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While Kodak was indeed a leader in many ways, I recall lusting after the Leaf camera backs (used on 4x5 cameras, which I was using at the time) before the Kodak 35 mm backs, which went on already-expensive Nikon 8008s bodies (I still have a 8008s with a data back somewhere, that Kodak DCS must've weighed a ton!).
The meat of the market had to be complete (consumer) digicams. Kodak made too many clunky models. They had a neat dock system but memory card readers shortly became ubiquitous (and now wifi). Sony made early digicams that directly wrote onto 3.5" floppy disks. Very convenient at the time. Seems to me I always thought of Kodak as a second-rate player in the integrated digicam space.
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