F6 Officially Discontinued

The Nikon F6 film SLR camera is now officially discontinued - Nikon Rumors

Sad news indeed, but not surprising considering Nikon's financial woes. :(

I just recently had my F6 CLA'd and fresh rubber installed. I hope to get many years of enjoyment from the last and greatest 35mm SLR camera ever made! I'll never sell mine!

Nikon announced the F6 way back around PhotoKina 2014. Whoever wants one has had 16 years to get it. I would imagine that years ago, Nikon manufactured a bunch of them, and when stock finally runs out, they officially discontinued it.

• List of discontinued DSLR/SLR and other bodies: 一眼レフカメラ製品一覧 (旧製品) | 一眼レフカメラ | ニコンイメージング
  
• Discontinued F-mount lenses: Fマウントレンズ製品一覧 (旧製品) | NIKKORレンズ | ニコンイメージング
  

Nikon announced the F6 way back around PhotoKina 2014. Whoever wants one has had 16 years to get it. I would imagine that years ago, Nikon manufactured a bunch of them, and when stock finally runs out, they officially discontinued it.

• List of discontinued DSLR/SLR and other bodies: 一眼レフカメラ製品一覧 (旧製品) | 一眼レフカメラ | ニコンイメージング
  
• Discontinued F-mount lenses: Fマウントレンズ製品一覧 (旧製品) | NIKKORレンズ | ニコンイメージング
  

Not surprising but still hate to see the last of the Nikon film bodies gone. I have a F6 and would love a updated one to use the newer lenses but that is unlikely. It looks like Leica is the only quality 35mm film camera left, but since I have 7 functioning Nikon film bodies, I am probably covered for life.

Nikon announced the F6 way back around PhotoKina 2014.

I think it was actually announced in 2004.

I think it was actually announced in 2004.

typo.. for Shun.

:)

I think it was actually announced in 2004.

It was 2004. Not sure why I said 16 years ago and typed 2014. We are still in 2020, not 2030, right? :D

It was 2004. Not sure why I said 16 years ago and typed 2014. We are still in 2020, not 2030, right? :D

Some how I am not surprised.

The Nikon F6 film SLR camera is now officially discontinued - Nikon Rumors

 

Sad news indeed, but not surprising considering Nikon's financial woes. :(

The financial woes is unlikely to have anything to do with it. As Shaun notes, it is 16 years old. All F6 machining tools are most likely long gone. The F6 cameras sold in recent years were made long time ago, or assembled of parts produced long time ago.

Nikon is probably just running low on parts and have to stop.

Sad to see, but not surprised.

I thought it was not terribly long ago(in the last year or so) that someone had visited the factory and reported that the F6 line was there but running at extremely low volume(like 50 per month). There's a thread on the Rangefinder forum where a few folks had ordered from B&H in recent years and received SNs higher than previously released production figures.

I would have loved a firmware update to use E and AI-P lenses...

Sad to see, but not surprised.

 

I thought it was not terribly long ago(in the last year or so) that someone had visited the factory and reported that the F6 line was there but running at extremely low volume(like 50 per month). There's a thread on the Rangefinder forum where a few folks had ordered from B&H in recent years and received SNs higher than previously released production figures.

 

I would have loved a firmware update to use E and AI-P lenses...

I think it was the visit when Nikon invited the press to visit their production line of the Z. Now the Z moves to Thailand and they quit making the F6 and Df as well.

Some how I am not surprised.

What aren't you surprised? I making an arithmetic error/typo or Nikon discontinuing the F6? :rolleyes:

I think production for both the F6 and Df had stopped a long time ago. The F6 uses the Multi-CAM 2000 AF module that is shared with the D2 family that was discontinued around 2007 when the D3 and D300 were announced, and of course no other current camera needs all the film transport mechanism. The Df shares the sensor with the D4 that is now two generations away. Most likely Nikon manufactured a bunch of both years ago and just let them gradually sell off.

Actually the F mount itself is no longer Nikon's emphasis any more.

What aren't you surprised? I making an arithmetic error/typo or Nikon discontinuing the F6? :rolleyes:

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I am not surprised that you think 2004 and type 2014. I don't think you made mathematic mistake just what you think and what you wrote are different. For example when you think Z6 you types D6.

