Can you ID this socket on my digicam?

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Can someone help me ID this socket on my camera.

In the base of my Casio digital camera is a socket which I can connect to
my PC's USB port (or using another lead I can connect to my television's
video and audio phono sockets).

You can see the socket he
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2006_...z60_bottom.jpg

The camera spec unhelpfully calls it a "USB/AV connector".

What sort of socket is this on my camera?
Is it a mini USB or perhaps an HDMI socket?

My Casio EX-Z500 looks the same, only a different color.

It's the camera's docking port. You should have a cradle in the same
box the camera came out of. The cradle has a matching plug. The
cradle is the USB connector, A/V connector, and charger.

My cradle also has two buttons on the front. One labeled "Photo" for
pict-bridge type transfers (which I don't use) and one labeled "USB"
which turns the camera into a mass storage device giving drive letter
access to the memory card.

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It is alleged that Meep claimed:

Can someone help me ID this socket on my camera.

In the base of my Casio digital camera is a socket which I can
connect to my PC's USB port (or using another lead I can connect to
my television's video and audio phono sockets).

You can see the socket he
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2006_...z60_bottom.jpg

The camera spec unhelpfully calls it a "USB/AV connector".

What sort of socket is this on my camera?
Is it a mini USB or perhaps an HDMI socket?


Jeffrey Kaplan wrote

My Casio EX-Z500 looks the same, only a different color.

It's the camera's docking port. You should have a cradle in the
same box the camera came out of. The cradle has a matching plug.
The cradle is the USB connector, A/V connector, and charger.


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I am the OP.

My EX-Z60 is a model for the European market and (sad but true) does
not actually come with the docking station as standard in the box.

However even that would not really help because I would like to be in a
position where I could just buy a suitable lead from the PC store if I
am away from home and forget my Casio lead. Then I could transfer/view
pictures from the camera.

It seems that in order to do this I would have to order the correct
lead from Casio.

I guess a poor alternative is to physically remove the SD memory card
and place it in a PC-attached card reader. But that still does not
allow me to replay stills and movies from the camera onto the TV.

GRRRR!

There *must* (mustn't there) be a plug which goes into that socket
without damaging it?
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2006_...z60_bottom.jpg

It is alleged that Meep claimed:

It's the camera's docking port. You should have a cradle in the
same box the camera came out of. The cradle has a matching plug.
The cradle is the USB connector, A/V connector, and charger.

My EX-Z60 is a model for the European market and (sad but true) does
not actually come with the docking station as standard in the box.

Bummer. I had verified with the salescritter before buying mine that
it came with the appropriate connectors.

However even that would not really help because I would like to be in a
position where I could just buy a suitable lead from the PC store if I
am away from home and forget my Casio lead. Then I could transfer/view
pictures from the camera.

Sorry to say, but if that is a priority for you, then you should have
checked into that +before+ buying the camera. Considering the form
factor, and not having actually looked into it, my +guess+ is that no
sub/ultra compact camera will do that.

It seems that in order to do this I would have to order the correct
lead from Casio.

Yep.

If you don't have a cradle, and from context it sounds like you don't
have the correct cable either, how are you managing now?

There *must* (mustn't there) be a plug which goes into that socket
without damaging it?

Sure there is. Check casio.com.

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