1991 – 1997retired
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“0.3 megapixels of pure nerve — the camera that convinced everyone digital was worth it.”
Launched in 1994 by Apple Computer, the QuickTake (codename Venus, Mars, or Neptune, depending on the model) was one of the first consumer digital camera lines. Three models shipped: the 100 and 150, designed by Kodak and built by Kodak's partner Chinon, and the 200, built by Fujifilm. With a maximum resolution of 640 x 480 pixels, it wasn't the first digital camera technically — but it was the first one regular peop
Time profiled the QuickTake as 'the first consumer digital camera' and ranked it among the 100 greatest and most influential gadgets from 1923 to the present. Others beat it to market — the Dycam Model 1 in 1990, the Fuji DS-X in 1989 — but the QuickTake was the first digicam to win wide consumer acceptance. Apple discontinued it in 1997 after three years, its pioneering work done; every phone camera in your pocket i
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