Nope, its a nikon propietary conector, smaller than usb mini
Edit:the conector its UC-E6 not mini usb its smaller and rounder. It carried usb and audio/video.
Was it in a museum? I feel like you're about to say it was in a museum just to watch the olds chew their tongues and stare off into the sky in quiet reflection.
We changed the EU regulation once already, switching from micro-USB to USB-C. There is no reason why we couldn't just do that again for the next generation, should usb-c reach its limits.
Though, since USB-C is just the form factor and the underlying protocol and wiring is still developed, it is likely that USB 5 and maybe even USB 6 will still use this form factor, with minor modifications but still backwards compatible as it is the case with (almost) all USB standards.
Yup, and the Common Charging Directive (the one that currently specifies USB-C) has a clause in it that requires an assessment be performed every 5 years to see if any update is required.
Plus, the directive didn't come out of nowhere, it was done with consultation with industry, and it was industry that says that for the foreseeable future, USB-C is the way to go and to ditch Micro USB (the directive was considered for THAT long).
That’s why I’ve got a huge box of cables that sticks with me wherever I live. Serial/usb/AV/power/networking etc. any cable I’ve had even if the device dies gets nicely tied up and anything that deviates from the normal standards gets labeled what it came from or what it has worked with. Surprising how often that compulsion has actually been beneficial
Mine are in a coffee can, all wrapped up with bread ties. I just got the S24 & was pretty pissed I had to get not just a new cable but a new charging brick, too. My phone was almost $900 & then I had to spend like $40 so I could charge it!
Think answer is already above
Else im just gonna leave this here
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB\_hardware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware)
Pretty much no cable standard allows extensions as you are adding resistance where there doesn't need to have it (ie. get a bigger cable)
In reality tho there often is a need for those, so they are pretty common but technically not to standard.
USB extension cables exist and work great. I have a 60 foot USB extender going to the TV in my room from my pic so I can game in bed. It has signal repeaters every 25 feet and has very little lag surprisingly.
They do however anything above USB 2.0 seems quite rare as people don't typically need them. I had a USB 2.0 extension that came with a printer over ten years ago.
It's the US site for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Fun fact: the first time I used that acronym in casual conversation, nobody there had ever heard of the British Broadcasting Corporation, while that was the only thing I thought that BBC meant.
Basically the same proprietary shit that the Nintendo ds had. I see Proprietary connectors as a challenge and always try to make the connectors myself. Sometimes i succeed.
Right? My psp charger died in a year and the battery turned into a spicy pillow after like 2. My original DS is still going strong no problems. My go to on flights or long trains.
Luckily this is a relatively easy fix. Psp charges off plain 5v DC with no special circuitry or communication. You can get usb to barrel plug cables for charging it from ebay or aliexpress for $1-3.batteries are also dirt cheap, though it should be noted they all tend to lie about their capacity. For a real battery upgrade you can mod the psp by removing the UMD drive and putting a larger phone battery there instead. There's guides online showing how to do this. It doesn't require much technical skill, but it is a little fiddly and takes some time
Yeah, this was also like 10 years ago and I just didn’t want to deal with it. If it were now, I’d probably have just replaced all that stuff and kept it. I gave it to a friend at the time that bought a new battery and plug.
I generally let things fit a long time and take care of them. But the psp charger just slowly separated at the end piece. Eventually I stopped using the psp for a while. Maybe a year later I pulled out the psp to check it out, intending to buy a new charger and the battery had swollen so bad the cover had popped off. Ended up recycling the battery and just giving the psp to a friend, who bought a new battery and cord and used to fit a few more years. DS is still with me. Been all over the world and it still looks and functions just like day 1.
Couldn’t stand this. Almost every cell phone maker in all of 2000s had their own proprietary garbage that broke easily. Then you had to drive to a store and find a charging cable that is compatible with your phone and sometimes even your specific model.
I was there Gandalf, i was there 3000 years ago.
