Retro Review: Apple's Digital Camera - QuickTake 200 (Circa 1996)
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2011
- It's amazing how much technology has advanced over the past 15 years isn't it?!
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There is a whole lot of misinformation in this video but I would like to point out just a few misnomers that are still around today. The QuickTake 100, (as well as the 150), was sold in both Mac and Windows versions, not just for Mac. Also, it was not made by Kodak, Kodak designed the camera and Chinon manufactured it. These were based on Kodak's own DC-40.
The only difference between the QuickTake 100 and 150 was that the JPEG compression on the 150 was improved to allow double the amount of pictures stored on the camera's internal memory. Apple even allowed you to send your QT-100 in to them and they would install new firmware essentially turning it into a QT-150. The upgraded camera was relabeled by Apple as the QuickTake 100 Plus.
The QuickTake 200 was made by Fujifilm for Apple, Samsung and their own model, the DS-7. Each camera had it own unique firmware, Apple's being the best.
The QuickTake 200 was said to only work with Macs, but you could use Fujifilm's DS-7 software to upload the pictures to your Windows computer via the serial port, or simply just use a card reader.
I owned the QuickTake 100 and QuickTake 200, probably one of the first digital consumer cameras in Switzerland. I remember presenting the 200 to our photography class at University. I tried to convince the other students that I was giving them a glimpse to the future. They didn‘t believe me back then. 🙂
The red dot on the screen though made me think my LCD has a dead pixel or something
No photo examples? Bogus.
it might not even work anymore...
@@BenPfei yeah
just came from his video on the iPod nano. literally looked it up to find out more about it and here I am on another snazzy labs video
Point-and-shoot cameras had viewfinders in different locations than the lens, it was pretty normal.
Nobody "Always asks you if it would be so cool if Apple made a digital camera"
lul.
@philliple97 No I'm talking about the camera resolution. Not the display.
By the way, taking inflation into consideration, $599 in 1992 was about $920. WOW!
I love these retro reviews. Do more of them!
Very informative man....keep doing what you do!
I bought mine on clearance in Feb 1998 for $250
. I tell people that I had a 300 Kilopixel digital camera
*****
Either something like *huh*, or "Is that really good?"
Keep these up Quinn love em
Great review again
@kenhermans Sorry! I would have, but I didn't have a SmartCard, so I couldn't get any pics taken... :(
Very nice review!
Keep going with the retro reviews man! makes your channel unique!
Hi how are you ?
You are legend in this channel
That dead pixel on your camera made me think something was wrong with my display.
so....these are the only videos i like at your channel......cuz its a new thing..to review old products ..on youtube..so keep up the good thing!!
These were fantastic at the time for getting photos to people across the internet. We used the piss out of them at work.
The viewfinder being on the top isn't much different from how most cameras over history have worked, it isn't "useless" it just isn't as accurate as an SLR. Just look at TLR or rangefinder cameras, or even point & shoot and disposable cameras, the viewfinders all have separate lenses from the taking lens which is going to give you slightly off-centre images.
@bigdima3 How so?
My first digital camera was a Sony Mavica that took giant 3.5 inch floppy disks! I could store a whopping 1.35 MEGABYTES of photos! Woooooo! LOL
First QuickTake came out in 1994 not 92. I actually got one today. It is a very solid device and fun to play around with
Nice video!
The term for when the image on the lens is different from the viewfinder is called parallax. This is a common character of all non-slr non-digital cameras. It was not unusual. This is why viewfinders had those corner brackets to tell you what the lens actually captured.
i like that when you review old things you say "back in the day, there was no *****" LOL :P
It's called parallax error when the viewfinder doesn't match the lens position
Sorry I'm a photo nerd 🤓
Awesome! Thanks for sharing these awesome videos. This is added to MyAppleSpace > Launchpad > Mobile > Gadgets
just bought one of these
Cool
when you get back from your trip you can make retro reviews of everything you own lol.
@robert19lgg Really?!
Comparing this and an iphone7 plus camera would be fun to watch.
steve sasson worked at kodak and invented the digital camera in 1975 but film was still being sold like crazy so it wasnt until the 90s that kodak started releasing it into the wild because now everyone was switching also thats why kodak was still behind all the digital cameras consumer and pro ones in the 90s
This camera is based on Fujifilm camera.
4:15 - Lens has *no impact* on pixel resolution. This camera may have similar sensor to iPhone 4, but definitely not the lens.
It is fascinating to see how technology has come on in leaps and bounds with the influx of digital. Some of these early digital cameras were absolutely ground breaking in their day and totally changed the world of photography for ever. There is one side of this medium though that for whatever unknown (to me ) reason has never moved forward the way the digital hand held camera has moved on. If you look at the way the cameras have evolved even in the last 10 tears with huge improvements in auto focus, ISO and the MP sensors available is incredible except for WEBCAMS. Webcams appear to have almost sat still for 15 years, with nothing really of any interest to come along other than the increase in resolution in most cases to FH and in rare cases 4K. There are still so many webcams out there that capture in 720 and not even in 1080.
