The first digital camera it is not. There were others before and, of course, there have been many since. But it was the first practical digital camera for under $1,000. As a result history has remembered the QuickTake 100 as a significant step toward the digital camera as a consumer device.
To be exact, the QuickTake 100 (known inside Apple as 'Project Venus') was officially launched at MacWorld – a trade show in Japan – in February 1994. It was $749 (about $1,575 in today's money), boasted a maximum resolution of 640 x 480 and a memory of just eight shots (if you insisted on using that maximum resolution).