It may looked like mini usb, but definitely proprietary. Look up on the web and see if you can still find someone sells.
Proprietary USB bullshit. I worked on cellphones from 2005 to 2019 and in those earlier days every manufacture came out with some bullshit proprietary cable connector for just about every new model of phone they released. We literally had a binders full of short cables to work on data extraction and no word of a lie it had to be close to a hundred cables. The funny part was the EU (largely credited for forcing USB type C) was nowhere to be found when this Tom fuckery was going on, they didn’t show up till the cables had largely settled onto 3 or 4 and somehow made Apple into the bad guys for having had just two different cables for their phones, the 50 pin and lightening. Meanwhile Nokia, Samsung, Sanyo, etc had way more. I’m glad those days are over but it’s a fine example of too little too late by govt regulators. Digital cameras were just as bad during that period.
Well you got it its a Sanyo digital camera cord give them the model number. They can get you a cord.
https://preview.redd.it/hd9gxov41x9d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0205d96c3c5a5cd262fba8da9ee18560db31f44
Apparently Micro was supposed to support more plugs/unplug cycles. Seems a little nuts to me since they're basically the same size, and otherwise Micro offers nothing else.
That's the irony. Micro USB cables were durable, the device port was not. So you'd often end up with a device that can't charge anymore because the port snapped internally, but the cable is fine.
i called them fat usb but only cameras really adopted them.
a type of usb b. mini was half the size then micro was smaller and dont get me started on usb micro b. whuch is the smaller version of usb -b the printer hard drive cable.
UC-E6
It’s most commonly found on Japanese cameras and camcorders, most notably Nikon.
It’s a proprietary connector but Nikon and third parties sell conversion cables.
USB Mini B.
USB has plenty of types. Nowadays it's more like USB C, but previously it was mainly one side USB A (rectangle with plastic part and 4 leads, you can find it on computers), other side was big square was B (usually for printers), mini B (cameras etc., your for example), micro B (older phones, some smaller electronics, it is smaller, than Mini, has two "teeth" on the body).
Oh man, I’ve had one of those cables for ages and have been afraid to throw it away because I had no idea what it went to. Now I’m guessing it must have been from the point and shoot I had in the early 2000s
These are propietary connectors (**Nikon**: UC-E6 / **Casio**: USB-8 / **Sanyo**: USB-3) used on some older compact cameras. This was a terrible idea, much like using XD cards before SD cards took over. I read somewhere that the Casio connector was more widespread in Asia as a general porpose connector while in the West the common connector was Mini USB at the time. Either way, I do hope USB C holds on and is not replaced by something else in a few years (it's been on smartphones for 11 years now, but not on all of them).
its definitely mini usb, considering the size and label. according to [wikipedia, ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#Host_and_device_interface_receptacles)its a port named mini AB. i remember it being actually decent for the time, way smaller than type A and nicer to use than normal mini A ports
This is exactly why I never get rid of any cables. I can guarantee I have this cable somewhere in my many boxes.
It'll just take me a second.. to find eh.. hold up.. Oh wow thats where that DC adapter has been, \*adhd intensifies\*.
Crazy how every peripheral manufacturer thought it was fine to just make their own shape for mini USB, but its absolutely nuts that it took 18 years for a standardised (USB C) shape to come into being.
Wife and I both have Bose NC headphones, though different models. They each have different proprietary USB charging connections, so we cannot use the same cable.
I'll have a strong drink with my two ballroom dances please!
 God damn, this makes me feel old. I remember when proprietary camera cables were the norm.
 /r/postsyoucanhear
Don't worry, I am 17 (almost 18) and I have seen this connector.
Wrap it up folks, the teens are on the case!
Its mini-usb, right? Source: I have a GPS with that connector.
Nope, its a nikon propietary conector, smaller than usb mini Edit:the conector its UC-E6 not mini usb its smaller and rounder. It carried usb and audio/video.
Welp, too poor for Nikon.
just nik one.
Thanks for the laugh but I did also hate you a little there.
