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Not unexpected, they had to lose the film processing work other than large format work for a while, but with everything digital, not much point... With even single use digitals, a few other vendors have it covered, time to give it up..

Hopefully their online storage side stays viable, they make a lot on prints, or at least from my family, I have images on their site going back 11 years at least, Terabytes, i bet.. family events, school events, trips, wanderings... I could be using Apple's space, but they'd charge for it.... too many, but if I go iCloud, I suppose it would be there anyway... But then there's Flickr, or PhotoBucket, or ...


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Another era comes to an end...
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Fri, 10 Feb 12 9:28 AM
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Kodak To Stop Making Cameras

02/09/12

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Picture it: Save for a few disposable point-and-shoots, Kodak is exiting the camera business.

Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday that it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in a move that marks the end of an era for the beleaguered 132-year-old company.

Founded by George Eastman in 1880, Kodak was known all over the world for iconic cameras such as the Brownie and the Instamatic. For the last few decades, however, the Rochester, New York-based company has struggled. It was battered by Japanese competition in the 1980s, and failed to keep pace with the shift from film to digital technology...

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/09/kodak-cameras-bankruptcy_n_1265178.html

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