How has the journey been from inventing the first digital camera to the present day innovations at Kodak?
A lot of innovation has taken place at Kodak in the last 30 years. We have been the pioneers in several technologies in photography. No matter who makes which digital camera you use today, the camera uses a lot of IP (intellectual property) that Kodak first created. Kodak invented the first megapixel sensor. The first colour filter tray was from Kodak. Image compression up to the JPEG standard and, of course, the first digital camera was also developed at the Kodak Labs. One of our cameras was used in the space shuttle mission in the United States in 1991. We also set up the first photo kiosk in 1994. What is the internal process by which Kodak keeps itself on the cutting edge of innovation? We aligned our developments with the computer rather than television, as we realised that computers will be the centre of photography and the television will not be good enough. We went on to develop the high resolution camera in 1997, a point and shoot sub-$1,000, 8 megapixel consumer camera. We l
