Apple's ORIGINAL camera is NOT the iPhone
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- Apple's First and LAST digital camera that was not an iPhone, The Apple Quicktake, is one of the world's most obscure cameras. Created in 1994, it left a lasting legacy within Apple and future Apple products. Join us in uncovering the story of one of the world’s most obscure cameras.
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0:00 The Obscure Apple QuickTake 100
0:43 1990s a Challenging Time For Apple after firing Steve Jobs
1:16 Apple's INSANE 90's products
1:29 Apple Gaming Console Pippin (AVERT YOUR EYES)
1:42 Apple PowerCD
1:56 Apple Message Pad
2:20 They were losing ground in the industry
2:50 The APPLE QuickTake 100
3:31 Production with Eastman Kodak
4:07 Apple releases the camera in 1994
4:32 What's inside this camera and images!
5:48 Stories about how hard it is to get images off this camera
6:38 The Apple QuickTake 150 and 200
7:20 The AppleQuicktake 150 we purchased
7:55 The DOWNFALL of the Apple QuickTake and the return of Steve Jobs
8:52 Apple QuickTake memorialized on iPhone
9:24 A SCAM?
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Kodak DCS 420 - the first DSLR. A hacked Nikon film body. Kodak made monochrome and infrared versions. Very rare.
@Frame Voyager wich song did you use in 8:02 chapter "The DOWNFALL of the Apple..."
Man, your narrative is ON POINT! Absolute hooked since you started the forgotten cameras series and now every new video brings me a smile
Appreciate it 😅 with how much everyone loves that series wanted to expand into other areas and not be limited to just Abandoned cameras! Glad you're liking it!
I used to own 2 Apple Quick Take 200's, never did edit the photos but it was wild seeing how advanced it was for it's age.
It is crazy they made these that early in the 90s
@@FrameVoyager my fav was the big ass Sony cameras schools had in the 90s. Massive camera, terrible photo, but hey, it was great for ID photos and shit at the time.
Man the topics you cover and your content is so underrated, love it man!
😅😅 appreciate it! Hoping at some point it will take off a little bit more! But I'll just keep plugging along. Fun making all the content!
It was not obscure. My father had two or three of them. I was given the original and I loved how I could take a photo of a fan in motion and it was frozen in the photo with no blur.
I have to give you huge props to the sound design and mix in your videos, thank you so much for putting care into your work and bringing high quality edutainment for us cinematographers :)
Appreciate it! Really try to do the best I can with the audio side of the videos!
It is not the only one. They released the second version, the Quicktake 200, which was based on a camera by Fuji at the time.
Yep! Talked about it in the video. Technically only camera "series" they've ever made.
Even though I work on movie sets now, I studied photography and at school we had a class dedicated to old tech. Among the first dslrs and other oddities were one 150. I mean, it must have been revolutionary at the time but shooting with it in 2010 was pretty underwhelming to be honest.
Oh that's cool! Yeah, I love all the random products and bizarre tech. This camera is just weird to me. Such a strange camera design 😅
your channel have such a good quality, wonder it was 1m subs, keep it up.
YES! I know about iSight. It's a WEBCAM, so fight me if you think that's a real camera and not some rehoused product 😅
So wild to see a whole video covering these cameras I have just sitting in a drawer here 😅
IIRC Apple, Logitech, Chinon (before they were bought by Kodak), Compaq, and Kodak sort of all worked on the camera and the sensor in the QuickTake 100 and 150 is basically the same KAF-0400 in the DC40/Fotoman Pixtura masked down to 640x480 for some reason. Digitalkamera Museum has lots of juicy info on it.
Apple had many failures after the departure of Jobs. As much as I'm not a fan of him as an individual, he certainly had a better understanding of business and the market than the people who replaced him at Apple...
💯💯💯 I think he also grew being away from apple. Fascinating history and this camera got caught in the middle of it 😂
They are doing OK I hope🙂
"Being ahead of your time is just as bad as being behind it. It's the stuff that is with the time it is in that makes the money."
