How Canon caught the digital wave and Kodak did not
I can remember getting my first camera as a child. It was a Kodak of course because that’s how all things were back then. We made all of our cameras in America and things were not imported from overseas very often. But the camera industry has changed a great deal. Back then the only movie cameras were super eights. A true real to Reel movie camera that you had to shoot and then take to be developed. Thing started to change when can and I can’t join the picture to start billing cameras in the Far East.Then things got even wackier as things move to digital. Again Canon kept pace with the changing environment in the camera industry. Canister to make digital cameras and started to gain market share. Many of the Japanese are makers did the same, but Kodak did not. For some reason could I could not believe that cameras would go completely digital. They were completely wrong on this and companies like Canon really cleaned up. Along with the digital transformation from film to digital memory, a movie cameras that were also able to write digitally. I remember buying a can digital movie camera so I could shoot the recitals and soccer into my children. I don’t see us going back to film at this point.