My wife has a Kodak that she got or free secondhand. It's a fine camera, but Kodak isn't a brand I'd ever buy new. They are marketed to the very bottom of the market, and frankly, I feel that they aimed at people who are unable to handle plugging in a cable.
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > George Sinos wrote: > >>I see many, many brands of "point & shoot" cameras in my Saturday morning >>class. >> >>One of the things I found interesting was people that owned Kodak >>cameras loved them, but always were kind of apologetic about owning >>the brand. Most of them usually started a question with "this is only >>a Kodak, but..." > > Most news articles have cited the advent of digital photography as > being the beginning of the end for Kodak. I think they started down > their fatal path much earlier, in the late 1950's when they gave up on > marketing "quality" cameras like the Retina and went pretty much > exclusively to the bottom end of the market. This led inevitably to > the decline in brand reputation (of their cameras, not film) and thus > to people apologizing with remarks like "this is only a Kodak, but..." > > Note by contrast how shrewdly Nikon and Canon have used their high end > cameras to enhance the reputation of their more affordable gear. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
