Where are the new ones

[desertratt]

Today I bought a camera that was made between 1940 and 1942. It's the same model as the first camera I ever owned. The world is awash with fine, dirt cheap film cameras. And if there's a demand, somebody will make them. Remember, it's the non-pros that drive the market. There are not enough professional photogs to support all those new cameras that are being manufactured.
I adore film but when I am on deadline I use a digital. I probably have 25 film cameras and three digital. I mostly use my film lenses on my DSLR.

[flatulent1]

Actually, I think there is at least one new film camera available in each of the main categories I can think of, except for Point & Shoot. This makes sense since the P&S has always traditionally been used by consumers who value convenience above everything and, despite all its good points, analog today is not the most convenient format - and even here, one could consider the disposable 35mm camera the successor to the P&S (although with considerable sacrifice of IQ).

Fuji makes a line of P&S film cameras called the Natura, though they're only available in Japan. And they're expensive. I could buy a couple of lenses for the price of a Klasse W, and still have money left over for a Stylus Epic or two. That's not to say I wouldn't like to have one, of course.

[AgX]

The Fuji Natura is no longer in production since long.

[flatulent1]

Damn... Better get mine soon then.