The beginning of the end for Nikons with film

I had pretty much accepted that it would come sometime in my lifetime, but Nikon UK, today has announced that it's starting the phase out of their film bodies. Holy Shit. > 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. 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.