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It has been so long since I saw this logo that it truly was a Kodak Moment for me
Oct 24, 2018 5:54 PM
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It has been so long since I saw this logo that it truly was a Kodak Moment for me
ToeKnee419
Kodak CCD sensors still reigns supreme in the scientific community
Shltles
Kolbotn ikkesant? Me and some friends snuck in there a while back, but got chased out by police. It's a training spot now, so they have 1/2
Shltles
Everything from chainsaws and fireaxes to targets and fake bodies 2/2
quincythomasthedisappointing
Eastman
MemeLandLord
Kodak moment.
Maviyakuku
Ling bling.
HsuDoNihm
It *has* been so ling.
ScoundrelPDX
I read a recent article about the downfall of Kodak, and why Fujifilm is still around.
BeerIsProofThatGodLovesUsAndWantsUsToBeHappy
Remember them? Shit, I worked for Kodak.
BallsackHippo
I'm 35 and I can't figure how the Kodak's name had been almost forgotten in like 15 years.
nero4ty2
When you haven’t bought or used a product in that time it tends to fade
dijital101
What? Kodak still exists.
Loctavius
I still own stock.
Ghostory
Click i Member
kobrakaimf
Look up a documentary called Smugtown about Rochester, the original Silicon Valley. Sad all the companies that died there
JimAndPamFromTheOffice
Is... is Kodak not in business anymore???!!!
TouchMyAwesomeButt
I just got Kodak film today, so I think they still are. Though I am new to this, so I know nothing.
BallsackHippo
Eastman Kodak make motion picture films and Kodak Alaris (UK) makes the consumer stuff and both companies work together.
RaspberryJr
Yes they are still in business. Just not as big as they were.
CaffeineManic
It was a Kodak engineer who invented digital cameras.
BallsackHippo
LED screen too
SwaggimirPutin
Everyone's bitching about film no longer existing, how it's all dead etc... Buddy I shoot mostly brand new film on a Canon A-1. I'm 20.
BallsackHippo
Currently, I'm shooting with Ilford Delta 100, Kodak Tmax 100 and Kodak 5302 safety film.
SwaggimirPutin
New Agfa 200, Kodak 400, Fuji superia Xtra 400, Xp-2, portra 800, etc.Film is still very much alive! There's heaps of new film manufacturers
UserFoundHere
‘Tis be the new logo;)
sachinramani
"I hate that guy" -Eastman probably
NewLifeNewNameNoOneWillFindMeHere
No.
tonymilty
Rochester?
NYCMNWIFL
NY State. Once home to Kodak, Xerox and GE Turbine division.
ProVallone
Yup, me too
sadistic145
I worked for them at Qualex right up till they closed their doors. When you work somewhere that develops anywhere from 80-400k rolls 1/2
sadistic145
of film per night, you see some shit that can't be unseen. 2/2
CanConfirmIt
You really should post something about them.
NZSheeps
So many fingers over the lens.....
sadistic145
Whole rolls of film with someones fat finger in the way or with the camera strap hanging in front of it.
Popnfrresh
So many people from Rochester here. Wow. Didnt know we numbered that many.
BallsackHippo
Rochester is known the world over. Every film user knows.
XenapusLeavis
They sold chemicals for awhile. Never stood a chance against Sigma-Aldrich. Way too late to that game.
BallsackHippo
They still sell chemicals - HC110, D76, Xtol, Photo-flo. I bought a bottle of their C41 final rinse, about a weak ago.
TouchMyAwesomeButt
I just received Kodak films today. Wouldn't have known this company a week ago, but I decided on trying a new hobby
BallsackHippo
King of the photographic industry for a 100 years. They invented the first consumer camera "the Brownie" ancestor to all selfies.
Fejerro
And Bill Cosby was their spokesperson.
BallsackHippo
Dude...we've been conned, all of us, for decades. Just don't mention his name anymore.
Seeker61
And give Woody Allen the same treatment
PolarAntonyms
Right? He was as my “ideal dad” as a kid in the 80s. Thanks for repeating that dad disappointment, Bill.
BallsackHippo
We still have Mr.Rogers. Thank God.
PolarAntonyms
Thank god
Rubuck
In my dialect of dutch, we use kodak as the word for camera!
TheSadCafe
That’s cool!
BallsackHippo
French Canadian here, we do the same :-)
Saiint
Remember Kodak? They still exist, what?
reddenbocker
Kodachrome! You give us the nice, bright colors, you give us the greens of summer, you make us think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!
reddenbocker
I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph, so mama please don't take my Kodachrome away!
