Over The Edge
Originally uploaded by Proggie.
This was taken with an Apple QuickTake 200 ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_QuickTake ) digital camera in the summer of 1997 when I moved to Squamish to work for a company that made cutting edge software based around Apple's QuickTime VR technology.
At the time we needed digital cameras to be able to stitch together panoramas from multiple overlapping images into 360 degree QTVR scenes. It would have been a pain to have to scan multiple images from a film camera, so a digital one really helped. The QuickTake was one of the very first consumer digitals. It's resolution was 640x480, and there weren't many other applications for it beside taking grainy snapshots such as this.
Later on, in late 1999 we got one of the very first megapixel digicams, an Olympus D-620L. What a beauty that was. It took great photos, that could actually produce a decent print. Consumer digital photography was still in its infancy but we all knew it would be just a matter of time before the technology would get better, and everyone (well almost) would accept it. Now even a lot of pros, who may have shunned digital photography earlier on, have converted to digital, and more and more of the big film companies are either going out of business or are dropping their film products.
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