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Apple QuickTake
The Apple QuickTake product line is a series of portable digital cameras.
Apple offers you a complete imaging solution - from a digital camera and scanners for capturing images; to Macintosh computers and monitors for image enhancement and display; to printers for great-looking output. And because compatibility between all imaging products and the Mac OS is virtually seamless, the Apple line truly gives you an easy, all-in-one solution.
The QuickTake is a range finder camera, with fixed focus and a built-in flash. The camera is long and flat. In the front of the camera is a sliding lens cover. Be careful when you open the cover. Your natural inclination is to put a finger in the hole through which the lens appears. At the back of the camera is an LCD panel that displays how many pictures have been taken and how much memory is left. The flash can be programmed to fire automatically, always fire, or be turned off. The resolution of the pictures (640 x 480 or 320 x 240) can be chosen by pressing buttons next to the LCD display. A third button erases all images in the camera.
The shutter release is on the top of the camera, and the standard tripod mount is on the bottom. The camera is powered by four AA batteries. There is also a slot that slides back to reveal connections for an AC power supply (recommended for use while the camera is connected to the computer) and a serial port for connecting the camera to a computer.
The QuickTake is easy to use — just point and shoot. After taking a picture you must wait for several seconds while the camera stores the image. This makes it impossible to take a quick sequence of images even if you don't need to use the flash.
Like most Apple products, the QuickTake is very well designed. The software is perhaps the best part of this camera, and is better than any of the software available with the other digital still camera currently available. As well as an application for downloading and performing simple editing to images, there is a Control Panel that enables you to mount the camera as though it is a disk drive.
The QuickTake saves files in its own custom format, which although efficient, takes noticeably longer to decompress than other formats, such as JPEG. Also, if someone doesn't have the camera, they won't be able to view the image. You could give them QuickTake Extension, but it is better to open the image and save it in another format.
Interestingly, Apple received assistance in developing this camera from Kodak, who then released their own low resolution digital camera, the DC40. For those interested in creating low resolution QuickTime panoramic movies, Kaidan has released a tripod mount that works with the QuickTake.
The QuickTake camera, with the help of a special Control Panel, can appear as a disk drive on the Macintosh desktop. Simply drag the images from the QuickTake folder to the hard drive to download them from the camera.
QuickTake 100[edit]
See full article at Apple QuickTake 100
QuickTake 150[edit]
See full article Apple QuickTake 150.
QuickTake 200[edit]
See full article Apple QuickTake 200.
The QuickTake 200 is physically different from the 100 and 150 models. It also uses SmartMedia storage instead of internal memory.
