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Nikon will discontinue production of all lenses for large format cameras and enlarging lenses with sales of these products ceasing as soon as they run out of stock. This also applies to most of our film camera bodies, interchangeable manual focus lenses and related accessories. Although Nikon anticipates that the products will still be in retail distribution up to Summer 2006.

In recognition of Nikon’s commitment to professional photographers we will continue to manufacturer and sell the F6, our flagship film model, as well as a number of manual interchangeable lenses. Sales of the manual FM10 will also continue outside Europe.

That are quite some news, I think. With the manual lens compatible F-mount on the new D200 there now is a migration path for folks with loads of quality manual lenses, so this announcement was just a matter of time. Still it is a surprise that is was made so quickly after the D200 release. If Nikon will keep up to this pace and if all this will translate into an even more competitive range of digital products, good.