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Hm? I thought Kodak was killed by the demise of demand for film cameras. They didn't have a significant leg in the world of high-end glass lenses or in the w
by lsc 8y ago
Hm? I thought Kodak was killed by the demise of demand for film cameras. They didn't have a significant leg in the world of high-end glass lenses or in the world of smartphones, which are the only, I think, significant photography markets left.
I mean, sure, they could have come up with a digital point-n-click and been okay for a bit longer, but they would still have been stomped by the rise of the cellphone camera destroying the low-end camera market.
The problem was that everything they were good at was no longer required. Really, the best they could have done is started renting their brand to digital camera makers sooner, while they still had a strong brand.
- dagw 8y agoKodak was a very early innovator in digital photography and there was a time when Kodak was the market leader in high end digital cameras. But they didn't want to cannibalize their film market so they killed that business.
- lsc 8y agoMy point is that today the digital camera market on the high end is all about the lens, something that is difficult and that Kodak didn't have a lot of expertise in, Just like the film camera market was. There was a period of time when having a better CCD would get you market share, but that was a relatively short period.