Digital BW, The Print

Kodak first introduced (through acquisition) practical sensor chips
about 25 years ago. The chip replaced video camera tubes, fed the data
into high speed tape (no compact solid state recording back then). 

I saw this equipment in action at a trade show in Las Vegas: high
speed recording cameras designed to document mechanical movements in
machines, explosions, mechanical failures and the like. It was
intended to replace the cameras that burned millions of feet of Kodak
High Speed Recording Film in engineering applications...Kodak may have
been shooting itself in the foot.

That first Kodak-branded chip-type video camera cost only about $10K.  

Deep down, Kodak knew a long time ago that film would die...but they
didn't buy in to that certainty.  Mark Twain said "Faith is believing
something you know isn't true."

The best Kodak news may be the Olympus 4/3 chip. 


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com,
"scott_now_coming" <scott_now_coming@y...> wrote:
> 
> Kodak's into making sensor chips for other companies.
> 
> I think that's where they're going to concentrate their energy.
> 
> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/kodak-iss.shtml
> 
> 
> Scott