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The impending demise of the SLR camera in the digital age has been long foretold. Now, the fear of losing an iconic product that captured the imagination of millions of shutterbugs just became real.
According to a recent Nikkei report, Japanese giant Nikon will withdraw from the single-lens reflex or SLR camera-making business and shift toward pure mirrorless digital offerings amid intensifying competition from smartphone cameras, as well as declining sales in the last couple of years.
The report pointed out that Canon, the largest SLR manufacturer only ahead of Nikon, also plans to “stop producing flagship SLR models within a
