Camera Brands That Disappeared (mostly)

There was a time when taking a picture was an event. You bought film. You loaded the camera. You had 24 shots and no idea how they turned out. And during that era, a handful of companies controlled everything — the cameras, the film, the processing, the paper. Then the smartphone happened. Within a single decade, nearly every major camera brand was bankrupt, sold off, or forced to completely reinvent itself. This video covers the full stories of Kodak (invented the digital camera, then got killed by it), Polaroid (the instant photography icon that died and was resurrected by fans), Minolta (invented autofocus, then handed everything to Sony), Olympus (destroyed by a billion-dollar accounting scandal), and Fujifilm (the one that survived by pivoting into cosmetics and healthcare).