Editing Apple QuickTake accessories (section)

== Serial cable ==
The QuickTake 100 and 150 have an 8-pin mini-DIN serial socket, which shares a sliding cover with the power socket.<ref name="qt100ug" /><ref name="colinoqt2">Colin Leroy-Mira, "Quicktake for Apple II", colino.net, https://www.colino.net/wordpress/quicktake-for-apple-ii/ (retrieved 2026-10-02). Community cabling notes. Source for: the mini-DIN-8 socket on the QuickTake 100 and 150; the computer's DTR wired to its pins 2 and 7 and ground to pin 4; the mini-DIN-8 to DB-9 cable supplied with the Windows version; the QuickTake 200 and Fujifilm DS-7 sharing a protocol.</ref> Apple's two cables for them are:<ref name="qt100ss" /><ref name="qt150ss" />
* "Cable, Macintosh, DIN-8 to DIN-8", 922-0671, for the Macintosh modem or printer port.
* "Cable, DIN-8 to DB9, Black", 922-0676, for a PC's 9-pin serial port.

The camera only starts talking after the computer lowers its DTR line, so a cable without DTR will not work. In Colin Leroy-Mira's cables DTR drives pins 2 and 7 of the camera socket.<ref name="colinoqt2" /> He also found that some new mini-DIN-8 "printer" cables are wired straight through, while Apple's own Macintosh serial cable, 590-0552-A, is wired null-modem; that is the cable that connects a Macintosh to an ImageWriter II, another Macintosh or a QuickTake.<ref name="colinocable">Colin Leroy-Mira, "The Macintosh serial cable (Mini-DIN-8, 590-0552-A)", colino.net, 11 May 2026, https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2026/05/11/the-macintosh-serial-cable-mini-din-8-590-0552-a/ (retrieved 2026-10-02). Community report. Source for: cables sold as Macintosh-to-ImageWriter II printer leads that are wired straight; Apple's 590-0552-A Macintosh serial cable being wired null-modem and serving for an ImageWriter II, another Macintosh or a QuickTake camera.</ref>

The QuickTake 200 has a port marked DIGITAL behind its terminal door, and comes with a Mac OS computer cable and a video cable for an NTSC television.<ref name="qt200ug" /><ref name="qt200ds" /> On the Fujifilm DS-7, Fujifilm's version of the camera, the DIGITAL (RS-232C) port is a 2.5 mm stereo jack and the video output a phono socket, 1 V peak-to-peak into 75 Ω.<ref name="ds7">Fuji Photo Film Co., ''Fujifilm Digital Camera DS-7 Owner's Manual'', archive.org item [https://archive.org/details/ffds-7 ffds-7], file 0wnersManual.pdf (retrieved 2026-10-02), specifications p. 40.</ref><ref name="wpqt" /> Apple recommends the modem port for the QuickTake 200.<ref name="qt200ug" />