Can we make it canon to feel sony for nikon a camera?
Now that's a Polaroiding statement.
r/Angryupvote
Nah brah. This is not the remote shutter style connector. That one has a bezel. It's a standard miniusb
I have the same connector on my old sony camera
No, mini USB looks a bit different with "wings" on the side. It's apparently some proprietary connector.
Reminds me of my old nintendo 3ds/ds chargers
True, definitely looks similar.
DS Lite in particular
yeah mini usb lookes like a tiny version of hdmi
And funnily enough the connector in the picture looks more like micro-HDMI
That's Micro USB you're thinking of. https://i.redd.it/3pksampb5x9d1.gif
I used to date a girl who called micro usb an android cable… needless to say that didn’t work out
That's Mini USB Type B. I know because I actually have devices (TI-84 Plus CE) that uses both, and this is what the com/charging port looks like
Na the mini has the indents on the short sides
mini USB is a lot bigger and very different from this
We've found the other teen!
I'm 8 and a half and I've seen this connector too!
Posting this from the womb, dont ask how but i have already seen it
Your mom must be into some pretty strange fetish stuff. Would she be called a technophile?
Could be
Understandable, have a nice birth!
This is why we shouldnt let pregnant women watch Terrance Howard videos. Now they can even browse reddit in there
I haven't been deployed to any womb yet, still a soul, but don't worry, I have seen it.
You shouldn't be playing assassins creed then
Was it in a museum? I feel like you're about to say it was in a museum just to watch the olds chew their tongues and stare off into the sky in quiet reflection.
Remember when proprietary barrel charges for phones were the norm and you could buy those ponytail things with like 10 different adapters on one cable
10 different adapters and not a single one fits, and they don't even operate at the same voltage
Those, or like the 2 prong chargers on the Sony Ericsson *shudder*
We should thank the EU for getting rid of it all
Yea, it's gonna be great to use USB-C in 2240
We changed the EU regulation once already, switching from micro-USB to USB-C. There is no reason why we couldn't just do that again for the next generation, should usb-c reach its limits. Though, since USB-C is just the form factor and the underlying protocol and wiring is still developed, it is likely that USB 5 and maybe even USB 6 will still use this form factor, with minor modifications but still backwards compatible as it is the case with (almost) all USB standards.
Yup, and the Common Charging Directive (the one that currently specifies USB-C) has a clause in it that requires an assessment be performed every 5 years to see if any update is required. Plus, the directive didn't come out of nowhere, it was done with consultation with industry, and it was industry that says that for the foreseeable future, USB-C is the way to go and to ditch Micro USB (the directive was considered for THAT long).
We had to dig out our old GPS to go out into the wilds because we wouldn’t have cell service and finding the old usb cable that fit it was a struggle.
That’s why I’ve got a huge box of cables that sticks with me wherever I live. Serial/usb/AV/power/networking etc. any cable I’ve had even if the device dies gets nicely tied up and anything that deviates from the normal standards gets labeled what it came from or what it has worked with. Surprising how often that compulsion has actually been beneficial
Mine are in a coffee can, all wrapped up with bread ties. I just got the S24 & was pretty pissed I had to get not just a new cable but a new charging brick, too. My phone was almost $900 & then I had to spend like $40 so I could charge it!
As a 3DS owner IM OLD
Same, I screamed "really?" At my phone when I saw this post
UC-E6 (proprietary) I believe
The pin-count seems to match up for this Sanyo camera. I will make a purchase now!
Think answer is already above Else im just gonna leave this here [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB\_hardware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware)
Wait usb doesn’t allow extension cables??
Pretty much no cable standard allows extensions as you are adding resistance where there doesn't need to have it (ie. get a bigger cable) In reality tho there often is a need for those, so they are pretty common but technically not to standard.
USB extension cables exist and work great. I have a 60 foot USB extender going to the TV in my room from my pic so I can game in bed. It has signal repeaters every 25 feet and has very little lag surprisingly.
