I was reading today that Kodak will no longer be making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames. They will instead be focussing on printing!
The full article is at: http://www.news.com.au/business/kodak-to-stop-making-cameras/story-e6frfm1i-1226267309632#ixzz1lw2V2bP5
It’s an amazing development for a company that has been providing cameras for over 100 years and whose name is synonymous with photography. I was really interested to read of Kodak involvement in digital cameras. In 1975, using a new type of electronic sensor invented six years earlier at Bell Labs, a Kodak engineer named Steven Sasson created the first digital camera. It was a toaster-size prototype capturing black-and-white images at a resolution of 0.1 megapixels. This just blows my mind! Firstly, contemplating the development that cameras have made over the last 35 years and secondly, that Kodak didn’t capitalise on this development. I don’t feel too sorry for them because they do own the patents, so they get about half a billion per annum from them.
The article reminded me how very grateful I am for my cameras. I enjoy taking photographs - some might say it is an obsession – and I love mucking around with the end results (both on screen and in printed form).
Oh, and don’t forget that a digital image is not a photograph until it is printed. So everyone should make sure that favourite images are printed!
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