A QuickTake on Apple's digital photography
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 2:00PM | Glyn Evans Whilst reading another blog I was surprised to discover that Apple's venture in to digital photography started way back in the mid 90's, a long long time before iPhoneography.
A quick look on Wikipedia revealed that Apple released 3 digital cameras, the QuickTake 100 and 150 and the QuickTake 200.
The QuickTake 100 and 150 were produced for Apple by Kodak, and took 8 photos at 640x480 and 32 photos at 320x240 resolution, or a mixture of both sizes. Both cameras had a built-in flash, but no focus or zoom controls, however the QuickTake 150 did come with a separate close-up lens that allowed focusing at approximately 30 cm.
The QuickTake 200 was a much improved model manufactured for Apple by Fujifilm, and included focus and aperture controls, as well as being able to store the images taken on the then popular SmartMedia cards.
The various QuickTake models didn't sell very well, and were discontinued in 1997 shortly after Steve Jobs came back to Apple.
Since then the Apple QuickTake cameras have become collectors items for Apple enthusiasts, but a quick look on eBay did not reveal much.
To find out more on the various QuickTake models, then check out this article over at Wikipedia.
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Reader Comments (2)
I got my hands on the 150 model. So cool!
I used to use them, but never owned one since it was beyond my grad school budget. By the end of it, the big boys of photography started to play in this field so it’s good that Apple left. It was a weird time, since a 640x480 diskette-based Sony camera was still selling well into the late 90’s.
If you really want a blast from the past, check out the Thunderscan. Ahh, memories!