Apple QuickTake

Apple QuickTake was a family of digital cameras from Apple.

Apple launched in collaboration with Kodak, the model QuickTake 100 1994 on the market, it was one of the first affordable digital cameras for the mass market. The model then cost the equivalent of about 750 euros. The successor was the very similar QuickTake 150

The cameras QuickTake 100/150 were connected via a serial interface with the Macintosh. After installation of additional software ( floppy were in ) the camera was controlled via a Mac OS control panel and transfer the images to your Mac.

As accessories were disks ( content: Extensions, Control Panel, a simple image processing) with a serial cable and plastic lenses for close-ups. The three AA batteries had to be specially purchased.

There was a small monochrome LCD display that provided information on the battery status, the number of shots, the selected resolution and the flash mode on the back of both models. The representation internally stored photos was not possible.

At the corners of the screen were buttons for self-timer, resolution, flash mode and (recessed) erase function.

The last digital camera from Apple was created in collaboration with Fujifilm and was known as the QuickTake 200 She appeared in 1996.

Production of QuickTake cameras was set to Apple shortly after the return of Steve Jobs in 1997.

Data format

To view and open the QuickTake images a system expansion is necessary, it was only for the classic Mac OS and Windows 95. The data format ( QTK ) is proprietary, and is no longer supported. Such images can not be opened so under newer operating systems like Mac OS X. The Apple Finder is after all a preview. The Graphic Converter program can also open QuickTake images from version 6 on Mac OS X.