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01-04-2012, 03:56 PM
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Wel it appears we won't be able to sing Kodachrome much longer, Kodak is applying for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Kodak reported to be preparing for bankruptcy protection: Digital Photography Review
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01-04-2012, 03:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | | They discontinued Kodachrome film a long time ago...never stopped me from singing it! |
01-04-2012, 04:00 PM
| | | | Kodak was definitely an innovator. Unfortunately, it seemed like they were unable to keep up with the change in technology that revolutionized photography (hey, kind of like the music industry that tried to litigate its way back to prosperity using an archaic business model). I'm not saying that's the only thing that contributed to this - I'm sure there's a lot of other stuff - but it definitely seemed like Kodak wasn't trying to keep up with the times.
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01-04-2012, 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by LiquidMidnight  Kodak was definitely an innovator. Unfortunately, it seemed like they were unable to keep up with the change in technology that revolutionized photography (hey, kind of like the music industry that tried to litigate its way back to prosperity using an archaic business model). I'm not saying that's the only thing that contributed to this - I'm sure there's a lot of other stuff - but it definitely seemed like Kodak wasn't trying to keep up with the times. | They tried to build me-too digital compact cameras....
As with anything else, you need to lead and not follow. |
01-04-2012, 04:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Oracle, Arizona | | | The Federal government (in the USA) still uses film cameras for a great many thing including law enforcement. This is due to several actual advantages of chemical based photography. Kodac may have gotten some hot water economically and competition from Fuji but film photography will continue. |
01-04-2012, 05:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Western Pennsylvania | | | Kodak's main failing point was not switching over to digital sooner. They held out with film too long. Nothing against film, but most photography (at least amateur) these days is digital. |
01-04-2012, 05:33 PM
|  | Guess what?! I got a fever! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: San jose, Cal | | | didn't even know they still existed...
Although my liqueur store still sells with Kodak film 400
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01-04-2012, 06:30 PM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Didn't they discover the silicon who-Z-what's-it that's the basis for all digital photography?
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01-04-2012, 06:41 PM
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Unofficialy endorsing EBMM, Avatar Speakers | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Seattle (ish), WA | | | An engineer for Kodak invented the digital sensor actually... so while some of you say Kodak needed to keep up with the times aren't exactly correct. They WERE the times, they just didn't do what they needed to do with it (market it, advance it, keep focus on it). Then they tossed aside the Olympics, where Fuji came in and sponsored instead, and everyone started talking Fuji, not Kodak.
Someone will invariably buy up the company for the many patents... |
01-04-2012, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Ray Salamon An engineer for Kodak invented the digital sensor actually... so while some of you say Kodak needed to keep up with the times aren't exactly correct. They WERE the times, they just didn't do what they needed to do with it (market it, advance it, keep focus on it). Then they tossed aside the Olympics, where Fuji came in and sponsored instead, and everyone started talking Fuji, not Kodak.
Someone will invariably buy up the company for the many patents... | I can't really find the source for my information, but they were slow to market digital cameras or something. |
01-04-2012, 07:23 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: New York | | | My Grandfather worked for Kodak back in the day, and was instrumental in the development of the Instamatic camera and the flashcube. At one point Kodak employed 60,000+ people in the Rochester, NY area....... today that number is closer to 5,000.
Sad day for my hometown. |
01-04-2012, 08:10 PM
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01-04-2012, 08:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Vancouver, BC, CANADA | | | They ended processing a while ago. I remember sending in my dad's rolls to be processed like a week before it ended. |
01-04-2012, 08:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | Incidentally, I've sung Kodachrome in Kodachrome Basin State Park in Utah.  |
01-04-2012, 09:08 PM
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01-04-2012, 09:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Oak Park, MI | | | They really broke the American family into photography with the Browne. The instimatic was the digital point and shoot of the day in the 70's. And Kodachrome 25 was the finest proffesional color film ever made. But by the 80's Fuji Velvia really started to cut into their business.
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01-04-2012, 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Ray Salamon An engineer for Kodak invented the digital sensor actually... so while some of you say Kodak needed to keep up with the times aren't exactly correct. They WERE the times, they just didn't do what they needed to do with it (market it, advance it, keep focus on it). Then they tossed aside the Olympics, where Fuji came in and sponsored instead, and everyone started talking Fuji, not Kodak.
Someone will invariably buy up the company for the many patents... | I work for Kodak and have since 81. This statement pretty much sums it up. George Fisher was the worst thing that happened to Kodak. Most of the bad decisions were made under his watch. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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