Excellent Technology YouTube channel Crazy Kane Computer Kabir Is back with another Camera-centric episodeThis time in the 1990s, 1994, looking at Apple’s Forest to make digital cameras in 1994 Apple Quicktech 100100 plus, 150, and its last model, 1996 Quicktech 200,
In Kane’s half -hour video, he breaks the attractive history of the Quicktech series, where the cameras impressed, why they eventually failed, and the complex heritage that they have left behind. In classic crazy can fashion, he takes the cameras out to the field, to see how they stand after about 30 years.
“Apple Quicktech was very good in many ways,” Kane opens. “So why did (Apple) hit it in just three years? Also, how well do these 0.3-megapixel cameras actually work?”
Many of the specifications and features of the original Quicktech 100 now seem to be properly archaic, but Quicktech 100 was now much higher than its old glasses. Quicktech 100 came at a time when Apple, as a company, was struggling – $ 3 trillion is not there anywhere. Newton Personal Assistant had just flopped, and Apple was looking for a hit at a time when he could hardly take any risk. However, Apple took a lot of risk.
Apple Quicktake 100 not only marked a new product segment for Apple, but was one of the first consumer-oriented digital cameras to hit the market. A codak-developed 0.3-megapixel CCD sensorA user-friendly point-end-shoot design, and technology, as Kane seemed to be “magic” at the time, Quicktech reached the store shelves in 100 June 1994 and paved the way for the veterans of the photo industry to enter the consumer digital photography space. Apple Quicktake 100 opened a door, and immediately after that everyone chased Apple.
Apple released Quicktech 150 quickly next year, which facilitates better file compression technology, enabled photographers to capture 16 best quality photos from 32 standard-quality shots. Quicktech 100 owners could send their cameras to the Apple to upgrade Quicktech 100 Plus, with the same performance as 150. The camera also sported an ad-on close-up lens.
In 1996, Apple released Quicktech 200 manufactured by Fujifilm. The camera still took pictures at the same little 640 by 480-pixel resolution, offered more memory, splung a 1.8-inch rear display, and added focus and aperture control. It was a much more versatile and powerful camera than its predecessors, but it would not save it.
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he entered with an ax and dropped the company’s product lineup into the ribbon, killing almost all non-computer products of Apple, including Quicktech, the company’s printer and Newton. While all these are not necessarily great disadvantages, it is a matter of shame that Quicktech was prematurely closed, before it got a chance to flourish. Kodak, Fujifilm, Canon, Nikon, and Sony filled the zero, but it is difficult to overstate how Quicktech was groundbreaking.
However, just because the Quicktech series was impressive does not mean it is GoodHe said, while its image quality is not standing today, Kane noted that it was really great for the time. Certainly, the dynamic range is poor and low-light performance is Abhishek, but in the right position, Quicktech 100 can take a good digital photo, especially when considering the monitor will display photos of people.
Quicktech 200 represented a significant improvement in image quality despite arriving only two years later. Digital camera technology greatly improved in its early days, and Quicktech 200 is a strong will for this. It is easy to surprise what a Quicktech 300 or even 400 can be on the Apple course. Would Apple become one of the largest camera companies in the world? Hey wait, Did it,
But wait, there is more. Kane made his Inner Apple CEO a channel with “One More Thing”, which is repeatedly forgotten, never released Apple Quicktech 1000. The model was built on the design of Quicktech 100, “Performing very fast with rocker control and a PowerPC processor with a motorized zoom lens,” Kane says. Eventually, this camera was left in favor of Quicktech 200.
Although Quicktech 200 was well received at that time, consumers were still more interested in buying new film cameras than digital people. The quality of the film image was much better and will continue for a while. Digital cameras were expensive, and it was not immediately clear that they were actually more useful than analogue.
While Apple Quicktake can be classified as a failure, which will be a mistake, given its short lifetime. Yes, Apple killed Quicktech, but it was not because the camera was naturally bad or it could never set its legs. Quicktech was born at the wrong time for the apple. The company was bleeding money, and when the jobs returned to Apple, they focused the company’s focus.
The move saved Apple and helped to motivate it for a new generation of use and development, which then gave birth to iPhone, which Digital camera almost killed from market Quicktech helped enter.
Image Credit: Photos were given courtesy of Crazy Kane Computer Kabir
