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Subject: [Leica] X-Pro 1 USB adapters
From: dstella1 at ameritech.net (Dante Stella)
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 23:01:19 -0400
References: <5573168A.7030401@summaventures.com> <CAJ4y7gyZ0CmBJcuFgGktZOcXzT4ywnPjmB_JhnfX5y=rEitzNQ@mail.gmail.com> <55731F08.7010201@lighttube.net> <55732051.5070703@lighttube.net>

The U.S. name is Micro USB. Take your camera to CVS or some other drugstore 
and try one of the cords they sell for cell phones.

Dante

> On Jun 6, 2015, at 12:31 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> I  should have added that I tried it on my X-E1.  I don't own an X-Pro 1.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
> On 6/6/2015 11:25 AM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>> I found a posting on the Fujix-forum that says the X-Pro 1 and X-E1 use a 
>> "USB 2.0 mini B" connector.  I never use a cable, but found mine.  On the 
>> black part of the plug, behind the USB symbol, it has "B" engraved in the 
>> plug.
>> 
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> 
>> On 6/6/2015 11:09 AM, Robert Baron wrote:
>>> Peter, where are you?  Can you call or do a chat session with B&H when 
>>> they
>>> reopen from their Saturday closing?
>>> 
>>> --Bob
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at 
>>> summaventures.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> All,
>>>> 
>>>> I find myself away from home unexpectedly because of a burst pipe which
>>>> has rendered home uninhabitable for a few weeks. I came away in a hurry 
>>>> and
>>>> forgot the cable that links my X-Pro 1 to USB. None of the adapters I 
>>>> have
>>>> with me is the correct fit. Can anyone tell me what it should be?
>>>> 
>>>> For info:
>>>> 
>>>> According to at least one of the Fuji fora ( <
>>>> http://www.fujix-forum.com/index.php/topic/15799-usb-connectors-xe2-vs-xpro-1/>
>>>>  
>>>> )it is a USB (standard) to USB micro B connector.  According to others 
>>>> it
>>>> is mini-B. I looked at the size and various online sources and went out 
>>>> and
>>>> bought a micro-B as it looked the most plausible...it doesn't fit, it's 
>>>> too
>>>> big.
>>>> 
>>>> I guess that there are two possibilities: firstly that mini is smaller
>>>> than micro and a mini B would fit; secondly - and this is what I fear -
>>>> that the camera end is proprietary (Fuji state that the connector to a
>>>> computer is a USB connector in the manual. I think that in order to be 
>>>> able
>>>> to say it is a USB connector only one end has to be USB - it doesn't
>>>> necessarily imply both ends are USB connectors)
>>>> 
>>>> Anybody any thoughts? I know from same source that it is the same 
>>>> coupler
>>>> as for the X-100 .
>>>> 
>>>> Peter
>>>> 
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Message from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] X-Pro 1 USB adapters)