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?
This si the only cable I have that I THINK is a Mini B, but as I say its too big for the port
Flash photo for pins
Yeah, that’s a mini-USB cable. Which is what the other person with a device that actually has a USB logo next to the port was looking for.
The port on your device is
Mini DisplayPort, also known as Thunderbolt on Apple devices.Japanese-made mini-USB variant called UC-E6. The UC-E6 port is almost exactly the same proportions as mini-DisplayPort but ever so slightly smaller. Wild that it found its way onto a Swiss-made camera. Maximum confusion, especially with the device not identifying the port as USB.
Side by side
Mini DisplayPort?
Not even close.
Looks like it, matches the socket shape exactly.
miniDV to HDMI?
nooooo
Its probably FireWire. Old camcorders used that. Listen to the other comment mentioning FireWire 400.
Why would we listen to the guy who clearly can’t tell shapes apart…?
Firewire is not shaped like that and doesn’t have enough pins.
You’re right. It actually looks like the cable in this eBay listing:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/256497399057?itmprp=cksum%3A256497399057ae9ba5477c7d4a73892b9c549a34b708|enc%3AAQALAAABIBA59BGb3nKPoUn3dA5wvjtFkr0XIzzhTL7G82EDoRHeXwJucBnUWDVV0HG7caRyS%252BShp5dxXB7HoCE8FektVGRp6yP248wqsW4eheIhr2C%252Bv4vTH9rEtcuKOuRy7O1OuTKy6hT1CEanvLdoM4Pr2mDHMgBWlg0ChJCGBfXUXWYgvV5Si454k8FQUL6MkIy5KqJ0GZQBIxT1BP6OTyNHQZwUflD8SmhFhAZ5Cmgie7z3EkDMTIHOBILg4gmpmsOdABi%252BYpBesf40VIpbkTila1b%252FlKI5ojd6z%252Bhk80oyFHNXxsilTc%252BQYJQfgQH91BpLTWj5FtZbL7egYsZr69FBKkllDf6U57dgYrG97F7DnrHbzt08k%252FVBU7Ry3AvTMedp6Q%253D%253D|ampid%3APL_CLK|clp%3A2332490&itmmeta=01M6W2NSN4GTG7G62PMBXJHXBC
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.
Better Flash-shot down the port
Looks like micro HDMI to me.
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.
niet
OP’s socket is female FireWire 400
Similar models are documented to use a combined USB/av port for video prior. Batteries are usually charged externally.
maybe Firewire. That was the high speed wire back in the day, popular with video production and MacOS.
it’s not firewire
Firewire looked very different from this
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?
Yea, I feel like every camera from that era had its own variation on the usb shape.
Too few pins to be HDMI
Truer words have never been spoken. 🫣 OP, disregard my comment! xD
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.
This.
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
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
FireWire 400
Sorry, but that is not a FireWire 400 or 800 port. I still have a FireWire audio interface that I use and the ports look nothing like that.
That is a firewire 400 port, and that is the only firewire 400 port there ever was.
You’re thinking of something else, not related to fire wire. You are mistaken.
What OP posted is NOT FireWire in any of its variants.
Here’s what FireWire 400 looks like.
Does that look like what OP posted?
Also, you’re blocked. So I won’t hear your diarrhea of complaints.
Wah wah wah! Boo hoo hoo!
Scream into the void. I’ll never hear you, lol.
Block me too you whiny little bitch. How’s that going? Carving out your little echo chamber because you can’t stand the slightest disagreement?
Throwing another tantrum with another alt account?
And you’re accusing me of being a “little bitch”?
Lol
How sad that “tell the truth” and “be a decent person“ send you into such a tailspin. Perhaps when you master those two things, you’ll understand the rest.
And, of course, you’re blocked
This dude is straight pathetic. He thinks someone else came at him from another account to call him a bitch. I can’t fathom that level of pettiness, and then to project that on someone else, because that’s what they would do.
Nope, I’m the same shalafi I’ve always been, and I’ll never make a second account for any reason.
Ummm… OK? I really don’t care.
Firewire also has a “small” version of the plug, I used it to copy my old DV tapes to the computer last year. (Finally, probably just in time before my old 2010 desktop PC kicks the bucket). Cameras hat the small version, it looks a bit similar to the old Mini USB.
On the other hand, it has 8GB of RAM in it, that is something in 2026.
The “I.link” FireWire 400/small port is very square and has a notch in the bottom of it.
Yes! It has the small 400 version that many cameras used, as well as the square 800 port, but none of them have the same shape as what OP posted.
I remember it well. Worked in a lab setting doing computer work. The microscopes they used at the time were all firewire connections for the cameras to comminicate. It became semi annoying because it was always the 1 part not used anywhere else so they always needed to be purchased specifically for this dept at the time. It was also on tests back then for being certified since they wanted you to point out the differences and was normally thrown in as a wildcard answer.
FireWire/Thunderbolt is the best interconnect protocol. Unlike usb, it is constant bitrate. USB is variable bitrate, so its throughput speed is not guaranteed. but with FireWire/Thunderbolt, you always knew how fast it was going. That’s why it was always extremely good for, in your case, scientific equipment, cameras, video editing, large, external data storage devices, etc… and the data transfer is symmetrical rather than unidirectional like USB.
Thunderbolt is fucking awesome. My buddy just built out a new Plex server, and his 50 TB external storage box is running at thunderbolt 4. He can stream out multiple remote 4K streams, and his gigabit Internet connection AND his local network will both be bottlenecks far before his storage device throughput will be.
Edit: my buddies box could host 6 remote 4K streams, 12 local 4K streams, and he could edit 4 remote (local 10Gb/80Gb cached network) 8K edits in Adobe Premiere before he’d hit a single frame jitter.
system76 makes some nice boxes.
Last time I heard about system76 they were a mediocre OEM but one of the few selling Linux
Worth another look, IMO
PopOS is a second rate distro, but the hardware is pretty awesome. Rebranded AsusTek. Decent stuff. Nice warranties. excellent customer service.
Let’s also acknowledge its role in making the iPod possible. While the iPod skyrocketed to popularity once it was supported on Windows and the USB2.0 dock connector was added, Firewire 400 made the original iPod possible in the first place. The then common USB 1.1 was too slow to realistically transfer music, so they chose to build the original iPod with Firewire as it’d already been used in the iMac, which had been positioned as a “digital hub” compatible with (brining it full circle to OPs question) digital camcorders of the day.
No doubt! The Original iPod was the consumer breakthrough for FireWire 400 – unless you count the MiniDisc players, but few people outside Japan cared about those (except me, wee!). I never gave up my NetMD player/recorder-- it was stolen!
But Apple (like Sony and Intel) were heavily invested in FireWire, and the iPod seemed like the perfect kickoff, especially since USB 2.0 wasn’t ready when the 1st-Gen iPod premiered.
You’re like a spokesman for, or historian of, connection protocols; I love it.
You brought up MiniDisc players. I know I could always get something from ebay, but I’m going to Japan in a couple of months and that seems like the perfect excuse to look for a used MiniDisc player, possibly Japan exclusive. Do you have any recommendations of what I should look for?
this or this (https://www.etsy.com/listing/4554458635/sony-mz-r70-minidisc-player-faultygpla=1&gao=1&dd_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.etsy.com%2F)
those are the same models had and are available to buy now
That’s a different shape than the port OP showed.
Hmmm… I think you’re right
So you agree what OP posted a picture of has a totally different shape port than a FireWire port?
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
