Looking at the huge collection of odd camera brands starting around 2001 reminded me of an earlier article linked on HN about Fuji/Kodak transitioning from film

Looking at the huge collection of odd camera brands starting around 2001 reminded me of an earlier article linked on HN about Fuji/Kodak transitioning from film. You can see the point where cheap cameras became increasingly easy for anyone to assemble from commoditized parts in China, which was apparently one of the reasons it became infeasible for Kodak/Fuji to transition their entire film business to digital cameras (it was much easier to produce a decent digital camera than film)