

The Apple QuickTake software imported the photos from the camera to the computer and allowed basic editing - rotation, resizing, and cropping. To view your photos, users connected the camera to either a Mac or Windows machine using a serial cable. The trash button is the recessed one at lower right. The back side of the QuickTake 100, with the control display at right. But the QuickTake 100 - which was available in versions for both Mac and Windows - had the advantage of being sold by a well-known tech company. The QuickTake 100 wasn’t the first consumer digital camera to hit the market the Fuji DS-X was sold in Japan starting in late 1989, while the Dycam Model 1 (marketed as the Logitech Fotoman) was in US stores as early as November of 1990. Apple helped to popularize digital cameras beginning in 1994, and today we’re taking a look at what is considered the first digital camera to have consumer acceptance: the Apple QuickTake 100.

You put film - in either a roll or cartridge - into your camera, took photos without knowing immediately how the image turned out, then took the film out of the camera and either developed it yourself in a darkroom or took it to a location to be developed for you. In 1994, photography was a rather involved affair. All Photos ©2020, Steven Sande except where noted.
