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All of their products were a little too cheaply designed and made though. They drug their feet getting into the digital camera game and when they finally did, they released cameras that looked like toys compared to the other companies' offerings.

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I think you're referring to a later period. They had earlier digital cameras that were not cheap and were ahead of the competition. IIRC Kodak invented the digital camera pretty much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_DCS

Sure, but those weren't really mass marketed. You don't make money by making one off devices that aren't sold to the general public. The few things that they did market were too expensive and not readily available. Hell most of the links in that wiki are red because none of the individual models were interesting enough to even have their own entries. They started the race and then dropped out instead of investing in long term survival of their company.

I used a Kodak digital camera in the late 90's. I don't remember the model name. These cameras were not "one offs". They were not quite consumer products either. They were more "Pro-sumer".

Even later they had some pretty good models but were just a touch too late into the consumer market vs. others like Sony, Fuji and Canon when the market exploded. I'm not really sure anyone made a lot of money in this market.

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