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?
Its probably FireWire. Old camcorders used that. Listen to the other comment mentioning FireWire 400.
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.
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
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.
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.
FireWire 400
Edit: for all of you kids out there, fire wire 400 came out around the same time USB 2.0, but it was faster superior. FireWire 400 (400 Mb/s)became FireWire 800 (800Mb/s), which eventually became thunderbolt (10Gb/s). Then thunderbolt 2 (20 Gb/s), thunderbolt 3 (40 Gb/s), thunderbolt 4 (40Gb/s + PCIe 32Gb/s), thunderbolt 5 (80Gb/s with 120Gb/s boost), all over a standard USB-C connection.
That’s 4x faster than a USB 3.2 connection, and 8x faster than a USB 3.0 connection. that’s 250x faster than a USB 2.0 connection.
Thanks to Apple, Sony, and Intel
(For reference, DDR5 RAM can only read/write at just over 51 GB/s)
Thunderbolt 6 is in the works
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.
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
Better Flash-shot down the port
Mini DisplayPort?
Looks like it, matches the socket shape exactly.
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.
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.
Similar models are documented to use a combined USB/av port for video prior. Batteries are usually charged externally.
Side by side
This is 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.
While we’re at it - what kind of USB is this one on my old digicam from ~2003? Anyone?
Mini-USB
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.
There having a clear out
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.
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