thankful for a free marketplace.
So much for a Kodak moment eh!!!
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Great summary! Sad to see an iconic company implode due to lack of innovation!
Fuji’s x pro series is getting a lot of attention these days. Also their film still sells really well in the local stores here.
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They had plenty of innovation. They had digital way back in 1984 when I bought some for use with imaging circuit boards on robotic lines at IBM. They had the first commercial DSLR as well. And, plenty of models mostly based on Nikon and Canon film bodies they bought. Even digital backs for many other cameras.
When Nikon and Canon decided to get in on the act on their own, Kodak kept on for a while. But, what happened is the digital began eroding the film sales and Kodak brass decided the main reason was their own digital SLR division. Of course, they were wrong on that point. It wasn't Kodak's own doing the damage.
I am still using a Pentax medium format with a Kodak imager chip in it. But, that was about the last, if not the last, to be used in a commercial camera. All that's left are specialty imagers for industrial and scientific use. Ironically, what Kodak began making digital imagers for in the first place.
Stan
They had plenty of innovation. They had digital way back in 1984 when I bought some for use with imaging circuit boards on robotic lines at IBM. They had the first commercial DSLR as well. And, plenty of models mostly based on Nikon and Canon film bodies they bought. Even digital backs for many other cameras.
When Nikon and Canon decided to get in on the act on their own, Kodak kept on for a while. But, what happened is the digital began eroding the film sales and Kodak brass decided the main reason was their own digital SLR division. Of course, they were wrong on that point. It wasn't Kodak's own doing the damage.
I am still using a Pentax medium format with a Kodak imager chip in it. But, that was about the last, if not the last, to be used in a commercial camera. All that's left are specialty imagers for industrial and scientific use. Ironically, what Kodak began making digital imagers for in the first place.
Stan
Kodak's business model was immovably imbedded in their film DNA. It's hard to get out of the buggy-whip business when you can't imagine a world without horses. Tom Watson, IBM's president in 1943, famously predicted "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." The true visionaries are often, maybe usually, not at the top. And sometimes the visionary gets too far in front of his/her own headlights - a la French Realist Paul Delaroche, who declared in 1840 on seeing his first daguerreotype "Painting is dead." Pablo Picasso would beg to differ. The glass, indeed, is often cloudy....
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i tried these on the private regions, absolutely rubbish lol
Is it just me or does the idea of “trying” something on your private regions just intrinsically seem like a very bad idea ?
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Back to the original question -who makes theses razors for Kodak? All I can find on the internet is that they are made from Swedish steel?
So who are the Swedish razor blade manufacturers?
So who are the Swedish razor blade manufacturers?
First digital camera made by an engineer at Kodak, Steven Sasson, in 1975:
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I remember seeing advertisements in train stations in NYC for inkjet printers back in the 1970s. My understanding is Xerox invented it. If you were around back then, you probably received junk mail with your address printed by inkjet.
Xerox also invented laser printing, and much of what we take for granted in modern computing, primarily at Xerox Parc. Steve Jobs toured Xerox Parc and used much of what he saw there in Apple products. Ever see a Xerox Alto? Where is Xerox now?
www.parc.com
Will Xerox follow Kodak's lead into the disposable razor gold mine? That would not be wise.
The razor industry, especially the disposable cartridge portion, could go the way of film, one day, sort of. How much profit is there in disposable razors that last two or three months? With titanium, and blade/coatings of the future, blades could last too darn long. And how much profit is there in a can of shaving mousse?
I don't think double edge razors will disappear any time soon. They are still the cheapest way to shave for billions of people around the world. But there is no way to predict what changes in blade materials and manufacturing techniques lie in the future. An inexpensive way to make ideally sharp blades would be interesting. Laser sharpening? 3D razor printing? Molded polymer blades? Or simply a new stamping technique?
How about a home razor laser sharpener?
My bet is on super-gluing a single ultra-sharp edge strip less than a millimeter wide to a non-metal blade that is secured rigidly within a razor head. Or have they already almost done that with the BIC Sensitive single blade?
But I think a future system might use a non-metal blade-edge material and sharpening system, perhaps a harder form of glass.
It reminds me, however, of "The Man in the White Suit." Sometimes great ideas don't pan out in the end.
BTW, professional photographers knew, long before the digital demise of Kodak, that Fuji and Ilford were making better film. Kodak cut corners on quality to increase profits. Sound familiar?
It does give cause for hope that some of today's corporate monstrosities might one day join the dinosaurs, or at least resort to making disposable razors.
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I remember seeing advertisements in train stations in NYC for inkjet printers back in the 1970s. My understanding is Xerox invented it. If you were around back then, you probably received junk mail with your address printed by inkjet.
Xerox also invented laser printing, and much of what we take for granted in modern computing, primarily at Xerox Parc. Steve Jobs toured Xerox Parc and used much of what he saw there in Apple products. Ever see a Xerox Alto? Where is Xerox now?
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Will Xerox follow Kodak's lead into the disposable razor gold mine? That would not be wise.
The razor industry, especially the disposable cartridge portion, could go the way of film, one day, sort of. How much profit is there in disposable razors that last two or three months? With titanium, and blade/coatings of the future, blades could last too darn long. And how much profit is there in a can of shaving mousse?
I don't think double edge razors will disappear any time soon. They are still the cheapest way to shave for billions of people around the world. But there is no way to predict what changes in blade materials and manufacturing techniques lie in the future. An inexpensive way to make ideally sharp blades would be interesting. Laser sharpening? 3D razor printing? Molded polymer blades? Or simply a new stamping technique?
How about a home razor laser sharpener?
My bet is on super-gluing a single ultra-sharp edge strip less than a millimeter wide to a non-metal blade that is secured rigidly within a razor head. Or have they already almost done that with the BIC Sensitive single blade?
But I think a future system might use a non-metal blade-edge material and sharpening system, perhaps a harder form of glass.
It reminds me, however, of "The Man in the White Suit." Sometimes great ideas don't pan out in the end.
BTW, professional photographers knew, long before the digital demise of Kodak, that Fuji and Ilford were making better film. Kodak cut corners on quality to increase profits. Sound familiar?
It does give cause for hope that some of today's corporate monstrosities might one day join the dinosaurs, or at least resort to making disposable razors.
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