RANDOM APPLE MEMORY
Apple QuickTake 100
Graham Barlow looks back at Apple’s love affair with taking still digital images
Obviously, the QuickTake 100 looks archaic now but it was the digital camera game-changer of its day.
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hen I think about how technology has changed over the last 40 years, it’s the rise and fall of the digital camera that always strikes me as the most dramatic. While SLRs are still in demand, the cheaper end of the digital camera market has all but collapsed thanks to the ubiquitousness of smartphones equipped with 12MP cameras that are as good as most people ever need. Apple, of course, started the smartphone trend and is currently leading the way with the iPhone 13 Pro’s three camera system that’s capable of stunning macro photography, but if you leaf back through the pages of Apple’s history you’ll find that the iPhone wasn’t its first foray into the digital camera space.