Digital cameras means death for Kodak plant in Australia

The icon of photography, Kodak, long struggled to get into the digital business, but seems to get its focus lately. Suffering, however, are those plants and employees in the plant that depend on "normal" photography.

In Australia, the company now closes its Melbourne factory, forcing more than 600 staff out of work.

"One-third of Australian households would own a digital camera by the end of 2004, he said, while 3.5 million Australians would have a camera on their mobile phones.

Accordingly, demand for film and photographic paper had been falling by about 15 per cent over each of the past two years. "