I don't know who said it first. I remember it from a making of video about Alien where Ridley Scott uttered those cautionary words.
It's a good line for sure and very relevant to the camera industry too!
I just realized... it's probably from the making of Bladerunner I heard it. That would make more sense at least, as Bladerunner bombed and Alien was a success..
I just wanted to correct myself.
@@jmalmsten good to know!
The golden era of apple "in the industry" of graphic professionals was 1990 - 1995. It was the only period that apples were seriously better (than pc) for graphic processing.
WELL TECHNICALLY 🤓 the ipod touch had a camera, lol
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My Dad's work at the time (a non-profit) used Macs, and they bought one of these to use for desktop publishing purposes, as well as print ID badges (oddly enough). They could take photos and easily import them, manipulate them, and use them for whatever they needed. We lived in Rochester, NY at the time, the headquarters of Kodak, and if I remember correct, they got a sweetheart deal on one because of being a non-profit. I can't tell you if Kodak had any part in that, but they were a benefactor to the organization.
Our high school had the black and white version. It worked great on the paired mac ii lc
Haven't started the video but I'm excited to hear about items like the iPad, iPod Touch and the iPod Nano!
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I had the, ahem, pleasure of using a Quicktake 150 back in 1998. It wasn't the first digital camera I'd ever used (actually got my hands, briefly, on a Nikon/Kodak DCS420 in 1995) but it definitely was the crappiest. I don't recall transferring images being a problem (back then) but the quality was akin to a bad Zoom call these days ;-)
My dad bough me the QT100 when it was 500DM (Germany 1995) on sale. I was very happy and shot so many pictures.. My brother and i did stop-motion (claymation) since the camera could take pictures directly over the serial-line and that would only take around 10s. Fun times... Sadly my QT100 died when the batteries leaked and i could not get it to work again. I bought a QT150 off of eBay a few years ago (when they were still cheap).
Some of the early digital cameras were awful. I am thinking no white balance, low res and sometimes needing a weird serial cable to download the photos.
Another great one! Very enjoyable series.
Glad to hear it! Wanted to branch out a bit and start a few new series to be able to cover some other topics! ABANDONED camera series still has like 30 more cameras to cover so it will be around for a while too haha
@@FrameVoyager You’re just nailing everything in your videos. Scripting, delivery, research, b-roll: all perfectly done.
@@gravitymediapro Appreciate it! Hopefully, it will all take off here at some point!
What was that design format? The Sega camera had it as well and now their are thermal cameras for hunting that have that shape.
On the Quicktake100 model, the memory can be cleared at the touch of a button. (bottom left of the display)
However, all photos are deleted at the same time. a semperte selection is not possible.
Therefore no computer is necessary for deleting
I had a quick take 100 when I was a kid, my dad bought it at j and r music world and brought it home when I was 12/13 years old. It held less than 15 pictures if I remember, and the pictures were terrible, it went back in the box and sat in a closet for 15 years before being given away at a yard sale for $5.
Did I mention it was super expensive, I think it cost almost as much as our Sony hi8 handycam that we used constantly for 10 years.
Pretty sure LGR has a hands on video on this camera
I have been interested for a long time in cameras with weird and quirky designs and features and I saw a Quicktake 150 years ago and when I saw it, I thought it looked like a cross between an instant camera I could have seen coming from Polaroid and a mini projector.
It's pretty out there 👀 kind of cool I was able to purchase one for the series. Looking for some more obscure cameras to cover here soon!.
@@FrameVoyager What about the Sega Digio SJ-1, the only camera Sega ever made? I am not actually sure how obscure it is, but I only found out about it 3 years ago.
@@DynamixWarePro sounds obscure to me 👀
Not the *only* camera. There also was the the iSight.
If you want to count a webcam that apple probably just repackaged that's fine 😂
You could say the same thing about the QuickTake.
