CCJ connector
{{Short description|Analog video connector}}
{{Infobox connector
|name = CCJ connector
|type = DIN-style connector
|image = CCJ connector close-up.jpg
|caption = Close-up view of a CCJ connector manufactured by Hirose from a 1985 Sylvania video camera
|designer = Sony
|design_date = {{circa}} 1969
|manufacturer = Various, mainly Hirose Electric Group{{rp|63}}
}}
The CCJ connector (short for Camera Cable type J{{cite web | last=Seifert | first=Tim | date=June 1, 2022 | url=https://www.cameratim.com/electronics/camera-connectors | title=Camera connectors | work=Camera Tim | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622174658/https://www.cameratim.com/electronics/camera-connectors | archivedate=June 22, 2023}}), also known as a J-type connector{{cite journal | last=Emmerson | first=Andrew | date=July 1994 | url=https://archive.org/details/electronics-the-maplin-magazine/Maplin-Electronics-1994-07-079/ | title=Making the Right Connections in Video | journal=Maplin Electronics | number=79 | page=59–63, 69 | via=the Internet Archive}}{{rp|62–63}} or an EIAJ connector,{{cite book | last=Heverly | first=Frank W. | date=1986 | title=Handbook of Video Camera Servicing and Troubleshooting Techniques | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mp9tAAAAIAAJ&q=%22eiaj%22+%2210+pin%22 | publisher=Prentice-Hall | isbn=9780133827897 | via=Google Books}}{{rp|192}} is the specification for a 10-pin DIN-style connector established by member companies of the Electronic Industries Association of Japan (EIAJ) in the late 1960s to interconnect various pieces of video camera equipment.{{rp|192}}{{rp|149}}{{cite book | last=Bensinger | first=Charles | date=1982 | url=https://archive.org/details/videoguide0000bens/page/193/ | title=The Video Guide | publisher=H. W. Sams | isbn=9780672220517 | via=the Internet Archive}}{{rp|193}} Within Japanese-built video camera equipment built from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, the CCJ connector was especially widely used to connect video cameras to video tape recorders (VTRs), especially battery-powered portable VTRs—so-called portapacks—which were common before the dawn of camcorders, which married both the camera and the VTR.{{rp|63}}{{rp|149}}{{cite book | last=Murray | first=Michael | date=1974 | url=https://archive.org/details/videotakebook0000mich/ | title=The Videotape Book | publisher=Bantam Books | isbn=080088020X | via=the Internet Archive}}{{rp|63–64}}
History
The CCJ connector was developed in the late 1960s alongside the EIAJ-1 specification for open reel video tape. Both standards enabled non-broadcast-professional enthusiasts and industrial prosumers alike to use any competitor's consumer video camera equipment without having to worrying about interoperability in most cases, largely (but not entirely) escaping the vendor lock-in situation present in the field in the earlier portion of the 1960s.{{cite book | last=Robinson | first=Richard | date=1983 | url=https://archive.org/details/videoprimerequip0000robi_3/page/172/ | title=The Video Primer: Equipment, Production, and Concepts | edition=Third | publisher=Perigee Books | isbn=9780399506987 | via=Google Books}}{{rp|149–150}}{{cite book | last=Anderson | first=Chuck | date=1975 | url=https://archive.org/details/videopowergrassr0000ande/ | title=Video Power: Grass Roots Television | publisher=Praeger Publishers | isbn=027526050X | via=the Internet Archive}}{{rp|183}}{{cite book | last=Clifford | first=Martin | date=1987 | url=https://archive.org/details/electronicconnec0000clif/ | title=Electronic Connections: Home and Car Entertainment Systems | publisher=Prentice-Hall | isbn=0132504995 | via=the Internet Archive}}{{rp|81–82}} Despite being used by many Japanese manufacturers—including but not limited to Sony, Panasonic, Akai, Hitachi, and JVC{{rp|193}}{{rp|183}}—for their video camera and tape equipment, the invention of CCJ is largely attributed to Sony.{{rp|193}}
Specification
A typical CCJ connector for a video camera has a 10-pin DIN-style plug on both ends. All CCJ connectors are keyed with a notch on the north end of the connector preventing it from being plugged in upside-down.{{rp|193}} For most black and white video cameras, a CCJ cable has separate conductors for the video signal, the audio signal, the horizontal and vertical sync signals, a remote control signal (for trigger the stopping and starting recording from the camera rather than the VTR), a +12 V DC power wire, and a ground wire.{{rp|183}}{{rp|192}} While most black and white video cameras conform to a standard pinout,{{rp|63}}{{rp|192}} not all do,{{rp|172}}{{cite book | last=Bishop | first=John Melville | date=1980 | url=https://archive.org/details/makinghomevideoh00bish/page/24/ | title=Making Home Video: How to Get the Most from Your Video Cassette Recording Equipment | publisher=Wideview Books | pages=24–25 | isbn=9780872236301 | via=the Internet Archive}}{{rp|24–25}} and with the advent of cameras and portapacks that could record color signals onto EIAJ-1 tape, the pinouts began to diverge greatly.
References
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External links
- [https://www.labguysworld.com/Connectors.htm "Extinct Video Tape Recorder Connectors"] by Richard N. Diehl
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Category:Analog video connectors
Category:Audiovisual connectors