What has gone wrong here? I for one cannot understand the reason behind this as if anything, I would have thought the webcam would have been an ideal medium to progress even faster than hand helds. Why don't we have webcams that can be hand held, that can use WiFi as a link and have 20MP resolution, they could have doubled up as hand held giving great quality stills and video. Why did they stagnate?
They need to make another so it is used just for pics and vids. No phone calls, face time, games, just photo and video.
this should be a retro iphone case. asap!
When will the make a game system?
Could we see a picture from it?
I wonder what the difference were between those revisions.
wow it makes better photos than our school camera
@ 5:27 There were LEDs, the NES from 1985 had an LED so yeah, LEDS.
6:09 I still use a Olympus D490-ZOOM camera that uses SmartMedia (SM) cards (i use a 16mb SM card)
+Khoi Sousa why? haha
Mark Edmondson It's a great camera! And i love it better than my new Cannon N camera
Quicktake200 have very nice qualité for 1996 !!!!!!!!
Smartmedia expensive on ebay? Good to know ;)
(I don't think it's actually true though, they were readily available until not that long ago)
I still have mine.
no test shots?
apple should make another digital camera i will be awesome :)
@arrow1archer actually, that would be a question...
i think it takes better pics than the iSight camera of the iPod touch 4g
I actually have a smart card 8MB. I would like to send you for your Apple 200
Won't work. Your card is 3.3V, the QuickTake 200 requires a 5V card.
Cool camera I love apple products the old and today but apple use to make interesting products back in the old day l love the old apple products as apple made heaps of products I wish they made this sorts of stuff again like cameras and printers then people would love apple even more like me
I'm watching from the future
So is the ipod touch 5g a replacement of this device with all the things an ipod can do...?
sorry if i get this wrong but you said there were no laptops let you reviewed a powerbook from 1992 when this camera was made in 1996, not only that there were those bulky win 3.1/ 95 laptops
@KoreanClownWalk How could he? There for serial ports for the old PowerMac's and the SmartCard Media card, like he said, he doesn't have.
1996 ^.^ Digital camera, flat display ^^ amazing !!!
Yes it's incredible and amazing, very nice Camera But in 1996...It's expensive in 1996 ?
Theres a tiny red dot I think your camera you filmed this with may have processor issues
That is probably an LED, they've been around for quite a while.
Someone's got a hot pixel!!!!!!!
Will these take 128 Mb cards?
Roll of film: 24 exposures, 36 exposures
I love how after the 1996 camera focuses on the paper his camera needs to focus on the camera.
That's because now we've got iPhones with built in cameras and whatnot
film has 24 to 36 frames on the roll
You could also get a roll of 12 exposures.
I bought a used car a while back and in the center console there were three smartmedia cards there was two 8mb's and a 32mb. Now i know what uses them
Brian Nguyen What model of car?
The QuickTake was not released in 1992, but in 1994. In 1992, Apple was only making plans for the QuickTake.
oh yea true
I found a Smartcard at my local Goodwill unopened haha
still have to
Totally :D.
1. The newton h100 used regular AAA batteries.
2. An offset viewfinder is not unusual nor weird. Rangefinders like a lot of Leica cameras have them. They are not useless. Even cold-shoe add on viewfinders have been around for about a century, maybe more.
3. Even though the resolution is the same as earlier iPhone facetime cameras, the sensor obviously is not. You correctly mentioned the size difference, but the biggest difference is the sensor technology. The quicktake being CCD and the iPhone being CMOS. That is a world of difference and definitely NOT the same in any way shape or form.
4. Yes that WAS an LED. LEDs have been available and used for decades.
Lot of erroneous assumptions and mistakes..
this is WAY of topic but didint apple make a video game console at one time? i think it was called the pippin or somthing...
"Pretty darn cool!!"
Hahaha, i still have one of these that i got new in 1996 i think, still works but have not used it in probably 20+ years
i never new apple did a camera!!
Watching this in Oct 2023
They need to calm down with their prices today too.
I bet it shoots in 1080p and puts my Canon T3i to shame.
look at the the stem of the apple why is it connected
how much did this cost $1000?
quinn you have a hot pixel.
you should fix that
I want
the sound he makes at 2:29...
What sound did he make exactly...?
8:40 "closer... closer... closer... closer !!!
you could get a smart media card to micro sd adapter
You could, but it wouldn't work in that camera.
oh ok
Actually I use the same method on my Powershot 600 and it works. Edit: SD not micro SD, But you might as well put a micro SD in an SD adapter and then in a cf adapter. works too
Huh???
You made a mistake at the start you said "people always ask me, Quinn wouldn't it be cool if apple made a digital camera"
You mean people always tell me
apple needed to calm down with their prices back then.
If I had a dollar for every time you said "back in the day"...
The extremely high digital resolution of modern cameras are almost always useless. The neighbouring pixels are just blurred together anyway. It all comes down to the cheap tiny lenses.
@ethantechshow Probably eBay or something...
About 600.
this is why apple got components from Samsung for the iphone
basic lol this is advanced compared to our first one here..which we still have
There's a pink dot on your video
My. My. My.