Quicktake200 Macguide

1 Getting Started With the QuickTake 200 Camera The QuickTake 200 is an easy-to-use digital camera that produces high- quality images you can quickly transfer to your Macintosh Operating System (Mac OS)–based computer. Using your computer you can manipulate and modify the images to suit your purposes. The QuickTake 200 is a valuable tool for graphic artists, publishing professionals, and anyone who wants to use images to communicate. IMPORTANT Save this manual. It contains important safety and operating instructions. This chapter contains information about system requirements; installing the QuickTake software, the storage card, and the batteries; and setting the date and time. 1 Do you have what you need? Be sure you have all the items shown here: Storage card AA batteries QuickTake 200 camera Optical viewfinder QuickTake CD-ROM discs Mac OS–based computer cable Carrying strap TV video cable System requirements To use the QuickTake 200 camera with your computer, you need m a Mac OS–based 68040 computer or a Power Macintosh computer m Mac OS version 7.5 or later m QuickTime version 2.0 or later m Apple recommends that you have at least 16 megabytes (MB) of random- access memory (RAM) with at least an 8-MB RAM partition available m a hard drive with at least 10 MB available m a CD-ROM drive 2 Chapter 1 Your camera at a glance Front view – (Time) button + (Date) button Action button Aperture selector Mode dial Focus selector Shutter release Camera lens Timer/sleep light Terminal door Back view Iø Power switch Iø LCD screen Storage card door …