Summary
| Name | QuickTake |
| Description | Image format for Apple QuickTake digital cameras |
| MIME Type(s) | application/vnd.apple.quicktake |
| PRONOM ID(s) | (none) |
| UDFR ID(s) | (?) |
| File extension(s) | qtk |
| Wikipedia page(s) | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_QuickTake |
| Format specification | No spec. known. |
Description
A summary of the format, focussing on digital preservation concerns.
Format issues
Issue 1
Difficult to access, but supported by dcraw.
There is apparently enough info on the web to deal with that format, try here
http://blog.richardsprague.com/2005/01/quicktake-camera-photo-conversion.html
or try Image Converter by Bitten Apps, the current changelog specifically states "Fixed a bug where the application would refuse to open QuickTake PICT files."
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/image-converter/id437491380?mt=12(From here
Issue 2
List of know preservation issues amd risks that this format can suffer from.
User Experiences
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/1577310
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/1577310
Apple Quicktake
Now there's an obsolete format. From Apple's abortive foray into the very early days of digital photography. I have a stack of them from a trip to Australia many years ago. The filetype is .pict but [typically Apple] a proprietory version of .pict that nothing else can read and [also typically Apple] support for the format has been dropped from Quicktime since the pre-OSX days.
Not much hope for file formats surviving into the future when even their own progenitors abandon them, after a few years!
(From http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/1577310
News Feeds
Links to places to find out when this format changes.
Tools
Cross-references to tools that support this format.