Ikea has announced that it is sunsetting its catalog as part of a continued transition to digital sales. Described by Ikea as "iconic and beloved," the publication will cease both print and digital publication.
Canon just officially discontinued the EOS-1V, the company's last remaining film camera. The move brings an official end to Canon's film camera business after an 80-year run.
It's the end of an era: Leica has discontinued the M7 film rangefinder, the last numbered M series camera before the Leica M8 brought the iconic line into the realm of digital photography.
Olympus has officially announced that it's killing off its Four Thirds mount lenses and focusing instead on the Micro Four Thirds mount.
DRTV has officially lost all three of its best-known personalities. Alamby Leung left suddenly in 2013. Kaiman (Kai) Wong, the face of the show, announced his departure last week. And now Lok Cheung, DRTV's lovable cameraman, announced that he has resigned.
Sad news in the world of film photography: on Monday, the Japanese camera and lens company Cosina announced that it is discontinuing the Voigtlander Bessa 35mm rangefinder camera and a host of accessories and lenses for them. The Bessa R2M, Bessa R3M, and Bessa R4M are no more.
Yesterday marked the end of another piece of Kodak's once-powerful film manufacturing business. The company used 100 pounds of dynamite to take down the 92-year-old Building 53 at Eastman Business Park in Rochester, New York. The sprawling 250,000-square-foot plant, once used to manufacture acetate base for camera film, was reduced to 1,500 tons of steel and concrete in less than 20 seconds.