goodbye yellow box...

January 19th, 2012
Its official... http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/19/news/companies/kodak_bankruptcy/
knew it was right around the corner, but sad to see it official.
January 19th, 2012
Wow - that's really sad. Had no idea...
January 19th, 2012
:( sadness. RIP, Kodak. (runs off to buy all the kodak film she can find)
January 19th, 2012
Dislike. :( I'm buying up some film at B&H and hoarding the hell out of it. I'll keep it in my freezer. It's not like there's food in it.
January 19th, 2012
Oooo that is really sad! :(
January 19th, 2012
@cchambers they are not shutting down for the time being at all. Also look at who they owe, WalMart, Target and CVS. It would behoove those stores to keep selling Kodak so they will get their investments back.
January 19th, 2012
This will be our new crack - there will be guys in trenchcoats, standing outside of camera stores, going "I got Portra. You want a Portra?"

January 19th, 2012
@beautifulthing its really sad but your comment and picture did make me smile
January 19th, 2012
:(
January 19th, 2012
Time to start hoarding the Tri-X...
January 19th, 2012
@hmgphotos And clean out B&H.
January 19th, 2012
phew, I dodged a bullet then. My buddy was so sure they would pull out of it. He almost convinced me to purchase loads of Kodak stock for $.18 each. Now I hope he decided not to also.
January 19th, 2012
@beautifulthing
you think it will become hot shit this quick? Polaroid stopped producing in 2008 and in 2010 the film was climbing £25, only £5 more than in 2008. Now it's £40. Maybe 3-4 years before stocks get low - don't you think?

Agfa and Fujifilm still good, I'm not worried, and I don't use any Kodak cameras, most of them are obsolete already on 110, 126 and APS.
January 20th, 2012
I've never been a big fan of Kodak, but that's still terrible to see. =/ I can't imagine how many people this is going to affect, too, that work for the company throughout the world. Goodness.
January 20th, 2012
Yeah its sad to see one of the pioneers leave.. its another one of those sad tales of not being able to innovate.

@meshinka well if you'd bought early last week and then sold later that week you'd have made a 50% profit - their share prices jumped as soon as they released the news of a new company strategy

@toxicalice92 they've been closing down production sites since the early 2000's so its been a gradual loss of jobs :(
January 20th, 2012
@toast Ohh, wow, I haven't even heard anything about it til earlier last year. =/
January 20th, 2012
@toxicalice92 yup... from FT :(
"Mr Perez said Kodak had shed 47,000 jobs and closed 13 manufacturing plants and 130 processing labs since 2003"
January 21st, 2012
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