It's hard not to be sentimental about Kodak products and their role in our memory banks: the Instamatic camera, the Carousel projector, Tri-X and Kodachrome films and so much more. What was your favorite Kodak product?
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There was a time when the name Kodak meant photography. Today, this iconic company is rumored to be on the brink of a financial meltdown. NBC's Rehema Ellis reports.


The whole, "Kodak couldn't adapt to the digital age" is a tired, unfounded narrative that keeps being pushed. The company was one of the few that basically set the digital standard for every camera we currently have. They weren't sitting on their haunches and letting the world pass them by; they were innovating and helping change the market and demand.
"Since the mid-1970s, Kodak has invented several solid-state image sensors that "converted light to digital pictures" for professional and home consumer use. In 1986, Kodak scientists invented the world's first megapixel sensor, capable of recording 1.4 million pixels that could produce a 5x7-inch digital photo-quality print. In 1987, Kodak released seven products for recording, storing, manipulating, transmitting and printing electronic still video images. In 1990, Kodak developed the Photo CD system and proposed "the first worldwide standard for defining color in the digital environment of computers and computer peripherals." In 1991, Kodak released the first professional digital camera system (DCS), aimed at photojournalists. It was a Nikon F-3 camera equipped by Kodak with a 1.3 megapixel sensor."