Oof. The initial media report might actually have caused material (financial) damage to Kodak.

If someone was shopping around for a Kodak product, saw that original article, they likely decided against Kodak. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable buying a product from a company close to bankruptcy - because if anything goes wrong, no warranty, replacement parts, etc..

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kotaKat 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

The problem is the brand dilution that’s already happened has already turned some people off from the brand.

I really don’t know what they were going for approving it on an air purifier.

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akkad33 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's a camera, not a car

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ozgrakkurt 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Cameras can get really expensive, and kodak isn’t the only option. So it is very likely that the situation GP wrote would happen

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Insanity 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That can still be an expensive costing hundreds to thousands of dollars once you add additional lenses etc.

Even hundreds of dollars for a camera is not “throw away money” for a lot of people..

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tjr 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I for one have been known to keep some cameras longer than some cars.

	▲	vladvasiliu 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think it depends on what you do with them. If your living depends on the camera, you're probably not buying Kodak anyway, since in that case you're buying more into a system, which Kodak doesn't have. If you're an amateur, it's likely that it will outlive its warranty anyway, so it doesn't make much of a difference. Also, since there's no "system", grabbing a different one isn't that expensive financially.