Fujifilm press release: Fujifilm Professional has announced that the final shipment of Fujichrome Velvia 50 has now been received. This means that once the stock held in the company’s warehouse has been sold there will be no more of the film available. Fujifilm has been forced into ceasing production of Velvia 50 due to vital [...]

The 85 product info page at Polaroid says: "Please be advised that Polaroid will be discontinuing 85 film within the first 3 months of 2006 due to the phasing out of components used in the production of this film. "The discontinuation of 85 does not impact the supply or manufacture of 55 film, an alternative [...]

According to this post on photo.net, Hasselblad have discontinued the XPan II and have limited stock on hand. I will call Hasselblad on Monday, 16 January 2006 and attempt to confirm with them directly. While I think it’s a damn shame, I’m not surprised, either. While I haven’t used the XPan II, I have and [...]

According to this press release from Nikon UK, Nikon are discontinuing production of most film equipment, including their range of large format lenses. The flagship pro SLR F6 and the manual SLR FM10 stay, as well as the following manual lenses: Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 Nikkor 50mm [...]