I am not surprised that you think 2004 and type 2014. I don't think you made mathematic mistake just what you think and what you wrote are different. For example when you think Z6 you types D6.

I am so used to type D<model number> that it is automatic. Pretty soon I'll start typing D7 instead od Z7 and there will be rumors that a new DSLR will be available for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. ;)

The Nikon F6 film SLR camera is now officially discontinued - Nikon Rumors

Indeed. brand news ones were available at B&H just two months or so ago. Not any more. I looked because my F6 suffered from water damage at the fire and I was going to replace it, did not do it only because it was a film camera. I remember Nikon was to maintain this one while the other film cameras were being discontinued. So they changed their mind

So discontinuing the F6 and Df, moving production of the Z6 and Z7 II to Thailand Nikon now only makes the D6 in their Sendai factory.

May not be the case - although I do not know for sure.

Panasonic and Sony have run parallel productions line of some of their higher end products in both Japan and China.

A concrete example I experienced first hand when I lived in Japan (although almost 10 years ago) was Lumix GH1 and GH2. They were produced in Japan exclusively for home market sale, and world market production was done from China simultaneously.

I don't know if Nikon is running paralel lines as well, but I know both Nikon and Canon makes cameras with hardware differences that blocks the use of other languages than Japanese and English in the home market cameras - so, it may not be possible to install firmware to enable French/German.. etc language support in a Japanese home market camera.

I handled one once at a camera store in St. Thomas USVI. It didn't have power so I didn't get to feel & hear it operate. I considered buying one for awhile but came to my senses and realized my F100 was more than adequate for my needs!

Eric Sande

Nikon announced the F6 way back around PhotoKina 2014. Whoever wants one has had 16 years to get it. I

Time flies when you're having fun. Sixteen years seems like only six.

May not be the case - although I do not know for sure.

Panasonic and Sony have run parallel productions line of some of their higher end products in both Japan and China.

A concrete example I experienced first hand when I lived in Japan (although almost 10 years ago) was Lumix GH1 and GH2. They were produced in Japan exclusively for home market sale, and world market production was done from China simultaneously.

I don't know if Nikon is running paralel lines as well, but I know both Nikon and Canon makes cameras with hardware differences that blocks the use of other languages than Japanese and English in the home market cameras - so, it may not be possible to install firmware to enable French/German.. etc language support in a Japanese home market camera.

It's possible that they would want to run parallel production and make the Z in Japan for the Japanese market as it's considered a plus in Japan. Not so in other countries especially the USA. As I have told you that I had ugly look when I asked a clerk in a Best Buy where a camera was made but when I was in Japan the clerk told me before I asked that the Z is made in Japan.

brand news ones were available at B&H just two months or so ago. Not any more.

Just checked, it's up on B&H again in back-order at $2,599.00. So this means it is still being produced then, as promised.

It was 2004. Not sure why I said 16 years ago and typed 2014. We are still in 2020, not 2030, right? :D

That is a pretty long run for a single model in this day and age.

typo.. for Shun.

 

:)

Typo or math error, with typo seeming more likely.

May not be the case - although I do not know for sure.

Panasonic and Sony have run parallel productions line of some of their higher end products in both Japan and China.

A concrete example I experienced first hand when I lived in Japan (although almost 10 years ago) was Lumix GH1 and GH2. They were produced in Japan exclusively for home market sale, and world market production was done from China simultaneously.

I don't know if Nikon is running paralel lines as well, but I know both Nikon and Canon makes cameras with hardware differences that blocks the use of other languages than Japanese and English in the home market cameras - so, it may not be possible to install firmware to enable French/German.. etc language support in a Japanese home market camera.

Most likely possible, if you can get the firmware. Presumably they don't supply it for you.

Sad, but we all (well, most of us) knew it was coming sooner or later.

Although some more flexible, smaller, and probably third-world film makers may serve a small specialist market, you know that the day is coming for film too.

The day of the local C41 processing has already passed for most of us:(

Fortunately, you can always 'brew your own' for many black and white developing chemicals. One person locally was still coating his own glass plates a few years ago.

see A List for needed photochemicals 1941

Save your view cameras, photography shall rise again.