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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Photography Equipment => Cameras / Lenses => Topic started by: Beppe Grillo on January 17, 2014, 03:59
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http://kodakcamera.jkiltd.com/Americas/ (http://kodakcamera.jkiltd.com/Americas/)
New digital cameras from Kodak…
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LOL, they're 15 years late.
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They had 15 years to prepare their secret weapon ;)
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They were one of the first with the technology, unfortunately they didn't want to negatively impact their film divisions. That the problem with large dinosaurs. Unable to move quickly, too many internal forces working against change.
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RIP Kodak,Konica,Minolta,Agfa,Contax,Yashica ....... only the best(Canon) can survive in DSLR competition!
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Chinese company bought rights to use Kodak brand.
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They are all getting killed by phones. Do regular people even own cameras anymore?
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A Chinese company, JK Imaging, required the rights to use the name Kodak on their products.
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So they come back producing point and shoots? This segment is in a downward spiral for sales because of phones. P&S's probably won't exist in a few years or will morph into something else.
If they don't come up with something innovative they may not be around for long.
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Hm, 36 x optical zoom (Astro Zoom) sounds good for - nothing 8)
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FYI
Eastman Kodak Company, commonly known as Kodak, is an American technology company focused on imaging solutions and services for businesses.[3] The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York, United States and incorporated in New Jersey.[4] It was founded by George Eastman in 1888.
Kodak provides packaging, functional printing, graphic communications and professional services for businesses around the world. Its main business segments are Digital Printing & Enterprise and Graphics, Entertainment & Commercial Films.[3][5]
Kodak is best known for photographic film products. During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. The company's ubiquity was such that its tagline "Kodak moment" entered the common lexicon to describe a personal event that demanded to be recorded for posterity.[6]
Kodak began to struggle financially in the late 1990s as a result of the decline in sales of photographic film and its slowness in transitioning to digital photography, despite having invented the core technology used in current digital cameras. 2007 was the most recent year in which the company made a profit.[7] As part of a turnaround strategy, Kodak focused on digital photography and digital printing and attempted to generate revenues through aggressive patent litigation.[8][9]
In January 2012, Kodak filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York .[10][11][12] In February 2012, Kodak announced that it would cease making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames and focus on the corporate digital imaging market.[13] In August 2012, Kodak announced the intention to sell its photographic film (excluding motion picture film), commercial scanners and kiosk operations as a measure to emerge from bankruptcy.[14] In January 2013, the Court approved financing for the company to emerge from bankruptcy by mid-2013.[15] Kodak sold many of its patents for approximately $525,000,000 to a group of companies (including Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung, Adobe Systems and HTC) under the name Intellectual Ventures and RPX Corporation.[16]
On September 3, 2013, Kodak emerged from bankruptcy having shed its large legacy liabilities and exited several businesses.[17] Personalized Imaging and Document Imaging are now part of Kodak Alaris, a separate company owned by the U.K.-based Kodak Pension Plan.[18][19]
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Hm, 36 x optical zoom (Astro Zoom) sounds good for - nothing 8)
They have a 52 x too
http://kodakcamera.jkiltd.com/Americas/cameras/astroZoom/az522.php (http://kodakcamera.jkiltd.com/Americas/cameras/astroZoom/az522.php)
Sounds good for… nothing more
lol
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I heard somewhere that someone from Kodak actually developed the first digital camera - but then Kodak didn't move forward with it fearing the effect on film. Pretty scary how technology can completely change the game if you don't find a way to quickly adapt. . .
My first camera was an old Kodak brownie that my grandmother gave me when I was 6! Kodak was a very important part of the photo world for more than a century - it was a sad day when they made the last Kodachrome.
I can't see the point in making point and shoots for the consumer market at this point either ... seems like a huge recipe for financial disaster.
LOL ... random thoughts ... Since November, I've been trying to organize all of my 80,000 or so photos taken since I went digital in 2006 into one master catalog on a 4TB drive - with backups spread across several drives - and feeling a bit overwhelmed, to put it mildly! If I was limited to a couple of rolls of film every time I went out, the task would not be so daunting!
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I have a kodak DCS pro back that fits on a hassleblad. It still works like a charm, and has an excellent image. The software is long out of date, and they haven't supported it for probably 10 years, but i still have one client who insists that I use that back to capture. They think the colors are more accurate. ( It's a perfume client- just as dogs can hear things humans can't hear, perfume people can see things other humans can't see)