Eastman Kodak Accused Of Illegal Quality Tampering. Huh?!

Former director claims Kodak mislead customers on the quality of online photo sharing
 
Press Release by: FotoInsight.co.uk - online photo printing 
 
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03-31-2006 - (openPR) - Can online photo sharing be free?

 

“A former employee has accused Eastman Kodak Co. of illegally tampering with the quality of customers' digital photos and making false advertising claims, according to a statement issued Wednesday (29 March 2006) by the former employee's attorney” reports DylanMcGrath, business editor at AP. A competing online photo printing service, FotoInsight of Cambridge, UK distances itself from unlimited, free online photo hosting. FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann states: “Providing quality prints for a few cents or pence does not combine with unlimited online storage of multi megabyte image files. FotoInsight only offers uncompressed, printing quality online archiving. We have always stated that this can only be maintained with an honest time limit.”

 

According to FotoInsight, providing unlimited online photo sharing at print quality is unsustainable with ever larger digital camera image files. http://fotoinsight.co.uk provides an online archive option with print orders only, limited to one month, after which users may pay for an extension. Klaas Brumann comments: “Not everything on the internet can be free. There are plenty of sites specializing in online photo sharing, which is a feasible service as long as there is a tap on the size. Ofoto's (Kodak) business idea to use print quality photo files for unlimited hosting is wrong”.

 

According to FotoInsight, providing photo sharing with free basic features is feasible if financed through the sale of add-on premium services or advertising, as long as the image files remain small. Such online photo sharing sites follow a very different business model from photo printing services like FotoInsight, which specialise in real photographic paper prints and photo gifts requiring print resolution jpegs. “FotoInsight has never understood how Ofoto could accept unlimited storage and online access of multi megabyte jpegs for unlimited time. With Kodak acquiring Ofoto they will have to deal with the accusation by their former director of engineering Maya Raber, to have planned to “irreversibly damage photos”.” FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann comments from Cambridge: “FotoInsight is proud to facilitate the sharing of photographic memories with printed photo books or online, across geographic boundaries. Our services endeavour to provide long term quality solutions.”

 

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Information about FotoInsight Ltd
FotoInsight operates a print processing service online. Customers benefit from patented development processes and the experience of Europe’s largest independent photo lab with an installed capacity of 18 million prints per day. Photos ordered through http://fotoinsight.co.uk and http://fotoinsight.com are developed in one of 19 strategically located, state of the art photo labs, employing 3800 staff, with an output of over 3 billion prints per year. Prints and gift items are delivered by mail to 20 European countries and include an online photographic archive option which is free during the first month after a print order.

 

Contact information
FotoInsight Ltd.
Catalina Martinez, Head of Communication
Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
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