The Apple QuickTake 100 was awful lot of camera to produce awful images. But one of the first consumer digital cameras had to start somewhere. Photo: kezboy/eBay Sometimes the future is a fuzzy ...
The first digital camera it is not. There were others before and, of course, there have been many since. But it was the first practical digital camera for under $1,000. As a result history has ...
Matthew Fitzgerald, a CNET associate editor, has been involved with digital camera technology and the photo industry for more than 15 years. His background includes work as a professional photographer ...
In 1994, I was working as the IT manager for a natural gas pipeline company (all Macs, of course), had long hair pulled back in a ponytail, and none of that hair was gray. In January of '94, I ...
The idea of using the Apple II home computer for digital photography purposes may seem somewhat daft considering that this is not a purpose that they were ever designed for, yet this is the goal that ...
There was a time when everything Apple touched didn’t turn to gold (or an aluminium monobloc). In fact, in the early’90s Apple was a bona fide underdog. In an effort to stake a claim outside of its ...
Several people wrote in that there was actually a second digital camera from Apple (actually, their third, if you count the QuickTake 150), the QuickTake 200, which came out in 1996 and had the same ...
The idea of using the Apple II home computer for digital photography purposes may seem somewhat daft considering that this is not a purpose that they were ever designed for, yet this is the goal that ...
Most of what I write about on Think Retro are things that I personally remember using or lusting after. That’s how nostalgia works. It’s not really about the stuff or the places or the films or the ...
It’s possible that this escaped my attention in 1997, because at the time, I would have been listening to Smashing Pumpkins and playing Riven most of the time. Meanwhile, Apple was slapping its name ...
Apple, it seems, is all about the hits. The iPod, the iPhone and the MacBook are all phenomenally successful, both as designs and as commercial wins. These highlights, though, lead us to expect a lot ...