thankful for a free marketplace.
Since you asked, I will tell you what I saw as I began working as a contractor for Fuji Film North America. I began this job in 2002 after Fuji won a huge contract with Walgreens drug stores in the USA and Fuji has always had the Walmart business locked up. This is for the photo mini labs aka the one hour photo processing equipment in stores. At the time that I started, one hour photo labs kept track of how much production they had by roll count. As in rolls of film processed. Kodak’s business model relied heavily on sales of film, photo processing chemicals and photo paper (the actual photo you would take home with you) for profits. That was where the big money was. Similar to the business model of King C Gillette, sell razors cheap and make profits from blade sales.
About that time, digital cameras began to appear in the hands of consumers in greater and greater numbers. Fuji, since they made their own mini labs, created a method to digitize images from rolls of film along with kiosks that consumers could use to make prints from their digital cameras and this was a smart forward thinking leap in the photo industry. Kodak, on the other hand was very slow to adapt to the digital photo revolution. They didn’t manufacture their own photo processing equipment as there isn’t much profit in it. They sold their chemicals and photo paper to stores using Gretag, Konica and other processing labs. Kodak couldn’t adapt but Fuji could as they made their own equipment. Stores were quick to grasp that customers were switching to digital cameras and they wanted processing labs that could deliver. Processing chemicals and photo paper sales went to Fuji and Kodak lost out. The trend continued and by 2010 sales of film cameras and photo film had plummeted drastically. Kodak did begin to make some digital cameras but they were very late to the dance.
Kodak’s inability to innovate and their failure to adapt to a new business model basically doomed one of the most iconic companies in the world.
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.Fuji still has a presence in the digital camera field but that market has been shrinking for years. Canon and Nikon dominate the SLR camera market and their large line up of camera lenses for both consumers and professionals make it difficult for Fuji to compete. Photographers invest in lenses and after you build up a substantial investment in lenses you tend to stick with that brand. You might invest in a newer camera body but you want one that is compatible with your lenses. I used to drool over some of Canon’s top end “L” professional telephoto lenses. Those are the big white lenses you see photographers use at sporting events. I think some can set you back close to $10,000.
i tried these on the private regions, absolutely rubbish lol
ah you got to live a little loolIs it just me or does the idea of “trying” something on your private regions just intrinsically seem like a very bad idea ?