I have a Canon DSLR with a USB mini-B jack, I practice the camera remotely and images can transfer. I use e.g. A wireless control unit quite often or connect the camera to the laptop.
Unfortunately, this socket is worn out in the course of time, also by the rather puny bearing surfaces of this small connector and the movements of the cable, so it occasionally comes to Unterbrechngen. Unfortunately, often when it bothers most.
Does anyone know any tips or tricks on how to get such a socket (without an expensive repair) back to good contacts?
Generally you should insert a cable in between such connections and then use the connection. A cable costs only a few euro and can be replaced more easily than a socket on the motherboard. So you only have the option to use a suitable USB adapter cable for the other existing USB sockets and to live with the loss of speed. Or to replace a part in a repair center (workshop) such a part but then the warranty for the product expires.
Yes, the most natural thing would be to replace the defective USB Mini-B socket with a new one. For this you have to have some skill and equipment.
I would like to say bring the camera to a repair cafe. I'm even active in such. Hardly anything has the time and tools to do it.
If someone with similar problems comes to work in one of them, I'll take it home with them.
Only, it is still questionable whether the socket must be replaced with your camera, or if only a connection to the socket is interrupted. The latter would be feasible in Repaircafe.
Try a search engine to find a repair café near your home and go there. Otherwise P.N.
Somehow you did not understand my question correctly. What good is a (further) cable if the socket is worn out for this? Warranty is long gone and a repair costs about 120 euro, which would still be worthwhile. (EOS 60D NP 800, value about 250-300)
Unfortunately there's not much to do, except a repair…
So that the USB port does not look like this one can take measures, e.g. With the "Jerk Stopper" tools from Tether Tools
https://www.tethertools.com/product-category/cable-management/
This reduces mechanical stress on the port while the cable is powered.
If you have a "better" camera, e.g. Used by Canon or Nikon, then there are also small essays to better attach the cable in the port, but that's only with the top models of the case, as far as I know there are only Canon's "1 Series" and the single-digit Nikon
I already understood your question. Only who is so reckless and uses no cable in between? Since you can even touch the nose for his own negligence.
But somehow I do not understand… What should it bring, a second cable zwischenzuschtecken? Also, this cable must then but in the socket of the camera and then sells it at some point? And with 1: 1 connected cables, there's now no strain relief.
The socket of the camera is it does not matter if a 1.50 euro intermediate cable or a 5 euro main cable is in it. They do the same with both or just as little, depending on the load.
