kodak
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14 Amateur Photos Taken With The Very First Consumer Camera
Kodak may be “a walking corpse of a company” according to some, but 120 years ago it was the first to offer consumers a chance to try out — and even own — a camera. Introduced in 1888, the Kodak No. 1 was the first camera marketed to average consumers.
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Kodak Is Selling Off Its Film Business
Kodak is really closing out its era as a photographic monolith, opting to sell off its film business entirely. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Kodak will not only sell its print film production, but also its digital imaging kiosks, and the printers and scanners that go with them.
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Fallen Giant Kodak Is Taking Hosting Service Offline. For Good.
After being purchased by the photo-hosting site Shutterfly for $US23.8m last month, one-time giant Kodak will take its Kodak Gallery offline for good, July 2. Users of the image-hosting service were notified today by email, along with a request to please notify Kodak no later than May 28 if they wish to have their photos…
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Why Kodak’s Passing Makes Me Sad
The news that Kodak is pulling out of the hardware market — excepting printers — for good means that, effectively, Kodak is dead. Is this the death knell for the compact digital?