They definitely missed a big opportunity. The company is fucked up beyond belief.
They once made great cameras and lenses. The 127mm lens on my Speed Graphic is a Kodak Ektar Supermatic and it is a spectacularly excellent lens.
ARM does not actually make CPUs/SOCs, they just design the CPU architecture and license manufacturer out to others like Qualcomm, Samsung, AMD, Apple, et al. At present, having bought up a processor company and made good use of its engineering talent, Apple has turned out ARM-based SOCs that are on the verge of outperforming the best Intel has to offer. ARM also partners with some of its licensees in the design process, leveraging their real-world experience to optimize the next generation.
The British film manufacturer Ilford, as I recall, made some damn high quality b/w negative stock back in the day.
From France:
Angenieux lenses.
Aaton cameras.
Eclair cameras (sold to Aaton in 1986).
Pathé made cameras and film.
Optics, but not cameras as far as I know: Swarovski is Austrian. Granted, not that far from German.
Yeah they still do, here is a picture I shot with Ilford 400 recently, and here one with Ilford 100. It’s very good black and white film, although I typically shoot color.
Kodak Alaris, the Kodak spinoff which currently makes Kodak film, paper, and chemicals, is also a UK company.
Look, perusing the list of current camera manufactures, I got as A B and C, and found two… so not just one freak.
Andor Technology is new to the field, based at UK’s Northern Ireland. (I thought Id make it clear its part of the UK of GB !)
So they ARE new and into top notch SCIENCE.
And now for something old… Famous American portrait photographers used Cooke cameras, 100% British cameras back in the 1930’s.
They are known for being good at some things !
There’s sure to be more in the list after C. and they were only ones still operating, I didnt get to defunct camera companies !
If we’re counting scientific “cameras” (i.e. readout electronics for sensors), Rutherfoard Appleton Laboratory is a world leader in CCD cameras for space science applications. Their cameras are used on many satellites, like NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
…and also, it’s not just readout electronics. e2v (British company recently acquired by Teledyne) makes some of the best CCD imaging sensors for space science. They are used in many of the most prominent science satellites, including Hubble, Kepler and Curiosity (Mars rover). Which means many of the best images taken by NASA space telescopes & probes were taken with British imaging sensors.
I remember seeing a Jaguar back in the early 1980s that had a bumper sticker on it that read, “The parts falling off this vehicle are of the finest British craftsmanship.”
I would guide you towards the RED ONE Digital Cinema Camera. 100% American. Conceived by the fellow who made his billions with Oakley Sunglasses.
RED is based in Orange County CA. They clearly set a new benchmark. They created the first large size single CMOS cinema camera in history.
I was the first person to mount one of the prototype RED ONE cameras onto a Steadicam. It was at the NAB show in Vegas many years ago. In return for doing that, I asked them to get me into the screening of the short film directed by Peter Jackson ( Lord of the Rings trilogy ).
It was both exciting and disappointing. It looked SO MUCH better than, say, Superman Returns which was shot on the Panavision Genesis system. But it also looked like the world’s most expensive video game. Lacking the texture of organic film imaging, the thing looked gorgeous but flat as hell.
That said, RED ONE was an innovation.
As far as consumer photographic gear, yeah. I’ve got nothing.
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Agreed. He’s not framing his argument very well, thus resulting in that synching feeling.
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That pun made me shutter.
“No sir, your Rolls-Royce did not ‘break down.’ It is simply failing to proceed.”
You just gotta roll with it.
Their engineers couldn’t figure out how to make them leak oil…
I already made that joke in post #20.
Yeah, but now it’s leaking onto the second page.
Just put the page into the fixer and the problems will not develop further.
Just stop!