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Posted by: lighting on 2008-07-17 22:05:37
A: The Apple QuickTake 100 - a.k.a. one of the first mass-market digital cameras.
32 pictures at 320x240 or 8 pictures at 640x480 high res :lol:
It came in the original box with the manuals, AC adapter, NiCd batteries, and the leather "camera condom" (a.k.a. quick take case) that apple marketed to go with it. A quick trip to Mac Driver Museum and I had it up and running on my G3.
The previous owner must have been Canadian, eh? All the pictures on the camera when I got it were of Canadian geography projects.
http://elgatodesign.net/temp/img8.jpg
Glorious Hi-res shot of a parking lot after I put batteries in the camera.
http://elgatodesign.net/temp/img24.jpg
Holy aliasing and compression artifacts, batman!
http://elgatodesign.net/temp/img25.jpg
That's all I've got for now - any other quicktake owners here?
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2008-07-17 23:09:40
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Posted by: macgreg on 2008-07-18 00:12:10
I have a QuickTake 100.
Haven't used it yet though...
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Posted by: TylerEss on 2008-07-18 00:29:51
I loved my QuickTake 150! Sold it on eBay after I got my Kodak DC-50 because I was tired of having to hook up via serial cable.
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Posted by: MacMan on 2008-07-18 08:55:09
I've got a Quicktake 150 that I got off eBay for a few quid a while ago. It's a funky piece of kit and I have taken a few gloriously low resolution pictures with it. Mine came with the original box and accessories, and it had obviously been owned by a college before as it had several pictures of students pulling faces still in the memory.
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Posted by: 4seasonphoto on 2008-07-18 09:05:02
I bought one of those things when they were new, but it's long gone now: I probably sold it somewhere along the way. I also had the optional closeup lens attachment.
OTOH, I bought my latest camera the other week: Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W300. 13M+ decent-quality pixels in a compact, titanium-colored package the size of a can of Altoids. Cost me a lot less than the QuickTake did too!
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Posted by: techfury90 on 2008-07-18 09:10:01
I bought one of those things when they were new, but it's long gone now: I probably sold it somewhere along the way. I also had the optional closeup lens attachment.
OTOH, I bought my latest camera the other week: Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W300. 13M+ decent-quality pixels in a compact, titanium-colored package the size of a can of Altoids. Cost me a lot less than the QuickTake did too! How are the Cyber-Shots anyway? I've always wondered.. I've got an alpha, but its more of a Minolta product (as evidenced by the fact it takes CompactFlash).
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Posted by: 4seasonphoto on 2008-07-18 09:28:24
How are the Cyber-Shots anyway? I've always wondered.. I've got an alpha, but its more of a Minolta product (as evidenced by the fact it takes CompactFlash). It's my first-ever Sony camera, and for a camera this small, I think it's great, seems well-made, even has a metal tripod socket. My first W300 had flakey optics and looked noticeably fuzzier on the lefthand side than on the right, but #2 seems just fine. Nice luminous quality to the photos with little effort, and the greens, blues and oranges look great, if a bit idealized.
I don't like Memory Stick or it's variants too much but fortunately, I won't have to buy many of the things, because at my camera's max quality settings, I can fit 700+ photos onto a 4 gigabyte card, and that's more than I'm likely to use in a single day.
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Posted by: Christopher on 2008-07-18 12:31:48
Does it really weigh 1lb.?
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Posted by: QuadSix50 on 2008-07-18 12:42:16
Nice! I recently acquired a Quicktake 200, but it only worked for a little bit. After doing some research, it seems there is a faulty fuse that needs to be replaced with a soldering job. I my do this sometime soon (would probably have been a nice project for the RetroChallenge :🙂 ).
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Posted by: JRL on 2008-07-18 13:37:40
Nice!
There is a QuickTake 100 sitting in the IT head tech's office at school, but she wants to keep it even though it's just sitting there right now.
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Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2008-07-18 16:12:37
i have a working quicktake 200 that i used for many years before i got my PowerShot G2.
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Posted by: iMac600 on 2008-07-19 05:30:36
I have a QuickTake 150 in box with all cables and attachments. Only really used it once with the Windows driver software. A novelty, but it chews through batteries and has an extremely slow interface. I wouldn't use it today, that's for sure.
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Posted by: Scott Baret on 2008-07-19 10:08:29
I have a QuickTake but have yet to use it, mostly because my serial port equipped Macs I have up and running right now are all Classics and Pluses.
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