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Q: what weighs only one pound so you can take it anywhere.

Q: what weighs only one pound so you can take it anywhere. Software 14 posts Jul 18, 2008 — Jul 19, 2008

#1 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 - 06:05

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?

#2 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 - 07:09

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#3 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 - 08:12

I have a QuickTake 100.

Haven't used it yet though...

#4 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 - 08:29

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.

#5 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 - 16:55

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.

#6 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 - 17:05

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!

#7 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 - 17:10

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).

#8 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 - 17:28

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.

#9 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 - 20:31

Does it really weigh 1lb.?

#10 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 - 20:42

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 :

#11 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 - 21:37

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.

#12 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 - 00:12

i have a working quicktake 200 that i used for many years before i got my PowerShot G2.

#13 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 - 13:30

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.

#14 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 - 18:08

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.