“It will be a long time before the phone cameras replace a serious DSLR, or even a good “bridge” camera, if great photos are your goal.”
Which has absolutely nothing to do with my point which is that Kodak doesn’t MAKE a serious DSLR, so they have nothing to offer that isn’t being killed by cell phone cameras.
Like it or not, cell phones are the new “point-n-shoot” cameras. And “point-n-shoot” cameras are what Kodak has made for decades, regardless of format.
(I’m old school, my phone has a camera and I never even THINK of it, even when I see one of those “gee, I wish I had a camera” scenes. )
No, I'M old school...I don't have a cell phone.
Interestingly, Kodak did make the first serious DSLRs, one each based on Nikon and Canon bodies, respectively. Kodak supplied the sensor and the electronics.
But N and C soon went their own ways, investing heavily in the technology to produce their own DSLRs. Canon went so far as to fab their own sensors. (Both companies sell or have sold photo steppers to the integrated circuit industry.)
Nowadays, of course, N and C battle it out for the top spot in the DSLR market; but even here, you have tremendously motivated upstarts with deep pockets challenging them at every turn: Sony, Panasonic, and Pentax, to name the principals.
The point-and-shoot market is even larger, and the same companies compete in the wide range of cameras in this category. Here, the competition and market share is more evenly distributed among many players.
The low end of the point-and-shoot market has undoubtedly been eroded by smartphones. But image quality will always be dependent on square millimeters of sensor, and the phones are at the bottom of this heap, with DSLRs at the top, and point-n-shoots in between.