Canon camera USB cable - generic or hard to find?

[MrClose]

Originally Posted by CHTransplant

Despite the claim to be a standard mini USB connection, I've found over the years that there are often slight variations in the size or shape of one device's connector vs. another's, such that the cable for one doesn't work for the other.

Exactly!

As I had said .. All three of my Olympus cameras .. purchased around the same time, have a differently shaped or different size connector for the camera side.

[Brill]

Originally Posted by CHTransplant

Despite the claim to be a standard mini USB connection, I've found over the years that there are often slight variations in the size or shape of one device's connector vs. another's, such that the cable for one doesn't work for the other.

I have 4 canon cameras and all of them use a standard usb cable.

[MrClose]

Originally Posted by Brill

I have 4 canon cameras and all of them use a standard usb cable.

Again, it isn't the cable that is in depute, it's the connectors on the end!

It may be the same on canons (which I agree, the topic was on) but as far as other brands .. not always the same.

I only brought it up because others that don't have a canon will probably read the thread and think that all of them are the same.