mike wrote:
> Matt Ion wrote:
>
>> mike wrote:
>>
>>> Need Pinout for USB cable for Kodak DC280
>>> Need to build a cable.
>>> Yes, I have the serial pinout.
>>> Yes, I have a card reader.
>>> What I need is the USB info.
>>> Thanks, mike
>>
>>
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>> http://pinouts.ru/Slots/USB_pinout.shtml
>
> Thanks,
>
> When I asked for the USB pinout for a Kodak DC280,
> I should have been clear that I wanted the pinout
> for the end that plugs into the camera.
> It appears that it shares the mini-DIN-8 serial
> connector.
Well that's just crazy design... the whole point of USB (well, part of it
anyway) is to get away from needing a plethora of proprietary connectors for
everything (I'm still amazed it took celphone makers so long to use a standard
USB plug for phone software - I've got a half-dozen different cables for a
half-dozen different phones, three of them the same brand).
Sorry, don't think I can help ya there, then... I'd call up Kodak and give them
an earful...
FWIW, I googled "kodak dc280 usb pinouts" and got a ton of hits - including one
at the site above - showing the actual pinouts of the DIN plug, but all them
appear to connect to a standard DB9 serial port (which was a lot more common
"back in the day"). You can't connect that directly into a USB port, however -
you'd need to use a USB-to-DB9 serial adapter, which typically have, I believe,
some sort of buffer circuitry - they're not just straight-through wires.