3 film scanners instead of introducing new digital products??

kongg · 2nd November 2003

Most of the other cos are focusing their efforts towards the digital aspect of photography. Yet we see Nikon coming out with not 1 but 3 film scanners. I am puzzled. Comments pls.

Avatar · 2nd November 2003

Originally Posted by kongg

Most of the other cos are focusing their efforts towards the digital aspect of photography. Yet we see Nikon coming out with not 1 but 3 film scanners. I am puzzled. Comments pls.

Nothing wrong with that actually, there is still a healthy level of film or film/digital users. Besides, these are exactly what film users need to get digital images, ain't it? That said, their upcoming products will most definitely be in line with what they just launched. *hint*

Winston · 2nd November 2003

Originally Posted by Avatar

Nothing wrong with that actually, there is still a healthy level of film or film/digital users. Besides, these are exactly what film users need to get digital images, ain't it? That said, their upcoming products will most definitely be in line with what they just launched. *hint*

Ooohh.. Does it smell like a new film SLR camera on the horizon....

I do hope it's an improvement over the F80 rather than a F6.

A faster flash sync (maybe 1/180, like the D100) and a vertical grip w/shutter release would be a nice improvement.
Maybe even using the new Multi CAM2000 AF module...

AJ23 · 2nd November 2003

Originally Posted by kongg

Most of the other cos are focusing their efforts towards the digital aspect of photography. Yet we see Nikon coming out with not 1 but 3 film scanners. I am puzzled. Comments pls.

It's a pre-cursor to nicer stuff.

henavs · 2nd November 2003

Originally Posted by kongg

Most of the other cos are focusing their efforts towards the digital aspect of photography. Yet we see Nikon coming out with not 1 but 3 film scanners. I am puzzled. Comments pls.

There are still huge market for film camera out there...When we say digital is everything, we're mostly looking only at a few developed countries only, say S'pore, Japan, US, etc...What about countries like Indonesia, India, Middle East, South America & others?

Well, Fujifilm is not about to give up on film/slides eventho they concentrate more on digital...

Nikon is doin the right thing...Most film/slide users would want to digitize their images themselves...

shutterbug · 3rd November 2003

Film scanner is designed & developed by Nikon Film Scanner department. While consumer coolpix is developed by another different department. DSLR is design & developed by yet another departments. Since, they are all different department, they are free to launch their new product anytime. It doesn't make sense to stop producing scanner just because DSLR department are slow in rolling out their product?

2nd November 2003	#1
kongg Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Ang Mo Kio outskirts Posts: 784	3 film scanners instead of introducing new digital products?? Most of the other cos are focusing their efforts towards the digital aspect of photography. Yet we see Nikon coming out with not 1 but 3 film scanners. I am puzzled. Comments pls.

3rd November 2003	#6
shutterbug Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Anywhere Posts: 521	Film scanner is designed & developed by Nikon Film Scanner department. While consumer coolpix is developed by another different department. DSLR is design & developed by yet another departments. Since, they are all different department, they are free to launch their new product anytime. It doesn't make sense to stop producing scanner just because DSLR department are slow in rolling out their product?