Apple commenced plans to venture into the new market of digital photography in 1992 releasing the QuickTake 100 digital camera two years later. The QuickTake 100 was held like a pair of binoculars unlike other traditional cameras before it. The camera could take 24bit colour photographs at a resolution of 640×480 which was stored on internal flash memory.

The QuickTake 150 was much the same as the first but Windows users could also access the camera. Both the 100 and 150 did not feature a way to preview the photos on the camera like is commonplace today. The 150 added support for JPEG and bit-mapped photos but still only included 1MB internal memory.

It wasn’t until the QuickTake 200 that the camera saw the more familiar camera form including an LCD screen for previews and removable storage in the format of SmartMedia. The camera had the same basic specifications as it’s predecessors and was discontinued shortly after Steve Jobs return in 1997.

While only a few models were introduced, Apple played a part in pioneering the digital camera. The QuickTake remains a valuable part of most Apple collections as a symbol of the companies expansion beyond just personal computers.

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