CCJ connector

CCJ connector
Close-up view of a CCJ connector manufactured by Hirose from a 1985 Sylvania video camera
Type DIN-style connector
Production history
Designer Sony
Designed c. 1969
Manufacturer Various, mainly Hirose Electric Group

The CCJ connector (short for Camera Cable type J), also known as a J-type connector or an EIAJ connector, 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. 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.

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