Kodak killing SLR/c and SLR/n digital SLRs
By Peter Rojas 
posted June 1st 2005 6:11AM
posted June 1st 2005 6:11AM
The official announcement wasn't supposed to hit until Friday, but apparently Kodak is killing off both of their high-end 14 megapixel digital SLR cameras, the SLR/c and the SLR/n (they'll continue to support current owners for at least three more years). Doesn't necessarily mean the end for digital SLRs at Kodak, but it's not exactly encouraging, either, especially when they're making so much money selling consumer-grade cameras.
Does this mean I'll be able to pick one up for dirt cheap? I hope so!
Kodak should stay in the analog business, nobody needs them in the digital world. :D
Kodak is the king of consumer digi cam sales in the USA (dpreview), but they can't seem to compete with Canon and Nikon in the dSLR world it seems. On the high end their cameras really got some great reviews, but the market must be really small there.
Yeah, this was a long time coming. With Kodak VAR'ing Nikon and Canon bodies, it was just a matter of time.
Maybe they just decided to switch production to the other kind of sensor. (I think it's called foveon.)
They are nikon and canon bodies, arent they? How can they possibly compete when they take a F80/N80 body and stuff it full of components for a digicam? They can't with nikon and canon selling em so cheaply.
Kodak has great name recognition amongst the general public, but most professional photographers will go for Canon or Nikon. It's smart for them to stop wasting money on a target group that will not buy there cameras and focus on the general public who don't know much about digital cameras and will feel safe buying the Kodak name.
Kodak developed the digital camera back. If it wasn't for them Nikon and Canon would SOL.
in 1990 my next door neighbor worked for Kodak. He was a tester. He has this Nikon camera with this huge prototype back on it hooked up to an external powersupply/HDD. He would take the thing to auto races to test the shutter speeds so the bennie hats(his words) back in Rodchester could make it better.
When I first saw the thing I was all "WTF is that" Its a digital camera. A who what?
I believe they still own the patents on the CCD.
If it wasn't for Kodak...
Even if they were selling very, very few of these, it's sometimes a big mistake for a company to drop it's top-end product. Dodge doesn't sell a whole lot of Vipers - the market for that kind of car isn't that big, but it gets a lot of attention and helps them build the overall brand.