Talk:Eastman Kodak
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Pinching of patents seems to have been a feature of George Eastman's career. In 1889 he was trying to overcome curling of a film base when coated with photographic emulsion. He was sent a sample of a patented celluloid varnish by New Jersey clergyman-inventor Hannibal Goodwin which did the job, but Eastman passed it to one of his chemists who 17 days later applied for a patent on a transparent roll film. The rest, as they say, is history. Goodwin's film was later marketed under the name An-sco and he was involved in litigation with Eastman until 1914 when he was awarded $5 million for patent infringement - a tidy sum in those days.
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"determined by over 150,000 continuous measurements in homes around the world and published in peer-reviewed scientific journals over 14 years." - let's just see an actual reference to a journal article, and see a source for the 150,000 measurements claims, shall we? - Ta bu shi da yu 07:13, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
More removed: "which is also confirmed by real-world long-term print displays". Well, that's not exactly Kodak's target market now, is it? And give me a source for this data. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:17, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
References for both these claims were provided with the original text (in fact, one of the references persists--Bugner, et. al.--despite the arbitrary removal of the text). -- User: JonK
Kodak's history
Kodak manufactured roll films, and from 1888, also industrially manufactured cameras such as the Kodak Brownie and later on, the Instamatic, which were designed for everyday causal photography. Simply put, Kodak turned photography from an art into a leisure activity.
Kodachrome color slide films were introduced by Kodak in 1935. It was the quality standard for color film for many years. Kodachrome was manufactured first as 8-mm motion picture film, with the 35mm still camera film introduced one year later. The film was made famous in the Paul Simon song "Momma, Don't Take My Kodachrome Away". Kodak followed Kodachrome with Ektachrome slide film and Kodacolor film for color prints in the 1940s.
In the 1980s, Kodak intorodcued the "decision-free" Kodak Disc system. Due to poor print quality, the system was a failure. Disc film was discontinued in 1997, and Disc processing is no longer available.
After a patent controversy with Polaroid was lost, Kodak exited the instant camera market on January 9, 1986.
As Kodak's film sales declined, Kodak had to make major bsiness adjustments. For instance, in 2004, Kodak closed all of its company-owned wholesale photofinishing laboratories in Germany and the United Kingdom as well as significant number of similar labs in the United States. Likewise, Kodak's worldwide workforce was cut by 25,000 people, primarily in film-based products. In early, 2004 Kodak announced that it would no longer sell 35mm cameras in North America and Western Europe and discontinued production of Advanced Photo System (APS) cameras in order to be able to concentrate in the digital photography market.
[edit] contradiction
The first sentence of the article says that it is a small multinational company. But the third sentence says that it is the world's largest digital camera manufacturer. Then, how can it be small? vedant (talk • contribs) 21:42, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Remove Stub
I think it is long enough to remove the stub status now, and wanted to see if anyone else agreed. ~Linuxerist L / T 06:04, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What do they do?
How about some information on what Kodak does these days? Since print film is a shrinking market I would think they've headed in a new direction. -Rolypolyman 20:28, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
- The still continue to create pictures form people's camers, but also the Kodak kiosk for digital cameras. The make printers and cameras too. Iolakana•T 20:22, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Naming
Who on Earth calls Kodak "Eastman Kodak"? "Look! I got my new Eastman kodak camera!" or "Look! I got my new Kodak camera!" Iolakana•T 20:22, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
