Kodak No. 1 in USA

Forbes are reporting that sales of Kodak Digital Cameras have surpassed all other digital camera manufacturers putting them in at the number 1 position in the US, ahead of Canon, Sony, Nikon, HP and Olympus. Surprisingly HP were ranked as the 5th biggest seller of digital cameras:

"Eastman Kodak Co. captured the No. 1 slot in the ballooning U.S. digital-camera market for a second straight year, extending its lead over Japanese rivals Canon Inc. and Sony Corp. Domestic sales of digital cameras surged 21 percent to 28 million in 2005, and Kodak's market share leaped to 24.9 percent from 21 percent in 2004, according to data released Thursday by IDC, a research firm in Framingham, Mass." (via Imaging-Resource)