Well, Kodak is a moderately big player in the point and shoot crowd,
but I don't see that their machines are as common as Fuji's. My
hunch used to be that the people who got to a cheap digital disposble
would be the biggest winners, but there was a big article on
pdnonline this week about the sales success of camera phones which
apparently have been outselling cell phones by 2 to 1 during the last
year.
I think that people will hang on to the concept of wanting a 4c6
print for quite a while. They spend oodles at my local Wal*mart
putting their little XDand memory stick cards into the Fuji machine
and selecting "one of each" and now that they can take more pix
because they don't run out of the roll of film, those "ones of each"
are more in total number of prints than it used to be with the film.
But as we move into the first generation which is completely computer
literate, that too will change.
It certainly will be interesting to see whether Kodak falls into the
Polaroid void or not. Industry prognosticators aren't encouraged as
I hear it on the pro sites.
On the other hand, dinosaurs died out, but it wasn't because they
were maladapted for change.
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Emily L. Ferguson
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