Filed under: Hardware, Peripherals, Odds and ends, Apple
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.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
DamienG said 10:30AM on 4-07-2006
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!
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BobMac said 10:35AM on 4-07-2006
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.
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George Brett said 10:40AM on 4-07-2006
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?
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Mitchell said 11:55AM on 4-07-2006
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.
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tr said 12:01PM on 4-07-2006
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.
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Jody said 1:46PM on 4-07-2006
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?
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Noah Ramon said 4:13PM on 4-07-2006
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.
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Dean Shan said 8:55PM on 4-07-2006
I remember when my school bought one of those. It increased our photoshop usage like none other.
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Iain Brown said 10:26PM on 4-08-2006
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!
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