@@TheBasementChannel well of course, they did work with Kodak to develop the ccd sensors for the cameras. But apple also developed all of the software and the proprietary file types these ages were stored at. Most cameras companies don't make their own sensors. But at least apple put some actual work into this and it was one of the original digital cameras ever made 🤷♂️
While the Newton was vastly superior to everything else (it helped our transition away from the Rolodex and led the way for the Handspring), you're right, Apple's computer lineup in the late 90s was lackluster - which is why we went with the PowerTowerPro225 that offered better power and features than the Performa or PowerMac at a much lower price.
For sure! Newton was great but it was still ahead of it's time.
I do not use my cell phone to take photos, I take all my photos with an actual camera and I do not plan to change. In my personal opinion my pictures are superior then those taken with a cell phone.
I saw this camera when I was in grade 5 and I got really interested in digital camera that day.
That's awesome! Even though it isn't that good of a camera it's still pretty cool, especially for the time period it was made
@@FrameVoyager agree, it was amazing that Apple actually made it. For the longest time I thought they rebadge another brand. I got one a few years ago.
Just a suggestion, you should do a video on Sony formats for video/photo.. betacam, beta digital, minidv, minidisc, micromv, floppy, mini cd, memory stick, and etc. Sony I alway admire that they just keep trying to push different storage formats.
@@allanau that's a good idea! Getting into all of that stuff here at some point for sure!
My primary school had a couple of weird digital cameras. One of these (i think the 150 model) Aswell as a sony marvicta then later one of those horrible kodak easy share things. Then also a couple of honestly pretty crap VHS C camcorders. Luckily for me, i was well known as the techy kid of the school and could pretty much just borrow them whenever i wanted. As a result i have heaps of photos still saved.
👀 nice! Honestly hard to find many photos from this camera haha. Probably will cover the mavica here at some point
I did not buy the Quicktake. I had a Sony VX-1000 digital video camera that could take stills a la 640x480. I used a frame grabber to get the photo in my Mac or take them off of tape digitally. I was doing with analog video cameras before this.
first digital camera I shot with
It probably also didn't help much that film was still the most popular format until well into the early 2000's.
With scanners somewhat more affordable and plenty of quick developers around every corner. Yeahh good luck with a slow early 90's digital camera with super low res and a terrible image quality.
Not really obscure from my perspective. I guess you had to be a photographer in the '90s. :-) The 150 was my first digital camera...
Haha probably 😅 funny thing is most people I talk with never have heard of the camera. I'll get a bit more obscure as the series goes on 😉
Interesting 🤔
Always thought it was a strange camera 😅
Well the title is not that accurate... technically the iSight camera is indeed a camera... also if you go as far as calling a phone a camera you might as well include their tablets, notebooks and all in one computers that all got cameras in them.
So this was the original potato camera!
😂 pretty much
Not even a single mention of the iSight. Yeesh.
An oversight it seems
The webcam? 😂 Mehhhh I thought about mentioning it but it was released in 2005 and it's a webcam 😅
Bad title. This was not the only camera they made that wasn’t iphone duhhh
What... The iSight? 😅 Don't really count a webcam
Nope, wrong.
They had another one called iSight.
You'll excuse me if I don't include a "webcam" that probably was a rehoused product 😅 Gonna say that probably doesn't count as an actual camera product
@@FrameVoyager I'm way too pedantic to not point it out. But I agree, the isight isn't indeed a good product, nor a real "camera" 😆
@@theonlinething1039 😂😂😂 I totally get it haha. Tbh, I knew this would happen when I decided not to even mention it lol.
@@FrameVoyager I still own an iSight, and in my opinion it‘s just fair not to mention it. It‘s image quality is just bad, but I used it anyways cause it came with my Powermac G5 back then and I hadn‘t seen a firewire webcam before, and it was free. But tbh, my M1 MBP‘s webcam is just as bad.
@@theonlinething1039 the thing with webcams tho is there is no expectation that they'll be good. Make em look fancy and mark em up but no one cares how bad they look 😅
they were bad without steve jobs haha and now with him dead is like a headless chicken making samsung knockoffs