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<p>Most of what I write about on Think Retro are things that I personally remember using or lusting after. That’s how nostalgia works. It’s not really about the stuff or the places or the films or the whatever, but about how you felt at the time you were exposed to them.</p><p>It’s why advertisers use chart toppers from when you were a teenager to get you to buy a wildly impractical car: They know that subconsciously invoking that dizzying feeling of potential and exhilaration will help silence the part of your brain that’s quietly insisting you buy a Toyota Camry.</p><p>As a result, I don’t really have any sense of nostalgia for the QuickTake, Apple’s original digital camera. I never owned one, never even
aspired to own one because to teenage me, $749 was an impossibly huge sum. I had only just been able to afford a tiny compact film camera. I did see one once. Our high school computing teacher justified buying one for his department by saying it was something the students should know about, but I suspect he just wanted to play with it himself.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3042180/camera-lenses/peek-into-the-viewfinder-of-a-quicktake-150.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Peek into the viewfinder of a QuickTake 150