BallsackHippo
When they discontinued Kodachrome (2009) it was really sad. We'll never see its like again :-(
TheThirdBird
My dad worked for Fuji Film for like 30 years and then digital cameras came out. Needless to say he had to retire.
BallsackHippo
Fuji is still in the film business but I think they're look at the exit. Recently, they discontinued Acros 100 which was a best seller : /
TheThirdBird
Yeah they still are and offered him to move again but my dad was getting older and dealing with health issues from Vietnam.
redrumpmurt
From Rochester so yeah I remember, really sad
NotThatPrivate
Yep, my Dad worked for Xerox. Friends Dad worked for Kodak. Also, I do *not* miss Rochester winters
LadySasquatch
My grandma was from Rochester and it was her first job.
brothersgottahug
Roch here too! It’s very sad what’s happening to Bausch and Lomb, Xerox and Kodak.
ProVallone
I'm also from Rochester. Can confirm
WaltLeach
From Rochester too
rbird
I’m a Rochesterian as well!
redrumpmurt
Brighton
KodiakSamurai
Just sold my house there and finally gtfo of town.
redrumpmurt
Good for you
redrumpmurt
How could you be so dumb to not invest in digital
Ancientmariner52
Same as AGFA, Ansco, GAF, Fuji. Their profit came from film sales, not cameras.
PaulTomblin
Very simple: management bonuses were based on this quarter’s profit. Disincentives for long range planning and R&D.
thekeyislost
There are dozens of us! Dozens! So where's y'all's favorite coffee place
redrumpmurt
Java’s
kobrakaimf
Is Acme Pizza still good? Haven’t been in years.
iamnowhere
Is it on main Street? I visited your city in the summer and had pizza there, it was great
kobrakaimf
Monroe Ave
mrsbennetsnerves
Most people from Rochester are. It’s the lack of sunlight. Source: RIT grad
Thatknifeguy
RIT grad here, it's so true. Except parents weekends. No matter what, it was sunny and warm, even in January.
AlpineCecco
Between the lack of sunshine and the wind tunnels down the quarter mile we were all sad.
SlickerThanNick
CET grad... I spent days in the basement of bldg 7
Thatknifeguy
I lived in bldg 7, but on the third floor. Many fun late nights there
bippityboppitybuttsex
Fun Fact: Kodak actually invented the digital camera but didn't exploit it
jayelkay552
The guy actually did it twice, making the resolution much better the second time around.
Plastik
They actually canned it to protect their film business
BallsackHippo
Interesting fact: Early Nikon & Canon dSLRs were made in partnership with Kodak.
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
Yep, no sympathy lol. They had a decade or two to adapt and failed.
CaptainBrad
The digital cameras were like 0.2 megapixels back then.
slowmotioncoco
I have a Sony Mavik. First consumer dig. Takes 3.5" floppies and shoots 640x480
Cheomesh
I, too, watch Company Man.
Snooj
My first digital camera was a Kodak. They didn't think it would ever be able to replace film cameras. Bad bet.
bacross
And then Kodak spent decades suing every other mfg of didicams for ip.
TheBurritoConfederacy
It's sad. I've heard Kodak actually gave a shit about their employees, even their janitors. Failure to adapt doomed them.
BeaveIt2Leaver
Gave a shit during good times. When Perez was CEO I served him at a local country club while my family was laid off/let go. He was a cancer
TheBurritoConfederacy
Oh yes I definitely mean before him.
BeaveIt2Leaver
No problem spending $100s a night so his kid could put ketchup on filet but couldn't be bothered by his employees.
AlwaysFavoriteAsian
And that was the fall of Rochester, NY. Went to school there - they still talk about the days of Kodak.
excepttheoneswhoaredead
but now you got datto
VonSnootingham
Went to Rochester Institute of Technology. Can confirm.
Snooj
RIT itself seems to be doing well, though. That was one campus we recently toured for my kid. So nice that I wanted to go back to college.
Coonga
Born and raised there before I moved during college, can confirm
bippityboppitybuttsex
I went to Alfred in the 80s... yeah.
TheTruth1
Ayyyyyy. Hornell here.
bippityboppitybuttsex
Eak. I used to see NYC Subway cars on flatbeds being driven on R17 to the rail maintenance there...
OdinYggd
I don't miss that place one bit. By 2005 the mighty had falle.
MeetMyCuteQuotaNow
I have family in Rochester. Many of them talk about their days working at Kodak
TheOtterGuy
They have the OG in the Kodek House, it's pretty awesome to see.
TheOtterGuy
Kodak geez.
