The Kodak digital camera models that we see in the market today are the result of decades-long research and development, although the popular belief is that the company came in rather late in the digital camera business.  This company, which was founded by George Eastman who invented the first cameras with rolled films, came out with the first digital camera prototype as early as the 1980s.  This product was first marketed in 1990. Part of the reason for the misimpression that Kodak was a late entrance in the digital camera market was that its early digital cameras were not pushed to their fullest commercially, probably because of corporate executives’ thinking that their market for analog cameras is where the action is, and that they are doing great in this respect.  Continue Reading ->