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Part 1: the internet is having a kodak moment – Chris Rempel's Blog

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For over a hundred years, Kodak held a near-monopoly on the manufacture of camera film & photo production. And if Canon, Sony & Pentax were the proverbial car companies of photography, then Kodak was the world’s largest oil producer – by a wide margin.

Kodak’s demise is the stuff of legend; a modern-day Shakespearean tragedy… For over a hundred years, Kodak held a near-monopoly on the manufacture of camera film & photo production. And if Canon, Sony & Pentax were the proverbial car companies of photography, then Kodak was the world’s largest oil producer – by a wide margin. But just as how Tesla rapidly went from “futuristic fad” to the world’s most valuable automaker in just 10 years – the photography industry was similarly paradigm-shifted by the rise of digital cameras, and then smartphones

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