Building video cable for Kodak DC280

Introduction

I recently got Kodak DC280 digital camera with no video-cable. I thought it would be very nice if I could watch taken pictures from TV and decided to try build my own cable since commercial cables are ridiculous expensive. I assumed that camera will provide composite video and learned that connector at camera is 2.5mm mono-plug. One could assume that stereo-plug would work also, but it seems camera detects if right kind of plug is plugged since stereo-plug will work if you short-circuit GND and R. It is also possible that there should be resistor or something between GND and R, so please read disclaimer (or if you have factory-made cable, please inform me).

Building cable

Parts needed:

• 2.5mm male mono-plug
• RCA male plug
• 75 ohm coaxial cable (like normal antenna cable - or in fact even razor wire will do since cable will be so short)

Try to get as thin coaxial cable as possible, since fat cable probably wont fit into plugs and they are pain to solder. Building cable is extremely simple, you have just to connect ground and signal from 2.5mm plug to RCA-plug. That's it, most tricky part is soldering wires to that damned 2.5mm plug!

Compatibility

Probably this cable works in most of cameras having 2.5mm mono-plug as video-out.

See also

My serial cable -project for DC280.

Disclaimer

I take no responsibility if you build your cable using these instructions. I am not sure if they are some electronics in official cable and you can easily burn you camera if something goes wrong (wrong wiring, some kind of electronics in official cable, suns pots etc.). So everything you do, you do at you own risk!