How Long From Announcement To Being Available - Kodak Z812IS

On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:48:07 -0500, John Turco wrote:

> Apparently, however, the "P" series of more sophisticated digicams has
> been discontinued; the P880 had been the sole remaining model, anyway.
> (Which is sad, as I own a P850 and am very satisfied with it.)

Played for a sucker by Kodak, eh? Will you take a page from kinga
and turn on Kodak for treating you so shabbily? <g> To paraphrase
William Bendix's character (guess who?), I'm surprised by this
revoltin' development. You'd think that continuing the "P" series
would have had some value. Intangibles count too, and they might
have helped owners of Kodak cameras from jumping ship to another
company when upgrade time approached, even if the new camera
wouldn't have been from the "P" series.
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ASAAR wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:48:07 -0500, John Turco wrote:
>
>> Apparently, however, the "P" series of more sophisticated digicams has
>> been discontinued; the P880 had been the sole remaining model, anyway.
>> (Which is sad, as I own a P850 and am very satisfied with it.)
>
> Played for a sucker by Kodak, eh? Will you take a page from kinga
> and turn on Kodak for treating you so shabbily? <g> To paraphrase
> William Bendix's character (guess who?), I'm surprised by this
> revoltin' development. You'd think that continuing the "P" series
> would have had some value. Intangibles count too, and they might
> have helped owners of Kodak cameras from jumping ship to another
> company when upgrade time approached, even if the new camera
> wouldn't have been from the "P" series.
>

A company makes such decisions entirely on the figures on the 'bottom
line', not on what the consumer has to say. It may not make people
happy, but it keeps the company in business. Likely the best features,
and new ones, will appear on a camera in the 'z' series.
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On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:10:21 -0500, Ron Hunter wrote:

> A company makes such decisions entirely on the figures on the 'bottom
> line', not on what the consumer has to say. It may not make people
> happy, but it keeps the company in business. Likely the best features,
> and new ones, will appear on a camera in the 'z' series.

Sure, but I meant that while not quite the same thing, the reason
for a new "P" series camera would be akin to Detroit helping develop
cars and engines that could compete in races, even though very few
would ever be produced. It helped to company images which in turn
sold more cars from their more mundane lines. Maybe that line of
cameras deserved to die. Ever hear of "Z" cars? Many people have.
Ever hear of "P" cars? I didn't think so. Maybe Kodak has hired a
better ad agency.
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ASAAR wrote:
>
> On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:48:07 -0500, John Turco wrote:
>
> > Apparently, however, the "P" series of more sophisticated digicams has
> > been discontinued; the P880 had been the sole remaining model, anyway.
> > (Which is sad, as I own a P850 and am very satisfied with it.)
>
> Played for a sucker by Kodak, eh? Will you take a page from kinga
> and turn on Kodak for treating you so shabbily? <g> To paraphrase
> William Bendix's character (guess who?), I'm surprised by this
> revoltin' development.

Hello, ASAAR:

Oh, I don't know...would he be Chester A. Riley, of "The Life of Riley"
television series (1953-'5, by any chance? <g> (Jackie Gleason had
earlier played the role, on the original, failed 1949-'50 TV show,
incidentally.)

Furthermore, the Fantastic Four's Benjamin Grimm (better known as the
mighty and grotesque "Thing"), has long been noted for his frequent
use of the "revoltin' development" phrase, along with, "It's clobberin'
time!" :-J

> You'd think that continuing the "P" series would have had some value.
> Intangibles count too, and they might have helped owners of Kodak cameras
> from jumping ship to another company when upgrade time approached, even
> if the new camera wouldn't have been from the "P" series.

Kodak's recent moves are truly somewhat baffling, given the company's
previous public proclamation about exiting the "low end" camera market.
Instead, they've introduced new, cheap digicams and now, have decided
to drop their high-end "P" models!

It all seems quite contradictory, to me. (The P850 is still my poor,
little, abandoned puppy, which I shall always cherish, nonetheless. <g>)


Cordially,
John Turco
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