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Apple QuickTake 200 Documentation

Apple's documentation for the Apple QuickTake 200: the owner's guide, the QuickTake 200 Service Source and the February 1997 data sheet, all embedded below as PDFs.

User's guide

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Apple QuickTake 200 For Mac OS users is Apple Computer's owner's guide for the camera, copyright 1997, part number 034-0023-A (printed on the back cover). The hosted copy is a 98-page scan from vintageapple.org with a text layer added by the scanner, including the cover, contents, regulatory and safety pages and the index. Archive.org also has Apple's own PDF of the guide (item manuallib-id-2626194), which starts at Chapter 1 without the front matter.

Contents

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From the guide's contents pages:

  • Communications regulation information (p. vi) and important safety instructions (p. vii)
  • Chapter 1, Getting Started With the QuickTake 200 Camera (p. 1): package contents and system requirements (p. 2), the camera at a glance (p. 3), the mode dial (p. 4), installing the software (p. 5), batteries (p. 6-7), installing, formatting and write-protecting the storage card (p. 7-9), the strap (p. 10), date and time (p. 11-12)
  • Chapter 2, Using the Camera to Take Pictures (p. 13): focus (p. 16), aperture and LCD brightness (p. 17), the optical viewfinder (p. 18), the modes (p. 19-26), auto-power-off (p. 27), the AC power adapter (p. 28)
  • Chapter 3, Using the Camera With Your Mac OS-Based Computer (p. 31): Camera Access, transferring and uploading images, movies, the Dispatcher, saving and printing (p. 31-60)
  • Chapter 4, Maintenance and Troubleshooting (p. 61): care of the camera and lens (p. 61), handling the storage card (p. 62), solving problems (p. 63-65)
  • Appendix A, Technical Specifications (p. 67); Appendix B, Battery Information (p. 69); Appendix C, About ColorSync (p. 71); Appendix D, Transferring DOS Images to Mac OS-Based Portable Computers (p. 79); index (p. 81)

What this document does not contain

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An owner's guide: no service information and no description of the inside of the camera.

Download: Apple QuickTake 200 Users Guide for Mac OS 1997.pdf

Service Source

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The QuickTake 200 Service Source is Apple's service document for the camera, 25 pages, PDF dated 13 February 1997. On archive.org it is filed as an "Owner's manual" (item manualzz-id-1297044), but the document is the Service Source.

Contents

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  • Basics: Overview (p. 1-5), with the features, the controls and the mode dial, and the statement that the camera is repaired through whole-unit exchange in most countries; Camera Operation (p. 6-11)
  • Specifications: Characteristics (p. 1-3), Environmental (p. 4), Electrical (p. 5), Physical (p. 6)
  • Troubleshooting: General (p. 1), Symptom Charts for power, operation and computer use (p. 2-3), Displayed Warnings (p. 4)

What this document does not contain

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No parts list, take-apart procedure, exploded view or schematic. Its lens figure (8 mm, equivalent to a 48 mm lens) disagrees with the data sheet's 38 mm equivalent and with the "f=5.7mm" marking on the lens.

Download: Apple QuickTake 200 Service Source 1997.pdf

Data sheet

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Apple QuickTake 200: More Ways to Communicate with Digital Images is Apple's two-page product data sheet, dated February 1997, literature number L02204B. It gives features, technical specifications and ordering information: the camera M5705LL/A, the QuickTake AC Adapter M5707LL/A and the QuickTake 4MB Removable Storage Card M5708G/A.

Download: Apple QuickTake 200 Data Sheet 1997.pdf

Other sources

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Fujifilm's documents for the DS-7, its version of the camera, are on archive.org as item ffds-7: the owner's manual, the MG-2 Image Memory Card instructions, data transfer guides for Macintosh and Windows, and the AC-455F battery charger leaflet. They are cited on the QuickTake 200 pages but not hosted here.

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