Any Idea what type of charging port this is, I thought it was ye old Mini B, but its too thick. We’re having a clearout and found our old Camcorder, the model is a Luminox LXDV750 12.0 MEGA MAX, can anyone help me find this port?
I did some research on this and it looks like a U-8 cable to me. Seems like it was popular with digital camera back in the day and I think I even have one kicking around somewhere. If you look there are 8 pins in that connector which would rule out FireWire and standard USB 2.0 connectors. I think this device is likely too old to have HDMI and from what I’ve seen it can actually output composite video from the 3.5 mm jack. Check out U-8 and you might even be able to find a 3.5 mm jack to composite cable that works for video out.
If it’s not this, it could also be the uc-e6 cable Nikon came up with, that a bunch of other companies also used on their cameras. Also 8 pins, about this size, usb on the other end.
You may be right.
I’ve got the same results: 8 pin mini-usb. Found a listing in Germany that has a shot of the cable. That one has a standard USB-A (not what yours is) but the thing to note is that it’s USB on one side and component plugs on the other: https://www.ebay.de/itm/407220939580
Edit: actually, what I found doesn’t look like U-8, but it does look like your port. Here’s a link on the Evil Empire with pictures: https://www.amazon.com/SNLLMZI-Ferrite-anti-interference-Olympus-Panasonic/dp/B0H8R53VC2
Oddly enough the way I found out about this connector is that for some reason they decided to use them on some Steel Series gaming headsets. Of course the connector is recessed, so you can only use their specially shaped cable. Guess they did ok with the design because I’ve probably been using the headset for close to a decade
This.
Update: we’ve found the barrel connector plug for it, so we can charge it, though i’ll get a new battery, thats been sitting in a cupboard for around 14 years or so
ITT: So many confidently incorrect comments
Looks at comments:
That’s right, it goes in the square hole.
i think i found it: https://pinoutguide.com/DigitalCameras/micro_usb_8pin_camera_pinout.shtml
non standard micro usb 8pin, check the site if your camcorder is on that list
it also kinda looks like a 8 pin variant of the usb mini a-b connector,
This ebay listing has a picture of the box and that says USB 2.0.
It’s not USB mini-B as you found, nor normal USB B, for that it’s too small. Nor is it Firewire like many here claim for some reason when the shape is clearly off. Mini HDMI and Micro HDMI are too new, so that’s also a bad suggestion.
I think it’s probably the proprietary 8-pin mini USB originally by Nikon, also known as UC E6
Man the only good trend in modern tech is the homogenization of cables. Huntington down proprietary single use cables that are usually just for charging is such a fucking nightmare. Woe to anyone with a device that relies on FireWire.
(And it’s not even a new trend—looking at you: 1/4inch plug 😒)
“USBC will replace everything!” but then they made a dozen different unnamed USBC specs that not every cable supports
Yeah but the port supports the specs. I’d rather 5 usbc ports that can do all the things than 5 random plugs with their own cables that (also) don’t support the specs of each individual plug.
Not necessarily! There’s multiple types of USBC ports unfortunately. It’s a damn mess.
Okay. Provide a new port then. In the interim can I suggest a plug of some sort to put into your butt?
Why are you weirdly defensive of the USB spec?
why are you weirdly aggressive toward it?
I wouldn’t call it weird, I work in an industry that has to deal with it almost daily lol
Its nice that it’s one plug size but it’s frustrating that they had the opportunity to truly standardize with it and we wound up with this. Same thing happened with HDMI but this has even jankier results.
I’ll also give it credit that laptop docks are 1 cable but my new work laptop requires the power cord for maximum power so it’s less exciting now
Yea, I feel like every camera from that era had its own variation on the usb shape.
That looks proprietary.
A lot of companies back in the mid-2000s would take a USB cable and make a custom head.
This meant that you always had to go through the manufacturer to get a replacement. It would ensure that the cable would always meet spec, but it also meant that no one could make cheaper replacements.
Similar models are documented to use a combined USB/av port for video prior. Batteries are usually charged externally.
Looks like micro HDMI to me.
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Yes, also called HDMI type D
Not the right era and much to big. Micro HDMI is on a raspberry pi. This is the time of camcorders. This is the time of yellow, white and red video auto (av) cables and video recorders for your TV.
Side by side
Prolly custom but it does look similar to this cable I got from a Panasonic DMC-FZ18
Better Flash-shot down the port
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Mini DisplayPort?
Not even close.
Looks like it, matches the socket shape exactly.
(Lot of people having trouble knowing which part of this mini-DisplayPort to HDMI adapter to focus on. Either way, not mini-DisplayPort, just something that looks frustratingly identical to it.)
maybe Firewire. That was the high speed wire back in the day, popular with video production and MacOS.
Firewire looked very different from this
it’s not firewire
Close. It seems to be mini-DisplayPort, which is the successor to FireWire. There is a mini-FirreWire, but the shape is different.
While we’re at it - what kind of USB is this one on my old digicam from ~2003? Anyone?
Mini-USB
It clearly looks different
Mhh I could have sworn I tried that, but now it seems I can’t find a Mini-USB cable in the housr, so I might not have… Thanks.
The worst part is, there are
twothree physical variants of mini-USB. Yours looks like mini-A.So you might have tried a mini-USB cable and it didn’t work because it was the wrong variant. 🤦♂️ Hope you find one that fits.