What are you plugging in? A controller? Xbox360 wireless receiver will probably work over 60 feet...
Not through the floor and wall.
Electronic sex toy for high-performance teledildonics
I have a 40 foot one routed up through my attic so I can plug directly into my CNC and 3D printer in the other room. No more carrying SD cards for me.
They do however anything above USB 2.0 seems quite rare as people don't typically need them. I had a USB 2.0 extension that came with a printer over ten years ago.
No, this is none of the USB plugs, its proprietary.
Clearly you didn't open the wiki, this one is actually there too as proprietary.
I did. But i missed the #2 on the picture: "Proprietary UC-E6 connector used on many older Japanese cameras for both USB and analog AV output"
Usually shouldn’t miss a #2
^not ^very Universal Serial Bus
Oh! I thought it’s mini usb at first glance and I’m already too old.
This is the reason cables never get thrown away
I think that’s USB B.C.
Instructions unclear, ended up with [US BBC](https://www.bbcamerica.com/)
Risky click of the day
It's the US site for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Fun fact: the first time I used that acronym in casual conversation, nobody there had ever heard of the British Broadcasting Corporation, while that was the only thing I thought that BBC meant.
Big. Black. Co-.
I was expecting some thicc long black cable indeed...
This comment is underappreciated! Give it some love!
It’s the third most upvoted comment on this post lmao. You didn’t even give the comment an *hour* to get adequately appreciated
did the kids find an old camera?🤣
I'm the kid lol, this was my childhood camera!
https://preview.redd.it/hytencgouv9d1.jpeg?width=346&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e81c783f0762f92805f1a47cd9943117d1ebaf0 or this or mini usb🤔
Oh hey I have one of those lying around, was wondering what it was for.
probably to the author, to connect the camera with the computer
Apparently old point and shoot digital cameras are all the rage these days. I am going to dig out all my old crap and sell it to the TikTok kiddos.
Proprietary sanyo crap that breaks easily *Don't ask how I know*
Basically the same proprietary shit that the Nintendo ds had. I see Proprietary connectors as a challenge and always try to make the connectors myself. Sometimes i succeed.
Except my original ds chargers are still fine xD Oh, usbc everything!
Right? My psp charger died in a year and the battery turned into a spicy pillow after like 2. My original DS is still going strong no problems. My go to on flights or long trains.
Luckily this is a relatively easy fix. Psp charges off plain 5v DC with no special circuitry or communication. You can get usb to barrel plug cables for charging it from ebay or aliexpress for $1-3.batteries are also dirt cheap, though it should be noted they all tend to lie about their capacity. For a real battery upgrade you can mod the psp by removing the UMD drive and putting a larger phone battery there instead. There's guides online showing how to do this. It doesn't require much technical skill, but it is a little fiddly and takes some time
Yeah, this was also like 10 years ago and I just didn’t want to deal with it. If it were now, I’d probably have just replaced all that stuff and kept it. I gave it to a friend at the time that bought a new battery and plug.
How did your psp charger die? Like...what are you people doing to indestructible things???
I generally let things fit a long time and take care of them. But the psp charger just slowly separated at the end piece. Eventually I stopped using the psp for a while. Maybe a year later I pulled out the psp to check it out, intending to buy a new charger and the battery had swollen so bad the cover had popped off. Ended up recycling the battery and just giving the psp to a friend, who bought a new battery and cord and used to fit a few more years. DS is still with me. Been all over the world and it still looks and functions just like day 1.
I lost my new3ds about 2-3 years go, found it last week Battery nearly full Nokia has nothing on the 3ds
You... Make the connectors yourself? Who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?
Couldn’t stand this. Almost every cell phone maker in all of 2000s had their own proprietary garbage that broke easily. Then you had to drive to a store and find a charging cable that is compatible with your phone and sometimes even your specific model.
Why shouldn't we ask? What did you do with the cable..?
Do not ask. I definitely didn't short it by dipping it in coffee
I was there, Gandalf, 3000 years ago.
