Nikon Issues Small Recall for a 16-Year-Old Film Camera
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#3Nikon still sells the Nikon F6 film camera. All existing stock was probably manufactured a loooong time ago, but it is still technically a current product, so I imagine they’re obligated to provide support and government-mandated environmental fixes.
https://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/filmcamera/slr/f6/
(I’d love to see the sales numbers for the F6. I can’t even guess the order of magnitude of global sales per year. 1? 10? 100?)
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#5Nikon still sells the Nikon F6 film camera. All existing stock was probably manufactured a loooong time ago, but it is still technically a current product, so I imagine they’re obligated to provide support and government-mandated environmental fixes. https://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/filmcamera/slr/f6/ (I’d love to see the sales numbers for the F6. I can’t even guess the order of magnitude of global sales per year. 1?…
As of December 2019, Nikon was still building new units of the F6.
https://petapixel.com/2019/12/10/you-can-still-buy-a-brand-n...
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#6> In fact, only 152 units are impacted… so few that Nikon actually lists every affected serial number in the recall notice:
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#7I've never worked in a context that made complex physical goods. Is it surprising to others that they even know which specific 152 cameras were over-plasticized?
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The article seems to indicate this is a pretty straightforward situation where it comes hazardous substances.
I'm not sure this is something the company could ignore without potential consequences.
It might simply be a supplier found thing happened, they notified the other companies and so on.
Re: Nikon Issues Small Recall for a 16-Year-Old Film Camera
#10I love how the idea of Japanese conscientiousness has become almost a meme for how we wish companies were run. Other examples you've probably seen come across the webs:
-- Hotel apologizes in advance for a brief 1 minute planned disruption of in-room internet at 4am https://www.google.com/search?q=japanese+hotel+internet+apol...
-- Japanese train company issues apology for train leaving 20 seconds early https://www.google.com/search?q=tokyo+rail+apologizes+train+...