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The end of the roll

Canon is officially bringing to an end its film era. After 80 years in the celluloid camera business, the Japanese firm will stop selling its only remaining film camera, the EOS-1V.

It's not a surprising move. In 2010, the firm had halted the production of the professional SLR body, it just took eight years for Canon to get rid of its remaining inventory.

The move comes 84 years after the release of the Kwanon prototype, a Leica-clone imagined by Goro Yoshida, a camera repairman and one of the founders of Canon - but Yoshida left the company two years later, even before it released it first camera, the Hansa Canon (developed, ironically, with the Nippon Kogaku Kogyo company, later known as Nikon!)

There have been a lot of great film cameras in Canon's history - from the Canonflex to the AE-1 - so I'm always filled with melancholy when I see an era come to an end. This news also coincides with Leica's decision to discontinue its M7 film camera, but that's mitigated by the fact that it still sells two film cameras - the MP and M-A.

Canon's news, though, is unlikely to impact the film photography market, which has been experiencing a resurgence in the last three years in no small part thanks to instant film and Kodak Alaris. The latter brought back a few loved emulsions in recent months, proving that there's still a demand for the grainy aesthetics of film photography. -- Olivier Laurent

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