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Kodak owned what made digital photography Digital
Posted by Reality (more from Reality) on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:01:47
In Reply to: Kodak had limited leadership in digital photography, Noel, Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:53:09
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The early Nikon and Canon digital cameras were all Kodak's, using Kodak sensors. That went on for almost the entire decade of the 1990's. I repeatedly advised Kodak that in digital photography, the camera is the film; body replacement cycle would be much faster than film bodies. The way to keep having consumers coming back to you for new camera bodies (in order to get the latest digital sensor) is to have a lens system like Nikon and Canon do (at the time neither Nikon nor Canon made their own camera sensors, although Canon had potential from their copier division) . . . therefore go buy Nikon when the opportunity presented itself in the mid-1990's when Nikon's owner Mitsubishi Zaibatsu went through a tough period.
Kodak management refused to cut dividend payout and make the big strategic purchase . . . instead kept floating some silly notion about trying to be the chip/sensor supplier to all camera makers. There's nothing preventing another chip maker from entering what is essentially a relatively hind-bound big feature size semiconductor chip making (in terms of feature size, digital camera sensors were always a couple generations behind the cutting edge computer and memory chips); at the time I thought the likes of NationalSemi, TI, Siemens, and the grand daddy of them all Intel, could all enter the field. Eventually Canon, Sony and Samsung all had successful lines of imaging sensors, and were well adapted to the relatively low margin operational environment in which Kodak could never survive.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Kodak's going down, Siegfried, Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:27:47
- GM=Number one car company in the world, No Snaab, Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:59:42
- VW wants you to wait for the Mann truck sales #s, JohnA
, Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:54:30 - Did American Airline stop flying, Reality, Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:47:05
- got your point, Siegfried, Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:41:01
- Yes, No Snaab, Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:21:14
- ok, Siegfried, Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:27:11
- Re: ok, No Snaab, Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:43:55
- Re:, Siegfried, Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:50:20
- WAR, AdamSAAB2kAero
, Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:58:46- you had plenty recently, Siegfried, Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:53:47
- Wrong on every account, Reality, Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:53:38
- Re: Wrong on every account, dtech, Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:50:52
- Much more to Kodak than cameras and film, Noel, Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:30:21
- Re: Wrong on every account, James, Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:16:21
- Not so very wrong, IMO, 50N40W, Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:03:33
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