there are a few essentially novelty designs here and there. And I have to believe there's enough used gear floating around to meet market demand essentially indefinitely. Take a typical midrange film SLR to a used camera store and they'll basically laugh at you in my experience.