Essays on Digital Photography

Executive summary

This report is an analysis of the performance of Kodak over time since its inception. The report finds that the dismal performance of Kodak is largely as a result of the poor leadership elected to lead the company. The report traces the failures of the company to the hierarchical and toxic leadership styles that saw the company lag behind in joining the competitors in the migration to digital photography. The report concludes by highlighting the specific failures of leadership that cost the company a fortune had it transformed into digital promptly. The report recommends a series of actions to ...

Introduction

Photographs save moments. The most efficacious and optimum images provided in the news capture the viewer. The viewer not only sees the news moment, but also feels it through the presentation of the image. These images are seen as reality by viewers. Viewers hold the news images as truths. This was the case before video and digital photographer and it still applies today with the exponential advances. Advances in technology and the image on news photography has been both advantages and disadvantages to newspapers and electronic news sources. The way in which the news captured images prior to the ...

In the late 19th century, the earliest daguerreotype cameras also known as the ‘boxes’ were used to capture images on monochrome tints but produced through lengthy periods of time. From the large black and white box cameras, the transition shifted to handy type mobile film cameras that instead of using large film sheets, cameras in the 1950s used smaller rolls of cameras which were converted later own to negatives. Starting from this, the trend towards photographic innovation became fast-forward up to the point of the emergence of the smartphones and DLSR cameras that uses digital pixels instead of film ...