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RE: Kodak may file for Chapter 11 Brankruptcy soon....

brad kaste

brad kaste

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RE: Kodak may file for Chapter 11 Brankruptcy soon....

Things don't look good for Kodak. In fact, things haven't looked good for them for some time now. They're trying to sell off a lot of their patents but there seems to be no takers. Even though they invented the first digital camera way back in 1975,...the American icon resisted the change from film to the digital explosion. Not until 2004 does Kodak begin the digital format makeover. It's too bad. What a wonderful 100+ year old company that may not be around anymore or much different than it was.

I'm sure most of us had run rolls of their film through our earlier cameras. I still have my Nikkormat 35 mm. but it's a dinosaur too.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/mone...merican-icon-kodak-facing-possible-bankruptcy

This lower link gives a brief history lesson on Kodak and what photographic inventions it brought forth:

http://www.mobileinquirer.com/2012/history-of-kodak-in-milestones/


 
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Brad Kaste,

I lived four years of my life in Rochester, New York, and can remember touring the Rochester plant as a child, and it is sad that they did not adapt in time to really keep their company solvent. It kind of reminds me of Polaroid, and I hope they can come out of it.
 
Bad time to be in the camera biz Kodak, Olympus and Polaroid soon to be gone or gone at this point.
 
Sad. I've run a lot of Kodachrome 64, 25, Ektachrome, Tri-X and Kodacolor through my cameras over the years. Kodachrome 25 was one of the few films classed as truly archival and their Technical Pan 2415 produced some of the most stunning astronomical photographs prior to the era of the Hubble Space Telescope in both black & white and colour after going through a gas hypersensitization process and employing the RGB 3-filter technique (Australian astronomer David Malin produced some truly stunning images this way).
 
For people that study pioneering businesses that started up and were a great success, Kodak Eastman was one of the great ones, a success story.

In the old days, Camera's were like the most sophisticated things on Earth next to watches. (We're talking a VERY long time ago). To buy one, then to develop the glass plates, etc, was a very expensive endeavor. To be able to take photos was also very difficult. No classes on it, very expensive to go through your film and plates, etc to learn by.

Then comes Kodak Eastman that develop this cardboard box, and some film on a roll, and you have this little tin arm that you push, and a 'click' is heard, and you advance the film, then develop it, and Voila! Pictures, and the camera's were affordable, the worlds first affordable camera's.

Massive hit! Soon, people were opening developing shops for the film. The Brownie camera line became instantly famous, everyone had one, and they kept famous for several decades.


Its a shame that Kodak wasnt the first in the frontier of modern camera's. Perhaps they could have kept the momentum going.

One single good idea can bring them right back. The brownie got them to where they were. A new concept could bring them right back again.



Bill
 
Kodak Australia went belly up several years ago, followed within a year or so by Fuji-film.
I used Fuji almost exclusively from the early '80s and was not amused.
Of course, there was a deal of wailing, wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth from the redundant employees, despite the fact that over 90% of these people used "Digital Cameras".
Nothing surprises me today.
:kilroy:
 
In business, if you don't keep up with the times, you'll get left behind.
 
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