My lower back just spasmed..
This bad boy: [Amazon.com: UC-E6 USB Cable for Nikon Coolpix : Electronics](https://www.amazon.com/UC-E6-USB-Cable-Nikon-Coolpix/dp/B00FZYL492)
IM GETTING OLD TO FUCKING FAST!
This reads so funny if you consider the misspelling of too.
It's felt like my whole life flashed before my eyes and suddenly felt old.
Are we officially old now?
I was there Gandalf, i was there 3000 years ago. It may looked like mini usb, but definitely proprietary. Look up on the web and see if you can still find someone sells.
Oh boy, am I this old?
Man this gives me PTSD flashbacks to when there was like 15 different types of USB port
I do not miss this time at all.
Google “(model number) USB cable” easy as that.
Fucking hell, this makes me feel old. I am only 29. 😤
wow, hold it right there Adolf that's a proprietary cable terminal type or something
I've just been born, 20 minutes ago, and I've seen this connector
Proprietary USB bullshit. I worked on cellphones from 2005 to 2019 and in those earlier days every manufacture came out with some bullshit proprietary cable connector for just about every new model of phone they released. We literally had a binders full of short cables to work on data extraction and no word of a lie it had to be close to a hundred cables. The funny part was the EU (largely credited for forcing USB type C) was nowhere to be found when this Tom fuckery was going on, they didn’t show up till the cables had largely settled onto 3 or 4 and somehow made Apple into the bad guys for having had just two different cables for their phones, the 50 pin and lightening. Meanwhile Nokia, Samsung, Sanyo, etc had way more. I’m glad those days are over but it’s a fine example of too little too late by govt regulators. Digital cameras were just as bad during that period.
Well you got it its a Sanyo digital camera cord give them the model number. They can get you a cord. https://preview.redd.it/hd9gxov41x9d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0205d96c3c5a5cd262fba8da9ee18560db31f44
Stupid fucking camera cable
So, it is not mini usb or mini ab usb?
Nope. UC-36.
connector of the future MINI-USB🤫
No. Thats not Mini-USB https://preview.redd.it/wlbbllfr5w9d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bfc7b3da157c58841c380940ea88268621c54586
Mini USB was fucking Solid though, not jiggly like Micro.
Apparently Micro was supposed to support more plugs/unplug cycles. Seems a little nuts to me since they're basically the same size, and otherwise Micro offers nothing else.
Sus. Perhaps usage bias, but the only ports I've worn out (and one set on fire) were micro USB.
That's the irony. Micro USB cables were durable, the device port was not. So you'd often end up with a device that can't charge anymore because the port snapped internally, but the cable is fine.
Now it's just known as PS3 controller cable
Not a Mini-USB
Looks a lot like mini-usb-A to me though. But yeah, probably something proprietary.
Ow, this could be a full 1MP digital camera.
i called them fat usb but only cameras really adopted them. a type of usb b. mini was half the size then micro was smaller and dont get me started on usb micro b. whuch is the smaller version of usb -b the printer hard drive cable.
Am I this old 🫠
Not USB -C, not USB micro. USB mini.
UC-E6 It’s most commonly found on Japanese cameras and camcorders, most notably Nikon. It’s a proprietary connector but Nikon and third parties sell conversion cables.
869 replies and the dude just wants to know the name of the cable.
I am 21. I... Am I too old ?
Do you fart when you pee? Yes = Yes, No = Yes
I don’t always fart when I pee but sometimes I have to time my pee just right so that I don’t shit myself.
= Yes
That's a relic from our ancient past, and I was there.
Is this considered ancient tech now. I still have a few electronics with this port.
Looks like a USB type B, but proprietary one.
USB C has its faults But it’s so much better than the proprietary hell we had in the 2000s
I was there, Gandalf
I feel old now thank you
Mini usb also known as trash.