EdwardLongshanks
Instead, Kodak bet on this piece of shit: https://youtu.be/O6uTCSfaXVo
QuantumBits
I had one of those as a kid/teenager. Absolutely loved it because it wasn't like other cameras.
Seeker61
They lost respect for their customers
Cheomesh
I think my aunt had one of those, come to think.
Vulspyr
Were they really that bad?
OneArmedAlbinoBandit
They were very similar to 110 cameras. Very small negative= very shitty image
TMP5
now i want a DISC CAMERA!
bippityboppitybuttsex
I think i got one of those for Christmas when I was 11
Machinistjesus
Wow Mr rich over here. My parents couldn't even afford their own camera when I was eleven
bippityboppitybuttsex
Considering you could only get film for it for like an hour, we were more Mr Stupid.
Surbies
Thanks for this:
MarcUK
That disc only has 15 photo slots, why did they think it would be better than a roll of film that holds 36?
Cheomesh
Other camera features, perhaps, but who knows.
BetelgeuseTheStar
They thought they could get people hooked to their proprietary disks and make bank. They bet wrong.
CountSonny
It worked for Sony and Apple.
BetelgeuseTheStar
They produced a superior product. The disc cameras were crappy and the smaller film format made for lousy quality prints compared to 35 mm.
TheGhostofLouReed
I had, and could still probably dig out of the garage somewhere, one of those pieces of dogshit. Dare me & I just might go take a pic of it.
Goldstein1984
Deliver!
SergeiBoobtitsky
I double dare you...
Vulspyr
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dilithiumminesofrurapenthe
Cheomesh
What made it shit? I've never used one.
EdwardLongshanks
The film is so tiny that when you enlarged the image for standard print sizes (3.5x5 or 4x6), you got a grainy print. I'm sure there's more
Cheomesh
Ah, yeah, that'd be an issue.
RufusTheNakedMoleRat
I TRIPLE DOG DARE YOU
TheGhostofLouReed
That's a breach of etiquette right there...
IUpvoteLOTRMemes
I dare you...
TheGhostofLouReed
Fine. I shall deliver this evening after work...
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blueKD
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12Badgers2MushroomsAndASnake
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CPTAWK
You better deliver
ElbowDeepInJeremyClarkson
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zozororo
"Digital cameras will never take off, people will always want to use film"
LumberpunkCyberjack
The majority of mainstream films are still filmed with film. Source: my Film Prod. lecturer.
middlehead
They're half right, there will always be people who want to use film. Just not enough of them.
ChilupaBatman
So less than half?
CumsInPies
Just a bit.
SirSkellingtonBonerLord
They simply overestimated the amount of hipsters in the future.
BallsackHippo
We weren't hipsters, everyone was using films. I still do.
SirSkellingtonBonerLord
that's not what i ment
Cheomesh
Well, I had some of the early digital cameras and they were pretty shit.
boethius
It's hard to be innovative when you utterly dominate a market. Kodak, Blockbuster, newspapers, retail, etc. are all leading examples.
BallsackHippo
Sears
hifive2wifei
Only because they vest so much ego in what they did that they can never do it again.
Mediathug
And then there’s Apple.
onychoprion
Newspapers ‘innovating’ to retain market share is partly whats killing media and accountability.
boethius
Yea not sure what the path forward is but relying on me to turn my ad blocker off is not the way.
override367
im not sure of a solution other than public funded news... i mean bbc and npr do better than most of them for sure
boethius
Suspect most journalists will just become freelance and will sell their work directly. Guessing there's already marketplaces.
FarkasMacTavish
Yeah, and look how unbiased the BBC is. :V
Shamorza
How could they not predict that? When I saw an early digital camera in late 90s I was certain analog cameras will go the way of the dodo.
mksu
I mean, there are people that thought the internet would just be a fad.
boethius
Poor, non-visionary leadership from executives to board members. Hubris and insular tunnel vision. Lots of reasons.
Cheomesh
Late 90s? So nearly 30 years after they developed theirs?
THRAWN18
This shit is literally taught in case studies in graduate schools for MBAs. It's too fucking impossible to explain in detail
boethius
Yup. "How to destroy your company from within in 10 easy steps" or some such.
THRAWN18
Hind sight is 20/20. But aside from that, think about all the failed technologies out there. Laser disc. Beta. Shit we see in magazine ads
THRAWN18
Short answer is they don't want to change or innovate. Outside companies disrupt and destroy them.
THRAWN18
We probably won't live to see it but some day Amazon may fail, Facebook, Apple, Google...