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Apple QuickTake

History

In 1992, Apple Computer started marketing plans for a digital camera called QuickTake, codenamed Venus. At the time over $12 billion was spent annually in the United States on photography. Apple searched for a company to design and manufacture their QuickTake digital Camera line. It should be noted as fact, that Kodak had already been selling their own self-branded version of this camera, made in Japan by Chinon Industries, for over a year[citation needed].

The QuickTake 100 was released in 1994 as an easy-to-use digital camera that connected to any Macintosh computer by way of an Apple serial cable. The camera was capable of storing eight photos at 640x480 resolution, 32 photos at 320x240 resolution, or a mixture of both sizes. All photos were at 24-bit color. The camera had a built-in flash, but no focus or zoom controls. The QuickTake 150 kit included a separate close-up lens that allowed focusing at approximately 30 cm. Other than downloading the photos to a computer, there was no way to preview them on the camera, nor was there any way to delete individual photos from the camera (though there was a recessed 'trash' button which would delete the entire contents of the camera). It was one of the first digital cameras that were targeted to consumers to be released.

Apple released a connection kit for Microsoft Windows with the QuickTake 150 in 1995. The last QuickTake model was the Fujifilm-built QuickTake 200, released in 1996. The 200 added focus and aperture controls, as well as the ability to store images on removable SmartMedia flashRAM cards.

The various QuickTake models didn't sell very well, as other companies such as Kodak (already in the market before Apple), Fujifilm, Canon, and Nikon entered the digital market with brands that consumers associated with photography. They were discontinued in 1997 shortly after Steve Jobs came back to Apple. In an attempt to streamline Apple's operations, Jobs discontinued many non-computer products, including the Newton line of products, the LaserWriter printer line, and the QuickTake cameras. The Apple QuickTake camera has since become a collectors item for Apple enthusiasts.

Specifications

Model

100

150

200

Image

24-bit

24-bit

24-bit

Resolution

640x480 pixels

640x480 pixels

640x480 pixels

Image Format

PICT, QuickTake

QuickTake from camera only (conversion to TIFF, BMP, PCX, JPEG in computer)

TIFF, BMP, PCX, JPEG, QuickTake

Lens

8 mm

8 mm

8 mm

Memory

1MB Flash EPROM

1MB Flash EPROM

2 or 4MB 5V SmartMedia card

Shutter Speed

1/30 to 1/175 of a second

1/30 to 1/175 of a second

1/4 to 1/5000 of a second

Connection

RS-232C

RS-422, RS-232C

RS-232C , NTSC Video I/O

Introduced

16 February 1994

May 1995

17 February 1997

Discontinued

 ?

 ?

1997

Introductory Price

$749 US

$700 US

$600 US

Using QuickTake

The QuickTake 200 can be used with card-readers that can read 5V media cards. For users with an Apple Macintosh running System 7 up to Mac OS 9 with a serial port, the QuickTake 200 can be plugged directly into the computer using the Apple QuickTake camera software. The QuickTake 100 and 150 store images internally, not on cards, so they must be used with an Apple serial cable and the QuickTake driver software. The QuickTake cameras cannot be directly connected to a Macintosh running Mac OS X, both because these machines do not support the old Apple Serial protocol, and because QuickTake cameras used a unique codec for compression and decompression which has not been ported to modern versions of QuickTime.

See also

List of products discontinued by Apple Inc.

References

^ "21 Great Technologies that Failed". PC Magazine Online Features. PC Magazine. 2008-07-26. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2325943,00.asp. Retrieved 2008-07-27. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Apple QuickTake

QuickTake 200/Fuji DS-7 Users' Page

Apple Japanese QuickTake 150 Datasheet

Apple Japanese QuickTake 150 Datasheet(translated)

WWW Publishing: Graphics - Quicktake 150

QuickTake camera manuals

Apple's Forgotten QuickTake Cameras

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Apple hardware before 1998

Computers

Apple

Apple I  Apple II series (II, II Plus, II Europlus, II J-Plus)  IIe series (IIe, IIe Card for Macintosh LC series)  IIc series (IIc, IIc Plus)  IIGS  Apple III series (Apple III, III Plus)

