Camera of the Year

Hope everyone had a great holiday and a happy New Year! I've been absent from updating my presence here on the internet for a LONG time. The past month or so has been total madness, I literally worked every day from the 11th of December until the 30th with the only exception being Christmas, and sometimes Christmas with the family sometimes feels like work, LOL. So I'm realizing the 3 or so posts I started working on about stuff over the past month will probably not get done so I'm starting fresh with this one. I just happened upon this hot camera today and just had to have it, so I took it(no I didn't steal it)... it had been ABANDONED! Thrown away! This will be the camera I use at all of my weddings and events in 2009 (the lens is a little wide for portraits, so I'm just going to have to suck it up and use the D3 for those I guess...) Without further ado, I present the Apple QuickTake 200...

The what? That's right you read it right, the camera no one had ever heard of is now in my poessesion. Apple apparently made three digital camera models over a decade ago in 1994-1997 (the product line was killed when Steve Jobs returned). The one now in my possession is the third model the QuickTake 200 which sports a rockin' .3MP (thats right point-three mega pixels...you know, for those 1/2" by 1/4" prints) and a beautiful 1.5" LCD display. Please don't be jealous, I know you other photogs just bought your 5D Mark II's and D3X's and are now kicking yourselves. LOL! (please note: I'm not seriously going to use this thing...it only takes upto 32 photos with the largest memory card it will support, this will be a new paperweight for me)

Anyway, I didn't get around to doing a proper product shot of these, just a quick shot with my TV as a light source and a lens cloth as a backdrop..maybe if I have some time off this week I'll get around to doing a better shot for your viewing pleasure. In addition I hope to finally go out and field test my customized Flip Mino HD this week and share comparison clips between the Flip and a "real" video camera.