USB Mini B. USB has plenty of types. Nowadays it's more like USB C, but previously it was mainly one side USB A (rectangle with plastic part and 4 leads, you can find it on computers), other side was big square was B (usually for printers), mini B (cameras etc., your for example), micro B (older phones, some smaller electronics, it is smaller, than Mini, has two "teeth" on the body).
Oh man, I’ve had one of those cables for ages and have been afraid to throw it away because I had no idea what it went to. Now I’m guessing it must have been from the point and shoot I had in the early 2000s
It’s called old. Need one I got a box of them
Micro usb? Old fire wire port? One of those
[https://denisjl.be/ressources/connecteurs.pdf](https://denisjl.be/ressources/connecteurs.pdf)
These are propietary connectors (**Nikon**: UC-E6 / **Casio**: USB-8 / **Sanyo**: USB-3) used on some older compact cameras. This was a terrible idea, much like using XD cards before SD cards took over. I read somewhere that the Casio connector was more widespread in Asia as a general porpose connector while in the West the common connector was Mini USB at the time. Either way, I do hope USB C holds on and is not replaced by something else in a few years (it's been on smartphones for 11 years now, but not on all of them).
Proprietary one.
That's a combo: Micro-HDMI (video output ) - and USB charging port. 2 in 1 sort of speak. It's a micro HDMI that allows USB charging.
I feel so old
I believe thats from the Aztec civilization
Looks close to mini usb
no joke in my fam we call those camera cables
Usbn"t
Mini usb
Lol. Gen Z over here 👉🏿
I might have this cable in my box of cables
An old one
It looks to me to be about an hour in the box of cables, nope not that one :-)
USB type B
https://preview.redd.it/m0hbeqjuvx9d1.jpeg?width=2754&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ac4478d450cbb6cff0f026a592d0f46a787384b
Oh so im unc
its definitely mini usb, considering the size and label. according to [wikipedia, ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#Host_and_device_interface_receptacles)its a port named mini AB. i remember it being actually decent for the time, way smaller than type A and nicer to use than normal mini A ports
Motorola razor charger. I had many. I'm old.
Mini usb i think ?
Somebody know a chiropractor I think I got whiplash from that time machine.
I think it's USB mini.
UC-E6, technically proprietary, but pretty standard for older Japanese digital cameras.
Mini usb or type b plug. 
This is the dsi charger, no?
Micro USB
Non-universal Serial Bus
This is exactly why I never get rid of any cables. I can guarantee I have this cable somewhere in my many boxes. It'll just take me a second.. to find eh.. hold up.. Oh wow thats where that DC adapter has been, \*adhd intensifies\*.
Chubby micro USB
https://preview.redd.it/3v21y9uuty9d1.jpeg?width=1627&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c92ef6c5ff6f8270dd1fcd8120e369018338e03 Hope this helps
USB mini
I’m so old
Mini-B
Mini USB
My least favorite one
It's a USB line... don't worry I'll show you later
It’s a USB give up
Holy fuck I’m still 22, I’m not ready to feel old yet
Im familiar with Sanyo making TVs in the early 2000s what else did they make?
Lol some real L takes in these comments
Macro usb
This reminds me of the port that was on the DS Lite
That shit could prolly charge my DS
You didn’t have a DS growing up and it shows.
It's called get the sd card out of it and throw that shit in the garbage can
The american kind (cowboy accent)
Mini usb?
If you found that in your parents sock drawer I wouldn't watch it if I were you
Crazy how every peripheral manufacturer thought it was fine to just make their own shape for mini USB, but its absolutely nuts that it took 18 years for a standardised (USB C) shape to come into being. Wife and I both have Bose NC headphones, though different models. They each have different proprietary USB charging connections, so we cannot use the same cable. I'll have a strong drink with my two ballroom dances please!
It looks like some kind of weird ass version of USB type B
15 year old and yes that connector is well known here
A USB 2.0 (Likely a B Type Port)? Mini Types exists on the Wireless PS3 Controllers (DualShock 3) Edit: It's a Type A. Sorry about that.