Posts by OhIthinkNot 4 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Mar 2012
All of these comments about film miss the point. Kodak doesn't do much film anymore, certainly not consumer film. They have sold most of those divisions (or given them away to creditors).
All that's left of Kodak is the commercial print business (digital printers, prepress platesetters, printing plates, and the associated workflow).
This is not your grandfather's or your father's Kodak. This is not your Kodak of 10 years ago.
We'll see if they can manage this business well, or it will suffer the same fate as their film business.
The '218 patent, known as the image preview patent, covers the use of a smaller image file than the actual stored image: so if you are using an 8 megapixel camera, you don't have to display the full 8 megapixel data as the user pans around, you down-sample and show an image that is the same as the one that will be taken, but at a smaller resolution.
The allows for LCDs that are lower resolution than the sensor, and faster refresh times on the LCD.
Actually quite clever, really.
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