Nikon just discontinued its latest film camera. I know what you’re thinking. “Does Nikon still make a film camera? In 2020?” It did. And not only that, the F6 was one of the best film cameras ever made.

The F6 is an SLR camera, just like today's DSLR, only without the D for "digital". It has all the modern features you've come to expect, except it records to 35mm film instead of a digital sensor. It's incredible that Nikon still made and sold them new. Ironically, its demise comes at a time when film photography is more popular than it has been in years.

"The odds of a major manufacturer making a brand new film camera today are infinitesimal," James Tocchio, editor of Casual Photophile and owner of F Stop Cameras, told Lifewire via email. "Designing and manufacturing a new product costs an exorbitant amount of money, and there just isn't enough of a market."

The F6 was Nikon's best film camera ever, in terms of features. It had blazing fast autofocus, the ability to use almost any Nikon lens ever made (up to the mid-20th century!), and all the niceties of modern DSLR cameras. It could even record the metadata of your photos – shutter speed, aperture, date and time, etc. – to a memory card so you could later add it to scans of your photos.