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Subject: [Leica] Kodak in trouble? What does this mean for Leica?
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:31:56 -0500
References: <63C28AFB-46A8-4F3A-ABD1-D58A638C0660@mac.com> <CAH1UNJ3MuAULqOM4XCar_KPM=k_n+YQ36_5AaeiwQZtaGpj4Fg@mail.gmail.com> <CAF8hL-ENhKtz=s_iC_+RJenv7YN30mTvQyRTa7B-pNbszDLKTA@mail.gmail.com> <8C11F0DB-3430-42A3-8403-244846A4E260@frozenlight.eu>
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at
frozenlight.eu>wrote:
> Kodak, unfortunately, is more like Polaroid--unable to cope with a major
> technological shift that rendered its main product commercially unviable
> (at
> least on the scale necessary).
>
My take on that issue is that when there was a major tech shift, it seems
Kodak dropped everything and "me-tooed" the process. That went on with
poloroid and certainly with zerox copiers.
I was taking some courses at Eastman Rochester while they were going through
their Kodak copier phase, and that's about all that was going on in the R&D
side. An entire wing of the building was given over to the program that
lasted only a few years.
--
Regards,
Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana
USA
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