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2 of my first 3 digital cameras were kodak. a dc2300? a low end 2mp camera. and a palmpix attachment that connected to my then palm iiix and iiic. both were v
by moylan 15y ago
2 of my first 3 digital cameras were kodak.
a dc2300? a low end 2mp camera. and a palmpix attachment that connected to my then palm iiix and iiic. both were very good cameras and the lenses were better than any of the camera phones i had for a few years. the palmpix especailly for a vga res camera took surprisingly good pics.
i never heard of them trying to put their tech into camera phones. their name and reputation would have helped shift a few phones. a quick check only turns up one model a motorola zn5.
they're also sitting on impressive printing technology. there is still a market for mobile printing for embedded applications. i would love a a5-a6 printer that fitted in my bag to kick out a page every once in a bluemoon.
it would be tragic to see kodak disappear from shops and be nothing but a brand in some larger company.
- ams6110 15y agoI would be surprised if their imaging business didn't survive in some fashion. Maybe spun off or sold off. Their stuff is quite good. Heh. Just did a quick search to check something and looks like this has already happend: http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Image_Sensor_Solutions/Kodak_Image_Sensor_Solutions.htm http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Image_Sensor_Solutions/Kodak_I... Edit: So this is fascinating. The one piece of their business where they had legitimately market-leading tech, they sell off. They must have felt that they couldn't escape the weight of the failure of all the old business lines.
- stan_rogers 15y agoThey were ahead of the game, but Dalsa picked up the high end of the market (Hasselblad and Leaf/PhaseOne) and Sony the low end (Nikon, Pentax -- and their own cameras, of course) over the past couple of years. It'll cost some money to leapfrog them, and if the company doesn't have financial room for an R&D-only business phase...