Help, Help, Help.............Please (Page 2): Thanks to all who viewed and commented. I am very grateful and chuffed to bits with all your responses. If I hadn't posted the thread I...

Graham Thirkill Loc: Idylic North Yorkshire, England UK.

MT Shooter wrote:

It's the USB3 cable that came with your 5DSR body. The plastic piece is a keeper to hold it in place when tethering.

Thanks to all who viewed and commented. I am very grateful and chuffed to bits with all your responses. If I hadn't posted the thread I would probably never ever have bothered to use the cable/accessory.
I will use it now as it has lots of uses, one being eliminating having to use a card reader, which sometimes is a pain in the bum. The cable must have come wigth the EOS 5D SR I can't see that it could be
used with my 7D. Thanks again to all.

Cheers and Beers
Graham/098\

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jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Kmgw9v wrote:

I have a box of cables from different devices that I have never used.

I've started labeling cables because they look so much alike. USB cables for cameras are too varied and too similar.

CatMarley Loc: North Carolina

Graham Thirkill wrote:

I cannot remember what this is for. It is from a Canon Product but I have never used
it and I can't remember what it is for. I feel certain I will get the help I need from you
guys and gals on here. Many thanks in anticipation............

PS It's an age thing????????????

Cheers and Beers
Graham/098\

Give is a better picture of the two ends of the cable and someone can tell you.

Graham Thirkill Loc: Idylic North Yorkshire, England UK.

CatMarley wrote:

Give is a better picture of the two ends of the cable and someone can tell you.

They already have helpled me, thank you very much. Fully explained in my earlier message.

"Quote
Thanks to all who viewed and commented. I am very grateful and chuffed to bits with all your responses. If I hadn't posted the thread I would probably never ever have bothered to use the cable/accessory.
I will use it now as it has lots of uses, one being eliminating having to use a card reader, which sometimes is a pain in the bum. The cable must have come wigth the EOS 5D SR I can't see that it could be
used with my 7D. Thanks again to all. Quote"

Cheers and Beers
Graham/098\

pithydoug Loc: Catskill Mountains, NY

Graham Thirkill wrote:

I cannot remember what this is for. It is from a Canon Product but I have never used
it and I can't remember what it is for. I feel certain I will get the help I need from you
guys and gals on here. Many thanks in anticipation............

PS It's an age thing????????????

Cheers and Beers
Graham/098\

Is this really one cable? Looks like three ends. One looks like an old printer type connector, one USB and can't tell what the lower right connector is, male or female.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

LFingar wrote:

It's definitely USB on one end. The other end is slightly different. Not sure if it is a USB connection or not. It's not a mini USB plug and every Canon I can think of uses the mini plug. Do you know what camera the cord came with? Is it possible it is from something besides a camera, such as a printer?

Naw!!! Look closely. It's got 2 ends that appear to be USB2 or USB3 (could be one of each) and one end that looks large enough to connect to an old printer that hasn't gone USB yet.

Throw it away! As soon as you do then you'll need it and then you'll know exactly what it goes to. Next time, take a better picture or several pictures of it. I can't tell if the 2 USB ends are different/same/ connected in a 'Y' fashion, or what.

If you ask me, it's a printer cable.

Graham Thirkill Loc: Idylic North Yorkshire, England UK.

jeep_daddy wrote:

Naw!!! Look closely. It's got 2 ends that appear to be USB2 or USB3 (could be one of each) and one end that looks large enough to connect to an old printer that hasn't gone USB yet.

Throw it away! As soon as you do then you'll need it and then you'll know exactly what it goes to. Next time, take a better picture or several pictures of it. I can't tell if the 2 USB ends are different/same/ connected in a 'Y' fashion, or what.

If you ask me, it's a printer cable.

Already explained in my two previous messages, see the cable fitted to the Canon EOS 5D SR. "Hoggers" who "Know" were spot on and certainly know their stuff.

Cheers and Beers
Graham/098\

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

jerryc41 wrote:

I've started labeling cables because they look so much alike. USB cables for cameras are too varied and too similar.

Good advice, Jerry. Camera USB sockets are definitely not standardized. The socket on my wife's Kodak Z950 is .076mm wider than that on my Nikon Df, barely detectable with the naked eye even when the plugs are held against one another for comparison, yet probably enough to cause damage if the wrong one is used. And the cables themselves are almost identical. Use caution with other cables as well, the AC adapter plugs for my ring-light and microscope are identical, but one is 15 volts, the other 3 volts. Both are also very similar to the AC adapter plug for my Fujifilm S3 Pro.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

LFingar wrote:

It's definitely USB on one end. The other end is slightly different. Not sure if it is a USB connection or not. It's not a mini USB plug and every Canon I can think of uses the mini plug. Do you know what camera the cord came with? Is it possible it is from something besides a camera, such as a printer?

It is a mini USB 3.0 plug. The gismo around it is a strain relief appliance that attaches to cameras like the Canon 7D Mark II. I have one.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

Graham Thirkill wrote:

Already explained in my two previous messages, see the cable fitted to the Canon EOS 5D SR. "Hoggers" who "Know" were spot on and certainly know their stuff.

Cheers and Beers
Graham/098\

Glad it was identified before you threw it away. I always throw them away and then discover what it's for soon after.

cambriaman Loc: Central CA Coast

Looks like you got a specific answer. I was going to say that if it has a USB on one end and an HDMI on the other it is made to comnnect your camera to either a computer or a television. I am not sure what TVs in the UK have for an interface but I am sure it is not the same as in USA where I am.
Just trying to help.

Dziadzi Loc: Wilkes-Barre, PA

I am surprised at the number of ppl who believe that the one end is USB 3.0, How did you arrive at that conclusion? I don't see any blue on the connector.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

Dziadzi wrote:

I am surprised at the number of ppl who believe that the one end is USB 3.0, How did you arrive at that conclusion? I don't see any blue on the connector.

Because I have the same cable and connector for my Canon 7D Mark II and it is USB 3.0. and regardless of what you are seeing in the photo, the inside of the USB connector is blue. That specific connection appliance, which screws into the camera body, was only added after Canon started using the mini USB 3.0 port.

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

mwsilvers wrote:

It is a mini USB 3.0 plug. The gismo around it is a strain relief appliance that attaches to cameras like the Canon 7D Mark II. I have one.

Yeah, I have a 7DII also, but I have no idea where that particular cord is. Probably the last time I saw it when I stuck it back in the box after I unpacked the camera. Now, if I could just find the box......

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

In addition to the points above, I think you can use this to connect your computer to your flat screen television to display your computer screen onto your television. Connect the usb to the computer, and the multi-pin connector to the tv. You may need to add an adapter to change the gender of the multi-pin end. With the tv remote select PC as your input device.