Prompted by the QuickTake video, I became curious about what was in those photos, so I scrolled all the way up and was concerned to see that none of the images had previews. I’ve long maintained my QuickTake 150 photos in iPhoto and later Photos, but since they’re out of sight at the very top of my library, I hadn’t thought about them in years. It was a serious score, and I ended up with quite a collection of gear, including the camera. I wouldn’t have bought the QuickTake 150 on my own-it cost $700 new-but I had written a white paper for Apple about the company’s Internet strategy, so I asked my contacts to pay me in hardware at internal prices. The photos were small-640 by 480 pixels-and of rather poor quality, but the freedom afforded by not worrying about wasting film or waiting to develop it was life-changing. I used a QuickTake 150 for a few years starting in mid-1995, and it was an eye-opener (see “ Digital Photographs as a Way of Life,” 2 October 1995). It wasn’t the first digital camera, but Time magazine called it “the first consumer digital camera.” A video about it and its successors, the QuickTake 150 and rather different QuickTake 200, recently made the rounds on a private mailing list I’m on. GraphicConverter 11 Rescues Ancient QuickTake 150 PhotosĪpple is now known for the cameras in the iPhone, but the first Apple camera was the QuickTake 100, released in 1994. #1652: OS updates, DPReview shuttered, LucidLink cloud storage.#1653: Apple Music Classical review, Authory service for writers, WWDC 2023 dates announced.1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blind.#1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook.#1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Ventura.
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