QT 150

[insaneboy]

scored a Quicktake 150, with the manual, travel case, leather camera sleeve, un-used close up kit in the case, and two of the four software disks.

has batteries in it and it works gonna pull the batteries and tuck it away, one day I'll have the PB180 up and running so I can use the camera

 

[sirwiggum]

Real collectors item.

Hard to believe that it's output is matched by fairly basic mobile phones nowadays!

I think the 150 was compatible with PCs too?

 

[insaneboy]

yeah, This one is the windows 'version', Basically has a PC serial cable and windows software.

 

[TheIanMan85]

Oh man that reminds me of using QuickTakes back in school. I remember playing with them and knowing that it was a real hint at the future of photography. No film...plug it in and transfer the pictures. Delete and keep going. Low resolution sure, but still.

I especially remember getting to take home a QT 200. Could you review the pictures you took on the 100s and 150s on the device? I can't remember and don't feel like doing a web search. The 200 was great because I knew if I got the right shot, and could delete and reshoot if needed. No more "one more to make sure I got it!" I think I still have some pictures saved that were taken with that QuickTake 200 somewhere. While I picked up a 1XX and played with it once when it showed up and was unboxed, the 200 was the first one I really spent any real time with.

It's nuts how far digital cameras have come. You've got yourself an awesome piece of Apple's past.

 

[macman142]

QT 150 plus PB 180 - cool setup! Pics are required when this happens :-*

 

[Concorde1993]

Could you review the pictures you took on the 100s and 150s on the device?

No, as there was no internal LCD on the 100/150 (only the 200 had it). So if you took a pic on the 100/150, you would have no way of finding out how well it came out until you connected the camera to your Mac.

A stupid compromise, IMHO, but these things were bound to fail (sales-wise) from the get-go.

 

[insaneboy]

Could you review the pictures you took on the 100s and 150s on the device?

No, as there was no internal LCD on the 100/150 (only the 200 had it). So if you took a pic on the 100/150, you would have no way of finding out how well it came out until you connected the camera to your Mac.

A stupid compromise, IMHO, but these things were bound to fail (sales-wise) from the get-go.

this is why I bought a Kodak DC200Plus as my first digital camera... it had a screen (and it was cheap)

 

[Concorde1993]

this is why I bought a Kodak DC200Plus as my first digital camera... it had a screen (and it was cheap)

I find that somewhat ironic since the 100/150 were both manufactured by Kodak. As stated above, they didn't have any internal screen to view photos, and while they were targeted at the consumer market, they weren't exactly cheap (the 100 originally sold for about $750 US).

 

[IIfx]

I have one of these. I like the unique look of it for a camera.

It also has an all glass lens, but the sensor in it is not as good as the lens can be...so its doomed to producing pixely grainy shots.

Still, a piece of history.

 

[TheIanMan85]

Could you review the pictures you took on the 100s and 150s on the device?

No, as there was no internal LCD on the 100/150 (only the 200 had it). So if you took a pic on the 100/150, you would have no way of finding out how well it came out until you connected the camera to your Mac.

That's what I thought...memory was fuzzy on those. Boy did I want one when they first came out. Wanted a 200 even more when I had one on loan as told before. I recall my Step Dad having a Sony that saved pictures to a floppy disk. I finally got a 1.3 MP Sony of my own that used MemorySticks some time later. Never got a QuickTake. Yet...

 

[Concorde1993]

Never got a QuickTake

If you're ever in the market to get one, look for a boxed 200. Although the picture quality isn't greatly improved from the 100/150 (alas, who would be buying these for the picture quality :?: ), the internal LCD does make a big difference. It also looks nicer than the "binocular" styled 100/150.

I was fortunate enough to get one two years ago on eBay for $70 (the only thing it was missing was the external viewfinder, and installation disc). Look up "Christmas Conquest" on the forum search if you want more info on my 200.

 

[sirwiggum]

"Analogue" cameras didn't have instant screens either. You had to take them to the photo shop (a place before it became an application) and get them developed before seeing how they turned out!

At least with these first digital cameras you only had to wait til you got home.

 

[4seasonphoto]

Sure, having a 3" OLED display on the back of the camera for reviewing seems obvious NOW, but back in the early 1990s, it was anything but. At one point I owned a Kodak DCS200, which was only their second pro-grade DSLR. Something like $18K new (but I paid around $350 because the SF Post was dumping them on eBay) It was essentially a stock Nikon 8008s film body with a 1 megapixel digital back grafted on, and it had an internal 2.5" SCSI hard drive. To download photos, yup, you had to connect via SCSI and access the camera's storage using Kodak's Photoshop plug-in, because the drive didn't appear on the Mac desktop. Can you imagine having to shut down your computer every time you wanted to grab some photos? Oh, and it didn't have a color LCD either, just a tiny monochrome status display. Modern amenities like a large color screen and CF card storage occurred a little bit later.

I was fortunate to own a Quicktake 100 when it was still a very new item! Too bad I lost a lot of photos simply because I had nowhere to put them all, so I deleted a lot. No Zip or affordable CD-R drives at the time, and my Duo 230 had only a 40 megabyte drive and I was forever filling it up.

 

[IPalindromeI]

Ian, you're talking about the Sony Mavica.

 

[spiceyokooko]

I have a QuickTake 100 complete with original box, manual and original disks I'll be disposing of at some point when I can get round to sorting it out, finding all the bits and testing it! I certainly have the plug-in rechargeable battery holder as I came across it the other day.

I'll put it in trading post when it's ready to go.

Cheers.

 

[TheIanMan85]

Ian, you're talking about the Sony Mavica.

Yup! The one that took a floppy was a Mavica. My 1.3 MP was a Cyber-shot. Cyber-shot DCS-P30 to be specific, still have it somewhere...