Kodak Shares Drop 25%

[Roger Hicks]

All our days are numbered. I don't think Kodak's problems tell us very much about the health of the film market at all. You need to delve deeper to understand what has gone wrong at Kodak.

Failing to appoint Carl Kohrt as CEO in about 1999-2000 was arguably the turning point. Instead of a scientist/engineer, they appointed a salesman, with more salesmen afterwards.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Sparrow]

Failing to appoint Carl Kohrt as CEO in about 1999-2000 was arguably the turning point. Instead of a scientist/engineer, they appointed a salesman, with more salesmen afterwards.

Cheers,

R.

At one point in the mid 90s the entire board of Courtaulds Textiles were accountants ... well, save for the Finance Director, naturally

 

[btgc]

Yeah right, if Leica would buy the film devision a roll of Leica Tr-X would cost $25........

You mean, for 12exp roll? 😛

 

[Jamie123]

Yeah right, if Leica would buy the film devision a roll of Leica Tr-X would cost $25........

But then again, it would come with a shiny red dot 😉

 

[olleorama]

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the film division of Kodak was the one division that was going best, i.e. loosing the least amount of money.

It was the digital imaging division that was the biggest black hole for the once huge company.

Feel free to check it up, I'm over my ears at work.

 

[NIKON KIU]

Give it a couple of more months, they will go bankrupt.
The writings on the wall.

 

[caycep]

the problem with making sensors is that it's highly dependent on semiconductor expertise....which is all in taiwan and korea at the moment. Probably headed to Shenzhen give or take 5 years.

A strategic partnership with Intel and their 22 nanometer chip fabs expertise (the only significant American expertise left - I think AMD is struggling in this respect) would be really nice for developing new CMOS/CCD chips that are competitive with Asia. Could they also compete with photographic displays?

How does their film line look like? Maybe worthwhile to streamline Apple style into just Tri-X, Portra, and a slide film, and make the developer process easy for the chemistry-challenged. I agree this should be self sustaining some how.

I think they really need someone who is both good in management AND engineering, where most people are either good in one and not the other.

Why couldn't this be good news for once, i.e. "used summilux prices drop 25%"? :/