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Article: Kodak struggles to find its focus in fast-paced digital photography era
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- AP Worldstream
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- July 25, 2003
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Dateline: ROCHESTER, New York
First, it was new competition. Then new technology. Now, analysts
believe struggling Eastman Kodak Co. has some two to three years to
find a place in the world of digital photography.
If not, the venerable pioneer of mass-market picture-taking, which
grew fat in the 20th century off high-margin, silver-halide film packaged
in ubiquitous yellow boxes, could begin to fade into history.
The chemical-photography businesses that turned Kodak into an American
icon with one of the most recognizable brand names on Earth have been
quietly on the wane for a decade _ but their decline is suddenly picking
up speed as filmless digital cameras become ...