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In 1981, the United States photographic film manufacturing giant Eastman Kodak Company set up an office in Beijing.
The item from April 12, 1996, in China Daily showed 22/32 16/27 24/29 23/29 17/24 24/31 24/29 23/28 17/29 26/32 22/29 15/25 22/28 13/27 27/30 25/34 16/26 11/24 10/21 13/23 26/29 24/28 22/29 24/30 18/22 26/32 C C Sh C C O
D S R O T O C St C C D O D R Sh O R C Sh Shanghai Shenyang Shenzhen Shijiazhuang Suzhou Taipei Taiyuan Tianjin Urumqi Wuhan Xi'an Xiamen Xining Yantai Yinchuan Zhengzhou Zhuhai Athens Berlin Brussels Geneva Istanbul London Madrid Moscow Paris Rome Vienna an employee of Kodak introducing a new product, the digital camera, to visitors at the China International Photographic Equipment Exhibition in Shanghai.
At that time, such cameras were rare and expensive.
With technological development and digitalization, traditional photography companies struggled for years to adapt to an increasingly digital world and Kodak filed for bankruptcy in 2012.
Smartphones, with built- 22/29 19/28 25/28 25/33 19/30 26/33 18/30 24/31 17/30 20/32 22/31 25/30 7/15 19/31 14/27 23/36 26/28 22/32 15/19 15/20 16/16 21/32 10/11 13/16 6/16 18/19 19/19 18/18 C T R C O O C D S C C D R C O C St S S C D C S D O D C D 22/27 17/29 25/29 22/25 20/28 26/34 15/26 21/30 20/32 23/29 16/24 25/32 5/19 19/26 13/27 20/31 26/29 21/37 15/20 15/19 16/17 21/32 11/12 12/13 10/18 17/21 18/20 17/20 O C St C D O O C S D D O D C O C R S S D R S C D O D D D in cameras and image editing software, are becoming the main camera of choice for many.
Amid the increasing popularity of smartphones, some traditional camera companies failed to keep up with the trends and were pushed out of the market.
Kodak finally emerged from its bankruptcy and in THURSDAY FRIDAY Abu Dhabi 34/44 Bangkok 28/34 Colombo 26/31 Dubai 34/41 Hanoi 24/35 Islamabad 28/43 Jakarta 26/32 Karachi 28/35 Kuala Lumpur 26/33 Manila 27/31 Mumbai 27/32 New Delhi 30/41 Pyongyang 18/29 Riyadh 26/44 Seoul 19/31 Singapore 28/33 Sydney 15/18 Teheran 22/34 Tokyo 18/28 Wellington 8/13 Yangon 24/32 S D R S C S D C D D D S C S S D D S C D D 32/42 27/35 27/31 33/42 24/35 27/42 26/33 29/35 26/32 27/30 27/32 32/39 18/27 27/42 19/30 29/34 12/19 22/31 20/29 9/14 24/31 S D D S C S D C D D D S O S C D O S S D D 2016 it unveiled the Ektra, a “photography first” smartphone.
The smartphone market has seen many manufacturers upping the ante to snap opportunities. BuenosAires 8/13 Caracas 26/30 Chicago 17/27 Houston 24/32 Las Vegas 27/36 Los Angeles 15/21 Mexico city 15/23 New York 14/25 Ottawa 7/24 Rio De Janeiro 19/25 San Francisco 13/20 Sao Paulo 16/21 Vancouver 11/17 Washington 16/28 Cairo 23/35 CapeTown 15/16 Johannesburg -1/16 Lagos 26/29 Nairobi 13/25 S D D D S S C C D D C D C S S O S O C 8/13 D 26/31 D 19/28 D 24/32 D 25/38 S 14/24 S 16/24 R 13/29 C 12/23 D 22/26 D 12/22 C 15/20 D 10/16 D 14/31 C 24/37 S 14/18 D 2/15 S 25/29 D 10/26 C