Kodak has a long history of screw ups. The only thing I can think of is that Kodak is offering Pentax a FF sensor at an extremely low price. Kodak is such a messed up company; I really hope Pentax does not do business with them.
Kodak has been trying to peddle junk for how long?
1970's - 110 film - crappy image quality
1980's - Disc Film - even crappier image quality!
1990's - APS Film (Advanced Photo System) - hardly advanced
2000's - 4/3 and Micro 4/3 camera format and sensors (sensors are small and lack the IQ of either APS-C or FF digital sensors)
A few years ago Walgreens (a large American drug store chain based in suburban Chicago) kicked Kodak photo equipment out of their stores and replaced all the Kodak photo processing equipment with Fuji. There was a big write up in the Chicago Tribune about it. Kodak had originally sold Walgreens photo processing equipment that was prone to break down and messy among other things. Kodak sourced the photo processors from Germany and wasn't able to service or supply parts for the machines. Walgreens was left holding the bag on all these useless, expensive machines. Walgreens dumped Kodak and went with Fuji (Wal Mart later did the same thing). I couldn't find the article on the web, but I remember it being a prominently placed article and thinking how badly Kodak must have ticked off Walgreens to make them do something like this.
Lately it seems that Kodak keeps itself afloat through lawsuits based on its intellectual property.
In 2004, Kodak successfully sued Sun Microsystems claiming Sun had infringed on Kodak's patents in the development of Java. Kodak tried to bleed a one billion dollar settlement from Sun. The lawsuit was later settled for 92 million in cash.
Sun, Kodak Settle For $92M In Patent Dispute Involving Java -- Java -- InformationWeek
In 2008, Kodak started suing Samsung and LG Electronics over digital imaging patents. Samsung and LG are currently counter suing.
Kodak sues Samsung and LG - News, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent
The strange thing is that Kodak holds a lot of the patents used in modern digital imaging. Kodak just manufacturers some really crappy products. I really hope Pentax uses a Samsung FF CMOS sensor. I don't want a camera with a Kodak manufactured sensor!
Originally posted by ogl About FF sensor....OK...
Get, please, "Oil to fire..."
20-22 MP. The manufacturer - Kodak or Samsung.