kevjohn

January 05, 2012 at 1:57pm

Kodak has been a very innovative company throughout its history. Heck, they practically invented hobbyist photography, and their products and services for professional photogs were among the best, if not the best overall, for decades. Then you blink and they're churning out low-quality comsumer grade crap and are unable to keep up with the arms race of the prosumer and professional gear makers.

 

Another US-based company biting the dust, thousands of jobs lost or in peril due to the business decisions of the top few.

kevjohn

January 05, 2012 at 2:32pm

The "no consumer products to speak of" comment was way off base by the author, Whitwam. They have dozens of products, either manufactured by them or brand licensed from another maker, on the shelves of any big box store you can think of. A few of them actually don't suck. heh

I'm not sure how many of thier products are made here in the States, but I, for one, will not celebrate the loss of more domestic manufacturing jobs. We are digging our own graves here.

Mortal_M

January 05, 2012 at 12:01am

Blame Point and Shoot cameras wit Wi-Fi

big_montana

January 05, 2012 at 6:11am

Am I the only one that likes Kodak cameras, as they just work, have good color reproduction, and are inexpensive? Their most expensive camera is $230, I've never owned a camera whose image stabilization worked as well as my last two Kodak's have. I can take photo's from a moving car and it can stich them together, and the pictures look like they were shot while standing still. I just think Kodak does a bad job of advetising, and people still see them as a film company. not a digital company.

someone87

January 05, 2012 at 5:31am

+1

I agree with you 100%. If you can't make it on your own, close up shop.

Nimrod

January 05, 2012 at 12:48am

Good. This is what should happen to any company that is unwilling to adapt or innovate. This is what should've happened to GM and all of the wall street firms that bet the wrong way and lost. Instead, the government bailed out bad decision makers and archaic business models at the expense of the taxpayers.

BTW, SOPA is Hollywood's answer to an unwillingness to innovate.

QFE

warptek2010

January 04, 2012 at 10:42pm

+100.

You got that right. Nailed every point on the head.

 

MrHasselblad

January 05, 2012 at 5:52am

To date; there are only nine digital cameras made that can match film; and that's a conditional statement - the best digital cameras at any speed versus a film camera at ISO 200. Mediumm format cameras (still a bit pricey - but starting just below 10k) also offer the ability to switch out the digital back for a film one.

Also noting... I'll take an old Pentax ME, Ricoh XR-s (solar), or even a Nikon F. There's plenty of old film cameras out there that (at the time) sold for a merket price of about two hundred - that can run circles around almost any digital camra ever made. In the past one could have a professional outfit for 2k to 3k. Today that barely buys the fuller version of CS Photoshop; or a moderate priced computer.

Sure the convenience of digital is there, but the true quality has gone by the wayside.

warptek2010

January 04, 2012 at 10:45pm

Sure. Many professional photographers and purists still use film. It is superior to digital in many respects but like just about everything else, there's advantages and disadvantages.

big_montana

January 05, 2012 at 6:17am

I do not know were people are getting this Kodak does not offer a product lie. They offer at least 20 different digital cameras in the consumer arena, no tot mention they have professional cameras and film that they produce and sell. Plus they sell their own branded photo printers, digital photo frames, video cameras, scanners, anything imaging related they offer.

someuid

January 04, 2012 at 3:29pm

Don't forget Pan Am!

big_montana

January 05, 2012 at 6:19am

Sears deserves to die, when they do not invest in their stores or product line, and do not add new products. The stores look old, dirty and run down. That's what happens when a venture capital firm buys you out.