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Nikon has announced that they will be strengthening their digital line-up for 2006 by focusing management resources on digital cameras in place of film cameras.

As the film camera market shrinks and the popularity of compact digital cameras increases, demand for products that offer advanced features and extra value is continuing to grow. High performance digital SLR cameras are performing well as users shift from film-based SLR cameras or upgrade from compact digital cameras to digital SLR cameras.

As a result of the new strategy 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.

However, Nikon will continue to support the F6 and FM10 cameras as lenses as a proof of their on-going commitment to professional photographers.

In related news, Lexar has developed a 512GB SD card — yep, 512 GIGABYTES and for a mere $53.99!

Okay, it’s just wishful thinking but you’d figure if SkyMall made a typo it would be in the accompanying text, not the image itself…

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