The days of mass market film photography are coming to an end. Nikon has announced that their manufacturing of film cameras is coming to an end. Once their inventory of film cameras are done, they are closing up that division.

Nikon, the iconic Japanese camera maker, has put another nail in the coffin of traditional photography with plans to stop selling most of its film models in favor of hot-selling digital cameras.

Nikon said it will end production of all but two of its eight single-lens reflex (SLR) analogue models and axe all of its non-digital compacts, signalling the end of its more than 50 year history of selling film cameras.

Sales will end when stocks run out — news that could trigger a rush by camera buffs to snap up the remaining ones.

Experts believe the days of conventional film cameras are now numbered. Yahoo! News.