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Nikon digicam cables: every plug and cable code we have sourced

Nikon used 15 connector families on the compacts we checked. Find your camera in the table to see which cable codes the manuals name for it; where a maker states nothing, the row says so.

Cable pages: UC-E6 · UC-E16 · UC-E21

Sources checked 2026-10-18. 222 of 224 sourced Nikon cameras have a cable code named on their own row; 2 more are placed only by connector family and marked Partly confirmed. Status labels are explained in the guide.

Connector families

• Coolpix 100: PC Card (PCMCIA) camera, no cable

  Confirmed

  Camera end: none (Type II PC card slot)

  Years: 1997

• Early Coolpix serial (and SCSI) links

  Partly confirmed

  Camera end: unknown (serial connector, shape not documented in sources read)

  Cable codes: (no code found) "serial cables (Windows & Macintosh)"

  Years: 1997-1999

• UC-E1 USB cable for the Coolpix "Video out/USB" combined port (990-8700 era)

  Confirmed

  Camera end: Nikon dual-purpose connector under a "Video output/USB connector" cover (shape/pin count not stated by Nikon; pinouts.ru, a third party, calls it an 8-pin USB+serial dual connector, citing the 990 service manual)

  Cable codes: UC-E1, MC-EU1

  Years: 2000-2004

• Unnamed "USB cable" of 2002-2004 mid-range Coolpix

  Partly confirmed

  Camera end: unknown

  Years: 2002-2004

• UC-E10 USB cable plus COOL-STATION cradle (Coolpix S1-S8, SQ cradle)

  Confirmed

  Camera end: Nikon multi/dock-compatible connector (not described by Nikon in sources read)

  Cable codes: UC-E10, EG-E5000

  Years: 2003-2006

• UC-E6 USB cable (Nikon "USB/audio/video output connector" family, 2005-2013)

  Confirmed

  Camera end: Nikon combined USB/audio/video output connector behind a cover. Third parties call it a proprietary 8-pin mini-USB-style plug; Nikon does not state a pin count in the manuals read.

  Cable codes: UC-E6

  Years: 2005-2013

• UC-E12 AV/USB cable (single combined cable, S50/S51/S700 line with printer dock)

  Confirmed

  Camera end: Nikon dock-style multi connector (shape not documented in sources read)

  Cable codes: UC-E12

  Years: 2007

• UC-E13 USB cable and EG-CP15 AV cable (S52c / S60 / S610c)

  Confirmed

  Camera end: Nikon multi connector (not described)

  Cable codes: UC-E13

  Years: 2008

• UC-E16 (and UC-E17) USB cable, 2012-2016 compacts

  Partly confirmed

  Camera end: Nikon USB/AV multi connector, newer shape than UC-E6 (Nikon: "USB/audio/video output connector"; pin count not stated)

  Cable codes: UC-E17

  Years: 2012-2016

• UC-E21 micro-USB cable (2013-2019 compacts, charge-capable)

  Confirmed

  Camera end: USB Micro-B (Nikon: "Micro-USB connector"); camera port is separate from HDMI micro (Type D)

  Years: 2013-2019

• UC-E24 / UC-E25 USB-C cables (outside 2016, P1100 only compact)

  Confirmed

  Camera end: USB Type-C

  Cable codes: UC-E24, UC-E25

  Years: 2018-

• Nikon audio/video cables (EG-xxx)

  Confirmed

  Camera end: same multi connector as the matching UC-E cable on each camera

  Cable codes: EG-E5000, EG-CP11, EG-CP14, EG-CP15, EG-CP17

  Years: 2005-2016

• USB charging via EH-69P / EH-70P / EH-71P / EH-73P

  Partly confirmed

  Camera end: uses the same USB socket and the supplied UC-Exx cable

  Cable codes: EH-71P (uses UC-E21), EH-73P (uses UC-E21)

  Years: 2011-2019

• COOL-STATION cradles and dock inserts (data/AV pass-through)

  Confirmed

  Camera end: model-specific cradle slot

  Cable codes: COOL-STATION MV-10, COOL-STATION MV-11/MV-11B, COOL-STATION MV-12, COOL-STATION MV-14 / MV-15, Dock Insert PV-12/PV-17, Dock Insert PV-13..16

  Years: 2003-2007

• Other Nikon UC-E codes (not compacts)

  Partly confirmed

  Camera end: various

  Cable codes: UC-E14, UC-E15, UC-E22

  Years: 2003-

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