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.

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[LGR]

If you'd like to directly check out the photos I took for this video, here's an album for ya:

[porklaser]

This camera was positioned at an amazing time for desktop publishing. Being able to take pictures and insert them in to your publication in minutes was a real game changer. Used these with pagemaker for an all-digital yearbook and school paper back in '95!

[EPMTUNES]

I appreciate that the first reason that the camera won't take pictures is because it's not on.

[donaldklopper]

I actually used this camera at the free ads paper I worked for around 1996. Was mostly used to take photos of used vehicles for sale, to then publish a small photo with description of said vehicle in print. Quality was good enough, and there was no film development step needed. It was a great little business enabler at the time. Even the 8 shot limitation wasn't an issue since clients would drive in to our premises and we'd take two shots.and quickly download, or our consultants would drive to the client and get a couple of shots of the item for sale and get back to the office to download photos. How far we've come.

[dav]

Thank you Clint. My father passed a week ago, and your videos help me get my mind off my troubles. Thanks for making me laugh.

[jackkraken]

Now take a photo of an iphone X and post it on those conspiracy sites.

[Khanemis]

You have a rare talent of being really genuine in what you are doing. Many people who are into the same stuff as you often appear as being in a forced pose to appear interesting. But you, my good sir, are a rare exception. For example those "new old" photos of yours are such a treat. Capturing such timeless sceneries with a period appropriate technology is something completely different than just slapping silly filter on a selfie.
Anyway a great review, as always. Those first digital cameras are such a fascinating topic. Thank you.

[harrisarts]

I remember these. I helped my neighbor take his business completely digital in about 1994... he was a Real Estate Appraiser. He was buying a roll of film shooting a handful of photo for each property and then spending a few hours at the local quick print store waiting to do each report. To go from that to one of these cameras and basically instant pictures (for the 1990’s). It was amazing...

[ADVChina]

Love this stuff. I'm scared you will inspire me to start hoarding useless crap. Thanks.

[BaronVonQuiply]

It'll never catch on.

Your money is better invested in this hot new energy company out of Houston.

[tfangel]

I still have mine, but it was the Sony Mavica that had removable media that made me really enjoy digital photography. I carried a box of floppies around when using it. Good times.

[grantking]

I could smell my elementary school's computer lab when you turned on that mac.

[mrmerhtin]

I feel that one of these days LGR will find a pot of gold for just a dollar at one his GoodWills

[scottjanssen]

I was the QA lead at Apple on this project! What memories. Like the CIA employee who approached our booth at MacWorld and asked if it would be possible to hook up the camera's output to some sort of radio transmitter so the photos could be uploaded in real time to an overhead aircraft or satellite. Not very practical and it made us wonder what they were planning on using it for! More fun was the guy from Penthouse magazine who was interested in it for test shots. Several of us guys from the Apple booth volunteered to come to a Penthouse shoot with a prototype so they could check it out. Of course that didn't end up happening, but the prospect of it did inject some energy into our booth. Some interesting bugs occurred with both the software that ran on your Mac and in the firmware that ran on the camera. For example, early prototypes of the camera could be bricked by shooting a picture with every pixel having a value of zero (totally black). Then there was the bug shortly before we shipped whereby using the software would eventually corrupt your boot volume. That was due to the software issuing a "close" command on a file twice, which caused corruption back in those days. One correction; the camera software was available from Apple for both the Mac and for Windows. That's actually how the corruption bug occurred; the programmer was writing in Windows and cross-compiling for Macintosh and wasn't a native Mac programmer. So he didn't realize that closing a file twice on the Mac could be so catastrophic; apparently it wasn't so dangerous a mistake in Windows. Great memories; thank you for posting this video!

[steve_ire]

"Too far ahead of its time and no one knew what to do with it"


Always the way with technology. I get the impression that VR is currently going through that phase.

[thejackofclubs]

i remember using this camera in highschool in 2004 in my multimedia class. we used it to learn how to use photoshop. a school of 4000 students in a rich suburb and one 10 year old digital camera to share between everybody. the schools millions in budget clearly went to the football team.

[Nitro_]

What great timing!! I was just in the mood!!

[kmotin]

The suzuki samurai looks cool, still looks cool

[slinkyfpv]

I just can't understand why someone would dislike this video.

[katherinem]

Even though I don't understand a lot of the techno stuff, I like to watch your videos because they are so relaxing.