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Quicktake 100 Digital Camera

We're all a little Boot Camped out, so let's take a look back into Apple's history to 1994 when Apple was focused on its core product: a digital camera.

That's right, if you thought that the iPod was Apple's first foray into the consumer electronic market you are sadly mistaken. The Quicktake 100 was a digital camera that weighted a pound, took images at a resolution of 640x480, and had a 1MB of onboard memory so you could take 8 pictures. And it was Mac only (though later models were cross platform).

Apple produced three models (the 100, 150, and the 200) before Steve Jobs returned to Apple and killed the product. Check out the Apple Quicktake page in Wikipedia for more info.

Thanks to Retrothing for taking us down the technology memory lane.

We're all a little Boot Camped out, so let's take a look back into Apple's history to 1994 when Apple was focused on its core product: a...
 

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TheGeekGuy

OMG! That's me! Or at least me hands. That image was taken by John Henshall of Electronic Photo-Imaging at Brentford Docks (in the UK) for an article for the Photographer magazine! I had just started and this was the first thing I helped him with... OMG!

April 08 2006 at 10:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dean Shan

I remember when my school bought one of those. It increased our photoshop usage like none other.

April 07 2006 at 8:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Noah Ramon

Um, I would think that one of the earlier consumer electronics attempts would be the
PowerCD from 1993...(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerCD for a little more info)

I really wanted one of these - and then I got a IIvx. Be careful what you wish for.

April 07 2006 at 4:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jody

I have the 100, still in the box! Anyone out there know the value of such an item?

What is a good site for Apple collector's?

April 07 2006 at 1:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tr

i remember when our IT dept at work got one of these when they first came out. it seemed so strange and futuristic, "a digital picture...?" and it had a close-up lens...which was actually just some piece of plastic that snapped on in front of the lens. it's crazy to think how far we've come in such a small amount of time.

April 07 2006 at 12:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mitchell

When I first started with my department in 2002 they took my staff picture with a Quicktake 100. They thought they were on top of technology.

You would think for a computer department being in the year 2002 they would have some more advanced camera.

Ahh the memories.

April 07 2006 at 11:55 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
George Brett

I still have a bunch quicktake files that I didn't convert to jpeg, pict, or tiff. Does anyone know of a way to convert them with an OS X application? Or even 9? Is the olde software still available some where?

April 07 2006 at 10:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bob Mc

I used to have one of those babies. I remember taking it with me when I went back home for Christmas. No one could comprehend what it was. Of course, now they all have digital cameras and can't comprehend why I still have a film camera.

April 07 2006 at 10:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Damien

Anyone who thinks that the iPod is Apple's first foray into consumer electronics should be beat with a Newton...

The other original digital camera maker; Polaroid: A company that should have NEVER gotten out of the digital camera market, especially when you look at them now. The sinking Polaroid, which got out of that market because they saw digital cameras as their 'competition.'
Yeah, I think I'd rather use a One Step instant camera, and pay a buck for each photo (film 10 packs) that the already bad image captured will degrade over a short amount of time, and god forbid your subject matter moves at all! Much better than digital, good job Polaroid... Dummies!

April 07 2006 at 10:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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