[Leica] Kodak digital photo lawsuit

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

At least anyone travelling in a steam car:-)

Cheers
Douglas

On 22.12.2010 09:50, philippe.amard at sfr.fr wrote:
> If it is about printing, it makes a little more sense to me.
>
>
> I couldn't see the link between the results (digital files from other 
> companies mainly) being displayed (only) on the net and Kodak who as you 
> state it missed the curve a decade or two ago.
> It would have been as anyone travelling by car having to pay royalties to 
> the heirs of a guy called Cugnot ...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas-Joseph_Cugnot
> Thanks for clarifying it a bit.
> Still Phuzzy Philippe
>
>
> De : "Lawrence Zeitlin "<lrzeitlin at gmail.com>
>
>
> Phillipe writes:
>
> "I would have thought very few (digital) photos have anything to do with
> Kodak at all?"
>
> - - - - -
>
> > From Wikipedia:
>
> "The first recorded attempt at building a digital camera was in 1975 by 
> Steven
> Sasson , an engineer
> at Eastman Kodak.[11]
> [12]It
> used the then-new solid-state CCD image
> sensor  chips
> developed by Fairchild
> Semiconductorin
> 1973.
> [13]  The camera weighed 8
> pounds (3.6 kg), recorded black and white images to a cassette tape, had a
> resolution of 0.01 megapixels (10,000 pixels), and took 23 seconds to
> capture its first image in December 1975."
>
>
> Although Kodak invented the first practical digital camera and sold 
> modified
> Nikons with digital backs in the late 80s and 90s, they completely
> underestimated how rapidly digital photography would replace film
> photography. Kodak felt that film, their cash cow, would dominate the 
> market
> through through 2000 and never made contingency plans for the demise of
> their film operations. They assumed that people would want to see their
> pictures as prints even after digital took hold. Despite Kodak's competence
> in digital photography, they devoted their marketing efforts to print 
> kiosks
> and internet print systems. Hence the broad patent coverage for print
> distribution.
>
> I have several relatives living near Rochester, NY who work as Kodak
> executives. At a family gathering, the wife of one asked me if I would like
> to see pictures of her children. I agreed, expecting that she would pull 
> out
> a stack of prints. Instead she took her digital camera out of her purse and
> treated me to a slide show of 50 pictures on the 3" LCD display. Her
> husband, a Kodak marketing guru, told me that fewer than one out of ten
> digital pictures ever gets printed up.
>
> Kodak lost a big patent suit when the Polaroid company claimed that the
> Kodak Instant picture camera infringed on the Land patents. I guess they
> want to recover some of the losses by suing Shutterfly and the other print
> distributors. I can't say I blame them. Kodak stock has dropped tenfold
> since the 80s.
>
> Larry Z (a disgruntled Kodak stockholder)
>
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