Quicktake for Apple II | Hacker News Reader

Quicktake for Apple II

colino.net

53 pointsmikerg8712 comments

Open articleView on HN

Somewhat related:

Apple QuickTake - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29738115 - Dec 2021 (3 comments)

Apple QuickTake 100 Digital Camera - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18062686 - Sept 2018 (2 comments)

Other camera things.

- Handspring Eyemodule2 ($199) 640x480 (4:3) x 8-bit stills and video

- Apple QuickCam was the first PC webcam

- The first digital camera was the Dycam Model 1/Logitech Fotoman

I'm curious what the first computer-attached, direct capture, digital cameras were for various platforms because digital photographs were being taken before 1993 without film and not the more expensive DSLR.

There were a bunch of still video capture solutions you could hook an NTSC camera up to your 8-bit home computer era (Apple II or C64)

I remember seeing someone capture a single frame of TV (or possibly from a VHS video) on an Amstrad PCW at a trade conference some time in the late 80s and thinking that was the most incredible piece of technology ever. A frame of TV displayed in glorious dithered green phosphor.

QuickCam was from Logitech not Apple. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCam

It was made by Connectix in 1994. The product line was acquired by Logitech in 1998.

Yeah, they were nice little things for the time! Luckily I don't think Logitech did much to ruin them back then.

Cromemco Cyclops?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco_Cyclops

http://wsudbrink.dyndns.org:8080/cyclops/index.html

Back in the Apple ][ days, using de-capped RAM chips was a thing.

https://hackaday.com/2014/04/05/taking-pictures-with-a-dram-...

The //c still holds a special place in my heart as the first computer I had access to. And I can safely say, despite its weight, it actually was a portable device. We took it at least once to my grandparents house, hooking it up via that universal composite video cable to their TV via the VCR IIRC.

Good times.

I had a //c when I went to college in 1989. I was proud of my little 9" green screen computer.

Then I found out that the guy down the hallway had an Amiga with a full color monitor.

I love these "to see if I could" type of projects. I really miss the days of those cable connectors as they're not yet too small to make DIYing anything with them easy. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there's a InstaSnapGramX low bit filter for the lulz

They said "it was possible" and maybe so, but not with any of the tooling we had in those days lol.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com