Kodak

The Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational corporation based in Rochester, New York, which produces photographic materials and equipment. Kodak produces camera equipment and also photography film and has for more than a century. According to the company website, their goal and motto is to make photography and cameras "as easy to use as a pencil."http://www.kodak.com/global/en/corp/historyOfKodak/historyIntro.jhtml As technology as progressed, Kodak has moved gradually towards developing more digital photography technology. This includes making more digital cameras as well as digital photo printers and software.

As of the close of business on December 30, 2010 the last Kodachrome processing shop in the world, Dwayne's Photo in Parsons Kansas, stopped accepting new orders.http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/gallery-kodachrome-is-dead-long-live-kodachrome/68696/ Kodak announced, in June of 2009, that it would no longer be manufacturing Kodachrome film.http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/products/films/catalog/kodachrome64ProfessionalFilmPKR.jhtml As a result of declining customer demand, over time, Dwayne's Photo had remained the only place on the planet that still developed the film, which was introduced in 1935 and had become the first successful commercial color film. Orders at Dwayne's had dropped to about 700 rolls each day; not enough to make the film sustainable by its manufacturer.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/26/sunday/main7185884.shtml

One of Kodak's forays into new technology has been in 3D movies and 3D television. In September of 2010, Kodak stated that a new technology, called the Kodak Laser Projection Technology system, would allow viewers to watch 3D movies in theaters without having to wear 3D glasses.http://www.dcinematoday.com/dc/PR.aspx?newsID=2031 Kodak has stated that the technology will be a "game-changer" within the genre.http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/kodak-to-brighten-3d-movies_1166958 This may also have an effect on 3D television, which is the newest market of 3D technology.

Kodak was founded by George Eastman and Henry Strong.http://www.kodak.com:80/global/en/corp/historyOfKodak/eastmanTheMan.jhtml?pq-path=2217/2687/2689 The company name is an anagram that Eastman and his mother came up with because the name was short, hard to mispronounce, and did not resemble anything else and could only be associated with this product.http://www.kodak.com/global/en/corp/historyOfKodak/evolutionBrandLogo.jhtml The film that the company produced, in the early years, replaced what was then the existing photographic process of using glass plates to develop images. http://www.kodak.com/global/en/corp/historyOfKodak/eastmanTheMan.jhtml?pq-path=2689&pq-locale=en_US The company's first camera was introduced in 1888 along with the slogan, "You press the button, we do the rest". Kodak had begun to make photography more accessible to people. Kodak, a multinational company, has focused in more recent times on digital imaging. Kodak's top industry competitors include Canon, Fuji and Sony. http://www.hoovers.com/company/Eastman_Kodak_Company/rfhiff-1.html

Kodak Timeline

• 1888 Foundedhttp://www.kodak.com:80/global/en/corp/historyOfKodak/2000.jhtml?pq-path=2217/2687/2695/2704
• 1900 Introduced the "Brownie" camera http://www.hoovers.com/company/Eastman_Kodak_Company/rfhiff-1.html
• 1928 16mm KODAKCOLOR motion picture film introduced to the public.
• 1961 Kodachrome II film introduced. Kodak also introduces the Kodak Carousel projector.http://www.kodak.com:80/global/en/corp/historyOfKodak/2000.jhtml?pq-path=2217/2687/2695/2704
• 1963 Kodak Instamatic camera hits the market.http://www.kodak.com:80/global/en/corp/historyOfKodak/2000.jhtml?pq-path=2217/2687/2695/2704
• 1965 Kodak develops the super 8 format.http://www.kodak.com:80/global/en/corp/historyOfKodak/2000.jhtml?pq-path=2217/2687/2695/2704
• 1988 Kodak acquires Sterling Drug Inc, which poised the company to create Qualex Inc in the 1990s to perform photographic processing.http://www.kodak.com:80/global/en/corp/historyOfKodak/2000.jhtml?pq-path=2217/2687/2695/2704
• 2003 Kodak Easyshare printer dock introduced. The Kodak company announces a new digitally oriented business strategy and is organized into five main operations; Commercial Printing, Display & Components, Health Imaging, Digital & Film Imaging Systems, and Commercial Imaging.http://www.kodak.com:80/global/en/corp/historyOfKodak/2000.jhtml?pq-path=2217/2687/2695/2704 http://www.kodak.com:80/global/en/corp/historyOfKodak/2000.jhtml?pq-path=2217/2687/2695/2704
• 2009 Kodak discontinues Kodachrome film production http://www.hoovers.com/company/Eastman_Kodak_Company/rfhiff-1.html

• Canon
• Fuji
• Sony http://www.hoovers.com/company/Eastman_Kodak_Company/rfhiff-1.html

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