Using mini-phono for video

[TomBacho]

Hey everyone

I found an old portable DVD player, and after finding the screen works pretty well I want to use it as a larger screen for my nikon d3000, just to have when taking studio shots. the dvd player takes a video line in, using a mini phono plug. My camera uses the same mini-phono jack for video out. I'm wondering what cable I use to connect two mini-phono jacks that are inputting and outputting video. I have tried just a mono mini-phono wire, male on both ends, but no signal appears to be going through. Any ideas?

Thanks

[Cornucopia]

Use a "stereo" mini phono plug (with or without a "stereo-to-mono" adapter, or splitter). Your camera should have come with such a plug. Stereo mini phone plugs a quite common in use with PC speaker connections. Check your manuals, too.

Scott

[hech54]

I just checked....the Nikon(my D90) video cable appears to be identical to the standard stereo mini audio connection. I doubt the camera will send a video signal out through that connection while taking a shot(or even composing a shot via the LCD screen) however. It will probably only send a signal while viewing photos already in the camera or while in slideshow(also viewing) mode.

[El Heggunte]

If everything else fails, try a cable w/ 4-pole mini-plugs.

[TomBacho]

Thanks everyone.
I have tried the mono and stereo mini-to-mini wires while taking and view pictures and menus and nothing seems to be coming up.

And El, I would, but the video input on the dvd player is specifically for video, and I don't think I wanna try and stuff audio in there too.

I guess I'll just keep trying stuuf, and maybe reading my manual would help too, scott

[TomBacho]

This should help. Here are pictures of the video out on my camera and the video in on the dvd player.

Anyone recognize the line in's? Thank you!

[hech54]

The D3000 doesn't even have "Live View" like many Nikon cameras so what I think you are trying to do is impossible. Like I said before...you CANNOT hook up the camera to a larger screen to compose the shot. The only time you will see the picture is after it is recorded to your memory card. Even with my D90 with Live View I cannot hook it up to my television and use the television as a replacement for the viewfinder or the rear LCD screen.

[El Heggunte]

And El, I would, but the video input on the dvd player is specifically for video, and I don't think I wanna try and stuff audio in there too.

This is what I tried to say:

Perhaps the manufacturer(s) of your problematic device(s) used 4-pole jack(s) for the video input/output, and I don't know whether you had already checked this possibility.

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