Type | DIN-style connector | ||
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Production history | |||
Designer | Sony | ||
Designed | c. 1969 | ||
Manufacturer | Various, mainly Hirose Electric Group[1]: 63 |
The CCJ connector (short for Camera Cable type J[2]), also known as a J-type connector[1]: 62–63 or an EIAJ connector,[3]: 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.[3]: 192 [4]: 149 [5]: 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.[1]: 63 [4]: 149 [6]: 63–64
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