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Article: THE PERSONAL IMAGING REVOLUTION.(Industry Trend or Event)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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My earliest experience with a digital camera was on a discount cruise bound from Miami to the Bahamas and back again. I might have looked like just another idiot in Bermuda shorts and a sunburn, but I was the only guy on the ship capturing 640-by-430-pixel images with the first full-color digital camera priced under $10,000, Apple's QuickTake 100.
Sure, I had to dash back to my cabin every 16 pictures to download images via a slow serial connection, and my gray-scale PowerBook had too little memory to open so much as a single image. But who cared? This was 1994, a time when only the rich could afford desk-bound, flat-page scanners, yet I was armed with a device ...