overexposure due to low dpi?

[Robert Barnett]

I mean no offense to anyone that does like Kodak. But, in my opinion Kodak has really lost a lot of their luster. Their cameras aren't that good and neither is there photo printing. Their hayday was in the world of film. They have had a very hard time with digital. Shame reallly one of the founding fathers of photography shouldn't end up this way.

Robert

[tjsnaps]

Robert Barnett wrote:

I mean no offense to anyone that does like Kodak. But, in my opinion Kodak has really lost a lot of their luster. Their cameras aren't that good and neither is there photo printing. Their hayday was in the world of film. They have had a very hard time with digital. Shame reallly one of the founding fathers of photography shouldn't end up this way.

Robert

It is a shame indeed. Kodak is a photographic and an American icon. I must admit I used fuji film for most of my picture taking but stuck with Kodak for B&W and color people pictures.

I read an article about Kodak in the 80's. The police had found a car at the bottom of a lake. The car and driver had disappeared some ten year earlier on a stormy day. Apparently the driver had lost control of the car and plunged into the lake. It was one of the runners that takes the film from the drug stores to the Kodak lab. Kodak took the ten year old water logged film that was in the trunk processed it the best they could and made prints. Then hired private detectives to find the curent whereabouts of the people it belonged too so they could deliver the prints. Now that's dedication.
TJ

[Robert Barnett]

No doubt about it for film Kodak was the top. They had some flake ideas like the disc camera. Nice concept but a nightmare for people that want to scan the negatives to save now.

But, when they started using plastic lenses in their digital cameras (a practice that I believe they have moved away from) and other less than impressive digital camera releases they just kind of sunk themselves.

What I think Kodak should have done was go full in to disposible or one time use digital cameras with many options. A wide panoramic one, an underwater one, etc. With each camera came a mailer that you dropped it in to and sent off and you got back your prints and a disc with digital files. I think they could have made a very good market for this. The film dispossible's are still quite handy to have. Digital versions with a wide selection of uses would be just as useful. They could easily recycle the mailed in cameras.

Oh, well. Like what Photoshop did to darkroom support companies (chemicals, paper, equipment, etc.) digital cameras have done to Kodak and other companies. I don't think Fuji does all that well in the digital camera arena either. They seem to be more a nitch than a real contender. Again a shame. I hate to see multi-decade old companies loose it.

Robert