Apple Digital Camera?
12.1.2005 – 1:42 pm | by paul
There is a story today over at TUAW which speculates that Apple is working on a digital camera. I’m not sure if I buy it. There are a lot of good cameras out there, I’m not sure what Apple would hope to add. I think it’s more realistic to hope for an Apple PDA / phone.
Another interesting note… apparently Apple has already produced a digital camera. It was called the QuickTake, and it was made from 1994 - 1997. I don’t remember it at all. Anyone out there actually have one?
December 1st, 2005 at 2:31 pm
I had the same camera but made by Fuji, it was when digital cameras were very much in their infancy, 640 x 480 pixels so the pictures weren’t great but seemed okay at the time.
December 1st, 2005 at 8:10 pm
Hmmm… Seem to be going for pretty cheap on eBay. I may grab one. (Great, now I’ve just jacked up the price… =)
I have an old Mac SE gathering dust in my closet… (I found it on the street, with an external 20MB HD, & “stock” keyboard & mouse — all works fine, I think runs OS 6 or 7, I can’t remember.)
December 2nd, 2005 at 12:51 am
Yes I had one, It was a nice unit. if my memory serves me correctly it was made for Apple by Fuji. Res was 640×480, the screen was bright and clear and the battery life was better than most.
The most impressive aspect of the Quicktake 200 was the colour rendition — even bright reds were produced fairly accurately.
December 19th, 2005 at 3:26 pm
Do not forget the other two incredible looking (for those days, it was 1994 or so) cameras released by Apple before the QuickTake 200, the QuickTake 100 and 150.