FYI, I worked for Kodak in 1998-2000.
Their P&S were outsourced long time ago, just the logo was Kodak.
Some companies don't miss the boat. For 7 years, in the 1970's I worked for Johnson Service Co, now called Johnson Controls, a manufacturer of pneumatic temperature controls. In fact Johnson invented pneumatic controls 100 years ago. Thermostats, controllers, dampers and valves used in HVAC systems were controlled pneumatically as the pressure move rubber diaphragms in actuators.
When I went for an interview at their NYC office, they explained what they do. At the time I was working for Sperry Rand Univac computer division as a technician, and knew nothing about pneumatic controls. During the interview for a position as an application engineer where they made these electronic systems connected to the pneumatic controls just for monitoring but little control, I asked the manager why didn't they just drop pneumatics and use the electronic computers to monitor and control the system directly. The guy smile and hired me. For years Johnson, Honeywell, and Powers, the key pneumatic players resisted giving up pneumatic controls, so lucrative was it. In fact, Johnson's first computer based control system was built by others. They private labelled it. It took them a couple of years to have their own systems. Unlike Kodak, they saw the handwriting on the wall and switched to digital controls. Today they're still a very successful controls company. The old pneumatic thermostats make great paper weights as I'm sure do the old Kodak cameras.
