Kodak's long fade to black: "Kodak's long fade to black" is the title of a recent LA Times article about Eastman Kodak Company (see ). It chronicle's the film giant's slow decent into...

plieber

"Kodak's long fade to black" is the title of a recent LA Times article about Eastman Kodak Company (see [http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20111204,0,507980.column]). It chronicle's the film giant's slow decent into oblivion. It certainly is sad to see this once great company a virtual non-player in the industry it created.

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

I prefer Kodak paper & chemistry over Fuji products, for printing my digital images. I hope EK survives a re-focus of purpose.

plieber

Nikonian72 wrote:

I prefer Kodak paper & chemistry over Fuji products, for printing my digital images. I hope EK survives a re-focus of purpose.

I hope so too. However I'm afraid the train has already left the station and Kodak is not aboard.

tsomes Loc: Fargo ND

Having made my living back in the 70's working in a photofinishing lab, I have a lot of memories of Kodak film products and processing products. I am hoping they find a way to survive in this new century.

captken Loc: San Antonio, TX

Yup. There was Kodak and then there were "the other guys." Kodak was the industry standard. This is a classic example of the need to adapt or die.

POVDOV

I can remember TRI X PAN IN 35MM AND 4X5. Their chemicals were the best. I was not a fan of their paper. I used Oriental Seagull for all my work. povdov

pdwoodswood Loc: Lewisville, NC

[quote=plieber]"Kodak's long fade to black" is the title of a recent LA Times article about Eastman Kodak Company (see [http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20111204,0,507980.column . It chronicle's the film giant's slow decent into oblivion. It certainly is sad to see this once great company a virtual non-player in the industry it created.[/quote]

Eastman like many companies including Polaroid failed to recognize or accept that chemical imaging had reached maturity and develop
and market new technologies, in this case Digital Imaging. Older entrenched executives are the last to accept that the market is rapidly changing and the product as he knows it, is fast becoming history. Almost a hundred twenty years is a long time for a technology and product to reach maturity and begin such a rapid decline. kodak continually developed, beginning with dry plate in 1892, many significant "firsts" in chemical imaging. In fact, 1975 saw development of a digital camera and in 1987 Kodak introduced the world's first megapixel, I think 1.4, sensor. So what happened????

arphot Loc: Massachusetts

Now a Kodak moment will be no more.
http://youtu.be/RWHL_4_ia_Y

pdwoodswood Loc: Lewisville, NC

arphot wrote:

Now a Kodak moment will be no more.
http://youtu.be/RWHL_4_ia_Y

Have you not heard? It is now a "Canon Moment"

nyweb2001

I worked at Kodak in the 80's as did my whole family.....we were concentrating on film while the rest of the companies were investing in Digital ! I live not too far from Kodak and can tell you it is now a ghost town ! Sad to say but they won't be around too much longer ! Years ago when you got out of high school, you got a job at Kodak and retired there ! Those days are gone !

arphot Loc: Massachusetts

nyweb2001 wrote:

I worked at Kodak in the 80's as did my whole family.....we were concentrating on film while the rest of the companies were investing in Digital ! I live not too far from Kodak and can tell you it is now a ghost town ! Sad to say but they won't be around too much longer ! Years ago when you got out of high school, you got a job at Kodak and retired there ! Those days are gone !

He exclaimed ;)

arphot Loc: Massachusetts

pdwoodswood wrote:

arphot wrote:

Now a Kodak moment will be no more.
http://youtu.be/RWHL_4_ia_Y

Have you not heard? It is now a "Canon Moment"

I'm on that bus my friend :)

My wife actually had a couple of the Kodak Digital cameras and they were at best, ok. But their software was useless in my opinion. Often duplicating images and taking forever to launch.

pdwoodswood Loc: Lewisville, NC

nyweb2001 wrote:

I worked at Kodak in the 80's as did my whole family.....we were concentrating on film while the rest of the companies were investing in Digital ! I live not too far from Kodak and can tell you it is now a ghost town ! Sad to say but they won't be around too much longer ! Years ago when you got out of high school, you got a job at Kodak and retired there ! Those days are gone !

The company I retired from supplied many packaging components to both Kodak and Polaroid. I agree it is sad to see the vacant factories or with Polaroid the vacant landscaped campus of the Polaroid complex.

sinatraman Loc: Vero Beach Florida, Earth,alpha quaudrant

the world's first production dslr was a combination of kodak and nikon. it had a cable from the camera that attached to somsize of a small vcr. it was produced for upi and ap. Kodak makes sensors to this day. Unfortanetly they failed to recognize how fast digital would take off, and just like poloroid, almost went out of business because of it. Now be very quiet, or you'll wake up one of this sites film fanatics (could teach al-qudea a thing or too about fanatiscism) and they will still insist that film photography is fine and healthy. shh be quite don't want to wake up the dinosaurs.

photosbyhenry Loc: Apple Valley MN

Elvis will always be the "King" of rock and roll, Richard Petty will always be the "King" of NASCAR,and there will always be a "KODAK MOMMENT".