Lisa

Lisa  Lisa 2  Macintosh XL

Compact Macintosh

128K  512K (512K, 512Ke)  Plus  SE (SE, SE FDHD)  SE/30  Classic  Classic II (Performa 200)  Color Classic (Performa 250)  Color Classic II (Performa 275)

Macintosh II

II  IIx  IIcx  IIci  IIfx  IIsi  IIvi (Performa 600)  IIvx

Macintosh LC

LC series (LC II (Performa 400410), LC III (Performa 450), LC III+ (Performa 460467))  LC 500 series (LC 520 (Performa 520, Macintosh TV), LC 550 (Performa 550560), LC 575 (Performa 575578), LC 580 (Performa 580))  5200/5300 LC series (5200 LC (Performa 52005220), 5260 (Performa 52605280), 5300 LC (Performa 53005320))

Macintosh Quadra

700  900  950 (AWS 95)  800 (AWS 80)  840AV  610 (Centris 610, AWS 60)  650 (Centris 650)  660AV (Centris 660AV)  605 (LC 475, Performa 475, 476)  630 (LC 630, Performa 630640)

PowerBook

Macintosh Portable  100 series (100, 140, 170, 145, 160, 180, 165, 145B, 165c, 180c, 150)  Duo series (210, 230, 250, 270c, 280, 280c, 2300c, Duo Dock)  500 series (520, 520c, 540, 540c, 550c)  190 series (190, 190cs)  5300 series (5300, 5300cs, 5300c, 5300ce)  1400 series (1400c, 1400cs)  3400c  2400c  G3

Power Macintosh

6100 (Performa 61106118), AWS 6150)  7100  8100 (AWS 8150)  AWS 9150  6200/6300 series (6200, (Performa 62006230), 6300 (Performa 62606360))  9500  7200 (AWS 7250)  7500  8500 (AWS 8550)  5400 (Performa 54005440)  7600  6400 (Performa 6400, 6410, 6420)  4400 (7220)  5500  6500  7300 (AWS 7350)  8600  9600 (AWS 9650)  G3  Twentieth Anniversary Mac

Network Server

500  700

Peripherals

Displays

Monitor III  Monitor II  Monitor IIc  AppleColor Composite IIe  AppleColor High-Resolution RGB  Macintosh Color  AudioVision 14  Multiple Scan 14  ColorSync 750

External drives

Floppy drives (Apple II and III, Macintosh)  Hard drives (ProFile, Hard Disk 20, Hard Disk 20SC)  Optical drives (AppleCD, PowerCD)

Input devices

External Keyboards (Numeric Keypad IIe, Lisa Keyboard, Macintosh Keyboard, Macintosh Numeric Keypad, Macintosh Plus Keyboard, ADB Keyboard, Standard Keyboard, Extended, Apple Keyboard II, Extended Keyboard II, Adjustable, Newton Keyboard, Apple Design Keyboard, Twentieth Anniversary Mac Keyboard)  Mice (Lisa, Macintosh, Mouse IIc, AppleMouse II, Apple Mouse, Mouse IIe, ADB Mouse, ADB Mouse II)  Mouse derivatives (Apple II Graphics Tablet, Joystick)  Scanner  OneScanner  Color OneScanner (Color OneScanner, 600/27)  QuickTake cameras (100, 150, 200)  QuickTime Conferencing Kit

Networking

Apple II Communications Card  Apple Modems  LocalTalk network adapter  Comm slot cards  GeoPort Telecom Adapters

Printers

Thermal (SilenType, Scribe Printer)  Impact (Dot Matrix Printer, ImageWriter, ImageWriter II, ImageWriter LQ)  LaserWriter (LaserWriter, Plus, IISC, IINT, IINTX, IIf, IIg, 4/600 PS, 16/600 PS, 12/640 PS, 8500)  Personal LaserWriter (SC, LS, NT, NTR, 300, 320)  LaserWriter Pro (600, 630, 810)  LaserWriter Select (300, 310, 360)  Color LaserWriter (12/600 PS, 12/660 PS)  StyleWriter (StyleWriter, II, 1200, Portable)  Color Printer  Color StyleWriter (Pro, 2400, 2200, 1500, 2500, 4100, 4500, 6500)

Newton

MessagePad (100, 110, 120, 130, 2000, 2100)  eMate 300

Other

Paladin  AppleDesign Powered Speakers  Interactive Television Box  Pippin

See also: Apple hardware since 1998.

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