Apple Quicktake 150 Pix

Franny Wentzel: 22nd Feb 2009 - 03:53 GMT

A few more from a recent snowstorm

Peter: 22nd Feb 2009 - 05:52 GMT

hahaha, cool... how old is that camera? it reminds me of my old cellphone cam, which took watercolor-y shots, too... the neon in the last shot is neat...

Franny Wentzel: 22nd Feb 2009 - 06:04 GMT

The QuickTake 100 came out in 1994, the 150 in 1995 and the 200 in 1996. The QuickTake 100 had been featured on Modern Marvels as one of the first colour consumer digital cameras made.

Looked like a set of binoculars or a canteen. Had a whopping megabyte of flash memory. The cameras didn't do very well in the marketplace and the QuickTake line was dropped in '87 along with the Newton and LaserWriter lines upon the return of Steve Jobs.

Mime: 23rd Feb 2009 - 04:45 GMT

I love how the flash reflects the light from the snowflakes.

This reminds me of a shot I took in Sydney of a large fig that was out of focus, but the flash picked up little specks of dust that were in the focus range. I liked that photo better than the properly-focused shot I took a second or two later.

Mime: 23rd Feb 2009 - 05:20 GMT

If I may spam a little more. As there is nowhere in town to get my Holga negs relatively cheaply printed and I don't know how to do it myself yet, I did a little improv and came up with this:

Basically, I set my tv to av mode (to get the blue screen) pasted a piece of paper over the screen and taped the negative to the paper. Then I took a photo with my digital camera.
Shh.

Jamie: 23rd Feb 2009 - 09:34 GMT

@Mime I'm pretty sure thats how the professionals do it. They just use more expensive televisions, paper and tape ;-)

Jamie: 23rd Feb 2009 - 09:36 GMT

oh and these apple quicktake photos are proper nice. i wonder if early digicams are gonna become the lomos of the future? I think i'm gonna stock up now and wait till they're selling on eBay for $200 a pop.

Franny Wentzel: 23rd Feb 2009 - 10:54 GMT

One problem with the older Digicams is in having a computer that will connect to them or take their cards. I still run a Mac with serial ports and OS9 and thus can still use a QuickTake camera.

The QuickTake 200 uses 5 volt SmartMedia cards which are no longer in production and which no new card readers can handle. A lot of older cameras would likely be in the same boat.

Jamie: 23rd Feb 2009 - 13:04 GMT

This is sadly true. That's the trouble with modern progress. Take a 30 year old defunct russian 35mm camera, stick a roll of film in and bob's your uncle. Although it is getting more and more difficult (not to mention expensive) to get 35mm film developed these days.

But yeah. Try and find a functioning computer with a serial port, or one that'll run the oddball proprietary software you used to need to get your photos off those early digital cameras. It's not easy. I have a couple of old pocket toycams that i'd love to use, but even if i knew where the mini-cd was with the device drivers on i very much doubt it would work with anything newer than Windows 95.

I'm pretty sure that in the distant future archaeolgists, rather than digging up broken bits of pottery and whatnot will be busy building makeshift memory card readers whilst piecing together long defunct codecs in order to view our holiday snaps and blog posts

Franny Wentzel: 23rd Feb 2009 - 20:14 GMT

Methinks they'll be more interested in recovering our vast storehouses of pr0n...

Jamie: 24th Feb 2009 - 00:21 GMT

Oh i'm sure they'll have their own porn in THE FUTURE. It'll be all chrome plated and futuristic future porn.

Korpil: 29th Jul 2009 - 21:41 GMT

Wow! Those look like the kind of pictures you could take with my daughter's rugged toy camera!

Franny Wentzel: 30th Jul 2009 - 00:58 GMT

Check out this recent post...

Franny Wentzel: 1st Aug 2009 - 12:01 GMT

Welcome people from www.tuaw.com/2009/07/29/retro-apple-the-quicktake-100-digital-camera/....

See above post for links to more QuickTake pictures...

Alito: 1st Aug 2009 - 16:51 GMT

Wait a minute. You said "The QuickTake 100 came out in 1994, the 150 in 1995 and the 200 in 1996" and then said "The cameras didn't do very well in the marketplace and the QuickTake line was dropped in '87". Not nitpicking, just confused. Did you mean '97?

Franny Wentzel: 1st Aug 2009 - 17:47 GMT

I didn't even notice that till you mentioned it. Damn this dilsexya... Yeah, 1997 was when the line was dropped...

Matt: 8th Apr 2013 - 06:07 GMT

I have a Quicktake 150. It easily hooks up to windows. Just get a 8pin to 9pin serial cable and this software http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=74152 and it was working fine on a Windows 2000 computer...should work on newer computers as well. If you don't have a serial port, a usb to 9pin serial adapter should work. I bought a Quicktake 200 in 1998 for $250 and used it for several years...the serial downloading was painfully slow (much slower than the 150), but a card reader just takes a few seconds.

Franny Wentzel: 8th Apr 2013 - 15:46 GMT

@Matt

By the time I was able to find a card reader for my QT-200, I'd already moved on to a better camera.

Let's make your link le clickable...

members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=74152

Legacy Macintosh drivers can be found here...

macdrivermuseum.net/scan.shtml