DSLRBodies

It's holiday shopping season and I'm fielding DSLR questions, typically about availability. 

Nikon made ~70,000 DSLRs in 2024 and quite a few less in 2025 (we won't know exactly how few until mid-2026). Much of what you still see available in stores and online is hangover inventory, not boxes of things that were just made and shipped in just in time for the holidays. 

While Nikon corporate still lists six DSLRs on their site (D3500, D7500, D500, D780, D850, and D6), as far as I know the last three to be still manufactured and which are still available here in the US as new products are just these: D7500, D780, and D850. D6 inventory still exists, so you may find some of those in stock, too, but I don't believe it's still being manufactured. It's possible that you may see other models available, but they'll be either gray market imports or heavily hung over inventory.  

The steep discounting and lack of tariff jacking is another indicator that we're now on a dwindling supply and about to see an extinction event:

• D7500 — US$200 off, so US$800
• D780 — US$600 off, so US$1550
• D850 — US$600 off, so US$2000

You'll note that B&H shows the D6 in stock, but at list price (US$6500). That bounce back up to list price is the typical indicator that the product is likely no longer being made and may not even be available to dealers from the subsidiary. B&H does that price bump back to list when they want to keep the few that they have remaining available just in case a big client needs to replace a body exactly (that's a hidden "customer support" thing they do, as it costs B&H money to hold inventory). The stages go like this:

1. Steep discount near cessation of manufacturing
2. Bounce to list price to keep some last inventory around
3. Move to selling gray market versions after official inventory depletes

We're at Stage 1 and headed towards 2 some time in 2026 with the remaining Nikon DSLRs (others, such as the D500 hit Stage 3 some time ago). 

F-mount lenses are a different story. Both Nikon and B&H have about 60 F-mount lenses listed still. Nikon has had a history of keeping some lenses available after they stopped making the cameras that used them. Thus, I expect F-mount lens choices to start to winnow some in 2026, but not go away any time soon. A few F-mount lenses may never go away (as a few manual focus lenses haven't), but those won't be exotics or low volume sellers.

Lest anyone panic, those three remaining Nikon DSLRs are arguably the second-best DX DSLR made, the best 24mp DSLR Nikon ever made, and the best all-around DSLR anyone ever made. All still take remarkably excellent images. You don't need to avoid them. Just be aware that if you buy one of the remaining three models today, that parts and Nikon service will likely end in 2032 for them, but that's still seven years of useful life.