On 15/02/2014 2:40 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote:
On 15 Feb 2014, at 10:21, "Steve Cottrell" <[email protected]> wrote:
Will be of interest to a few on the list...
<http://www.dpreview.com/articles/5988185050/fujfilm-interview-the-only-
way-is-to-keep-innovating>
That sounds like an organisation that knows what it's doing.
B
Fuji has always had a good plan. Their core business is imaging, and
they are very customer driven. Anyone who was into colour photography in
the late 1970s to late 1980s got to watch as Fuji went from being
something that was joked about to the company that smacked down Kodak in
the consumer photography arena. In 1978 I took my first job in a photo
lab, and Fuji was this stuff in a green box that no one would touch. In
1984 I saw my first Fuji minilab, and thought it was a neat toy, but I
admit I failed to see the full potential of it. By 1987 full service
labs were already in trouble, Fuji had boatloads of really good machines
that took care of almost all of the business, and I was running one of them.
Fuji and Noritsu changed the way people got their pictures developed,
and Fuji took away Kodak's lock on the consumer market.
The first electronic viewfinder digital camera that I saw was a Fuji,
though I don't recall the model. That was in 2005, IIRC. I recall it as
being a really bad viewfinder. How quickly things change.
bill
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