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Digital cameras

* Many of Kodak's earlier digital cameras were designed and built by Chinon, a Japanese camera manufacturer. In 2004, Kodak Japan acquired Chinon and many of its engineers and designers joined Kodak Japan. In July, 2006, Kodak announced that Flextronics would manufacture and help design its digital cameras.



Film

* Kodak remains to this day the largest supplier of films in the world, for the amateur, professional, and motion picture markets. The company has also diversified into various other imaging-related industries (such as medical imaging films now marketed by Carestream Health), and continues to be a leader in digital photography and imaging, providing consumer and professional digital imaging products and online photo services.



Photo printing

* Kodak is a leading producer of silver halide (AgX) paper used for printing film and digital images. Minilabs located in retail stores and larger central photo lab operations (CLOs) use silver halide paper for photo printing. Kodak is also a leading global manufacturer of photo kiosks which produce "prints in minutes" from digital sources; the company has placed some 80,000 Picture Kiosks in retail locations worldwide.[8] In addition, Kodak markets KODAK Picture CDs and other photo products such as calendars, photo books and photo enlargements through retail partners such as CVS, Walmart and Target and through its Kodak Gallery online service, formerly known as Ofoto.



Film cameras

* On January 13, 2004, Kodak announced it would stop producing traditional film cameras (excluding one-time-use cameras) in the United States, Canada and Western Europe. By the end of 2005, Kodak ceased manufacturing cameras that used the Advanced Photo System. Kodak licensed the manufacture of Kodak branded cameras to Vivitar for two years following (2005-2006). In 2007 it appears that Kodak is not licensing any manufacture of any film camera with the Kodak name in this market. These changes reflect Kodak's focus on growth in the digital markets. Kodak continues to produce film for newer and more popular formats, while it has also discontinued the manufacture of film in older and less popular formats.



Digital picture frames

* Kodak first launched the Kodak Smart Picture Frame on the QVC shopping channel in the fourth quarter of 2000, at a time when the majority of consumers didn't know about or understand this new category. Kodak's Smart Frame was designed by Weave Innovations and licensed to Kodak with an exclusive relationship with Weave's StoryBox online.



Instant cameras

* After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak left the instant camera business on January 9, 1986. The Kodak instant camera included models known as the Kodamatic and the Colorburst.

Polaroid was awarded damages in the patent trial in the amount of US $909,457,567.00, a record at the time. (Polaroid Corp. v. Eastman Kodak Co., U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts, decided October 12, 1990, case no. 76-1634-MA. Published in the U.S. Patent Quarterly as 16 USPQ2d 1481). See also the following cases: Polaroid Corp. v. Eastman Kodak Co., 641 F.Supp. 828 [228 USPQ 305] (D. Mass. 1985), stay denied, 833 F.2d 930 [5 USPQ2d 1080] (Fed. Cir.), aff'd, 789 F.2d 1556 [229 USPQ 561] (Fed. Cir.), cert. denied, 479 U.S. 850 (1986).[11]

Kodak had been the exclusive supplier of negatives for Polaroid cameras from 1963 until 1969, when Polaroid chose to manufacture its own instant film.[12]

Image sensors As part of its move toward higher end products, Kodak announced in September 15, 2006 that the new Leica M8 camera will incorporate Kodak's KAF-10500 image sensor. This is the second recent partnership between Kodak and the German optical manufacturer