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Apple QuickTake 100: 1994 Digital Camera Experience (Patreon)

Published:
2018-02-09 00:00:01
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2021-03

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Previous camera retrospective went over quite well so here's another people have been asking me about ever since I bought it on LGR Thrifts!

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Apple QuickTake 100: 1994 Digital Camera Experience

Unboxing and testing the Quick Take 100, Apple's first digital camera! It may only shoot in 0.31 megapixel 640x480, but at least it had 24-bit color when certain competitors were still doing black and white. ● Consider supporting LGR on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews ● Social links: https://twitter.com/lazygamereviews https://www.facebook.com/LazyGameReviews ● Music used in order of appearance: Ain't That So 3, Streetlight Conundrum, All is Good Again 2 http://www.epidemicsound.com

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Bastien Nocera

I have one of those, and the QuickTake 150 Windows software should work with the 100 model. Hit me up on Twitter if you want the reference.

LazyGameReviews
>>10025642

That'd be an interesting test, but I still don't have a way to plug the GeoPort cable into a Windows PC (and don't have any adapters.) Might order one to try in the future though, thanks!

Anonymous

I love mid-1990s Apple. Everything's Quick- or Power- with nary an i- in sight.

Mac84

Awesome video, this was a nice surprise! I remember using a second-hand QuickTake 100 in the early 2000s. By that time I already shelved my Jam Cam 3.0 in favor of an HP Photosmart 435. But being an Apple geek this was fun to play around with, I actually had two (they were from a school). So when my 8 photos were up I just grabbed another! The design is interesting, although the 200 model looks more like an actual digital camera. Thanks for giving your honest opinion about this, back in the day it was pretty exciting tech!

LazyGameReviews
>>10025890

Haha I had a Photosmart 435 as well for a while. Felt like living in the future with that LCD.

Anonymous

Great video. I still have one of these too in the attic somewhere, it was my dad's. This video has inspired me to find it and see if it still works!

Anonymous

It looks like a toy by todays standards. Interesting as always LGR

Anonymous

Great video. My first digital camera was the Casio QV-10a and it didn't take pictures as nice as these, and I think I paid around $600 for that thing. I believe it's only resolution was 320x240.

LazyGameReviews
>>10026100

Thanks, David! The QV-10 came up quite a lot in my research for this one. Seems it shot 320x240 but used interpolation to boost images to 640x480!

Anonymous

Lucky. I always wanted one!

Anonymous

I love and appreciate how you specify things like currency (ie USD) and give both imperial and metric. Shows you're aware people outside the USA watch your videos. :)

Anonymous

Oooooo, yeah. Thursday: MADE!

Anonymous

My first digital camera experience was with one of those old floppy disk cameras. A Sony I think. I had so much fun going out with one pocket full of floppys and the other pocket with batteries. Tech used to be so much fun.

Evan B

Heh that reminds me of my first digital camera.. I had the Creative Labs Webcam Go Plus! .. It was pretty much the same.. low-res VGA pictures with a tiny little LCD that tracked how many pictures were taken, yet it would also fold down in the middle and I could use it as a webcam

Techokami

Oh man, my high school art department had a fleet of these things for students to do photography with!

Anonymous

Fantastic video! I love hearing about old digital cameras. You should take a look at the Sony Mavica floppy camera at some point.

floverSaeu09

interesting, I never come across this before! Now, I learned something new!

Carey Brown

Ahhh man that brings back some memories. The elementary school, where I was doing a work study for their Macintosh computers, had a QuickTake 100 that was upgraded internals to a 150 level. It was pretty cool but had a lot of the same issues. Thanks for the video!

Anonymous

I love it! It's also easy to laugh at 640x480 today, but in 1995, that was the resolution of my display! (and if I wanted 24-bit color, I only had enough VRAM for 640x400) Why would you need any more?!

BastetFurry

Kodak DC-40 next? Still got one in working condition. :D

Anonymous

First digital camera I used at school back in 1995. I'm sure it only took in b&w (unless we'd buggered around with settings when transferring them)

Anonymous

I love the wild chromatic aberration. Also, it looks like a binocular from Star Wars :D

Lindsay Michelle

I liked your outdoor camera shots... both with this Apple digital camera and for showing off said camera :) I like the idea of showing time ambiguity through pictures with old cameras... though for this, I don't think Covfefe is very 90s, just saying ;) haha

moosemaimer

My high school FIRST team had one of these back in '97-98, I was simultaneously amazed and yet underwhelmed by it. Eight shots, really?

Anonymous

I like the binocular look!

Anonymous

I remember my first camera that I "owned" had a SD card that held a whole 32MB (yeah I'm not that knowledgeable with tech). It blew my tiny little mind...Also I say "owned" because I stole it off my older sister when I was around 12...

Anonymous

cant wait until i see the new thrifts eps i love the series

Bryan McIntosh

Ugh, I am so happy that I don't have to deal with Ni-Cad batteries anymore. They didn't hold a charge very well, suffered from memory effect pretty badly, and took an eternity to charge up. They beat the alternatives at the time since NiMH wasn't affordable yet, but as soon as I could replace them I did. Also, that leaky Ni-Cad electrolyte is probably chock full of all KINDS of delicious toxicity. As AvE would say, those are all SORTS of crusty! ;)

Anonymous

Glad to see the QuickTake 100 again! In 1995, we used this camera to make the first student photo ID at my college. Unfortunately, the slow speeds involved in moving the images from the camera to our rudimentary database (maybe FileMaker Pro but might have been 4D) created a really long queue for enrolling students that nearly caused our Registrar a heart attack. Good times!

Anonymous

I’d say digital has definitely taken over given the excessive number of old film cameras I see at my local thrift store.

LupineDream

Overpiced Apple Tech - Nothing really new but for the technology at the time, 640x480 was what you got in the consumer digital market. Sounds just about as ridiculous as the camera I had that stored pictures on an internal floppy disk.

Tyler Kurth

Your ancient digital camera videos are engrossing in all the right ways. Love it!

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Anonymous

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