Author Topic: What happened to Kodak? (Read 1276 times)

voyager · « **on:** October 04, 2011, 05:14:36 PM »

Sad to see such a once powerful camera company lose it.

RT_Panther · « **Reply #1 on:** October 04, 2011, 06:31:05 PM »

The short answer is a long series of mangement mistakes.

To illustrate one.
Kodak made/makes an excellent CCD sensor but failed to see & capitalize on the shift to CMOS sensor.
-Along this line, I've at least one person state their opinion in that when Kodak was making sensors for Olympus, Kodak should've acquired Olympus camera division.

adash · « **Reply #2 on:** October 04, 2011, 08:42:20 PM »

I believe that their real revenue still comes from photo boots and labs and supplies for them. Those have been steadily declining over the last 10 years, but I have no idea why that sharp negative peak appears...

corgifan · « **Reply #3 on:** October 04, 2011, 09:04:54 PM »

One article I read on Kodak said they may be looking at selling their considerable patent portfolio, something which could fetch $1 billion. I'd bet that within ten years the name Kodak is just another brand name owned by a big, faceless, multi-national holding company who slaps it on cheap, generic products, and "the Great Yellow Father in Rochester" will only be a memory. A lot of fine old brands have gone that way. On the other hand, the right buyer with deep pockets and a vision for what Kodak could be again could revitalize the company.

Doug

cosinaphile · « **Reply #4 on:** October 13, 2011, 05:51:41 AM »

amother "impossible project" ala polaroid , kodak needs to get a visionary .........apple was brought back from the brink by visionary guidance

make great sensors and make a great camera to put it in , corporations are clueless in general and focuses on short term gain over stability and common sense

if kodak stopped makinfg those dozens of nasty bottom of the barrel point and shoots and put a world class sensor in asingle camera or 2 like contax g2 styled body or an epsonesque cosina\voigtlander rf body they could take over the world , so of course they will not do it

no vision =no future

panzerfaustnl · « **Reply #5 on:** October 13, 2011, 06:23:40 AM »

Kodak always had very neat things, for example an analoge camera with a preview, so you could see the picture before it got on film.

adash · « **Reply #6 on:** October 13, 2011, 06:40:34 AM »

Quote from: panzerfaustnl on October 13, 2011, 06:23:40 AM

Kodak always had very neat things, for example an analoge camera with a preview, so you could see the picture before it got on film.

Holly ****, I never knew of the existence of such a camera....now I wish it was of the interchangeable lens type....

RT_Panther · « **Reply #7 on:** October 13, 2011, 01:51:56 PM »

Talked to my local brick & mortar camera store today.....They said Fuji treats them better than Kodak....

voyager · « **Reply #8 on:** October 17, 2011, 12:17:45 AM »

Kodak also had the very first DSLR.

What happened to Kodak?