It was announced last week that Canons most advanced film camera has reached the end of its road. It seems manufacturing stopped in 2010 and they have finally run out of stock. This camera was released in 2000, I got mine in 2001. We will never see a camera from a main stream manufacturer last 18 years without replacement ever again, I had no idea I would have mine so long or where the photography world would go. My one has been in retirement for quite a few years, but strangely I dug it out, fitted the grip & installed some batteries only 2 days before the announcement came of its demise. What a great camera & if needed you can also hammer nails in with it too.